| Twist.......................8 | |
| of these very violations. For the more you twist these laws, consciously or unconsciously, the more they | 38 IMAGES |
| you finally reach a point where you cannot twist them further and must eventually change the direction | 38 IMAGES |
| must therefore perforce be finite. You cannot infinitely twist the law. Your violation of divine law finally | 38 IMAGES |
| happiness is conceived. Such guilt is always a twist of the emotions and is connected with the | 38 IMAGES |
| your unconscious emotions. Whenever such violation happens, you twist the life force that could flow through you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| exists only in a subtle way, suffices to twist your motives and make them unhealthy. Hence your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Other sick currents also affect the image and twist it into a particular direction. The image says | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| are able to recognize what causes this complete twist in your psyche and how it manifests in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Twisted.....................28 | |
| tendencies from the lower self, the original shade twisted, colored, or dirtied. When messages from the higher | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| person's unconscious, not only do sick, wrong, and twisted currents become apparent along with ignorance and shortsightedness | 18 FREE WILL |
| of the human soul are hardened, constricted and twisted, and they remain rigid. Therefore all these healthy | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| in the universe, whereas every fault is a twisted strength. A complex too is a twisted strength | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a twisted strength. A complex too is a twisted strength, but twisted in a way other than | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| A complex too is a twisted strength, but twisted in a way other than a merely simple | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| exists. Out of the image come sharp and twisted forces, and these would be the complexes. QUESTION | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| proper concept and see how it works when twisted. Do not, however, allow the right concept to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| wrong thinking, your wrong trends and attitudes, your twisted emotions that have brought you nothing but misery | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| given to another person as long as these twisted conditions prevailed in you. By giving freedom, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| lack of development, then the laws become broken, twisted, and distorted, and communication cannot take place. Thus | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unable to make a constructive choice. A festering, twisted condition prevails in the psyche leading to a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| an advantage exists for you in maintaining the twisted condition, and in what way do you believe | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| lacking, you must experience extreme anxiety, because the twisted condition has a function in your erroneous, unconscious | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| but will lead to finally giving up the twisted, damaging defense mechanism. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| lived his life in this way, he is twisted and distorted, and loves the rejection rather than | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the involved situation of surplus intensity and painfully twisted, conflicting emotions. You may try with all your | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| about a non-existent and unnecessary deprivation. The third twisted corridor in the labyrinth of the mind is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| capacity to express healthy anger as opposed to twisted, tortured anger. When insecurity makes a person too | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| induces conflicting feelings. Healthy anger makes you stronger, twisted anger, weaker. Healthy love is all-embracing and enriches | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| soul from the outside. This again is a twisted and erroneous approach, for you do not need | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and refusing itself. This causes a hard, bitter, twisted pain because such pulling away is not organic | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| put it more accurately, the positive force is twisted, disturbed, converted, distorted, and thus becomes a negative | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| which you are tortured, anxious, numb, hopeless, and twisted in pain -- another reality. This level of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| level of reacting -- where you fluctuate between twisted anxiety, torture and hopelessness, on the one hand | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your pain, this secondary pain must become bitter, twisted, and unbearable. If you accept and feel the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| defense, as you all know -- an unbearable, twisted, bitter pain that stems from a forcing current | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of energy and of consciousness. When energy is twisted, it produces a destructive manifestation. Its frequency slows | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Twists......................6 | |
| and not because your images keep acquiring new twists so that life is becoming too much for | 38 IMAGES |
| well. Such a misinterpretation is caused by psychological twists. In other words, if a man rejects decision-making | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| unawareness of them, you will find all the twists and unresolved conflicts within your soul, and therefore | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| severe reactions when you really get to these twists? ANSWER: When there is such a strong reaction | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it into many unnatural and laborious forms. These twists and turns alienate you from your center, where | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| moment, which may be so disguised by complicated twists in the minds of everyone involved that, again | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Two-way.....................4 | |
| of how life on earth presents itself in two-way splits. Humankind thus expresses a twofold split that | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| though this phenomenon is not truly understood. The two-way split does not apply to the animal, plant | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| all must form one nucleus, manifesting your personal two-way split. Full realization and recognition of this basic | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| but as practical experience. Education must be a two-way street. First of all, it must bring out | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Typical.....................36 | |
| of all created beings. This is understandable and typical of human nature. Your logical conclusions can be | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it causes you acute embarrassment. This is a typical image reaction, my friends. And if you expect | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| would like to give an example that is typical. Many people say: By constantly thinking about myself | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| way, harmonizing rather than conflicting with the accepted typical trends of the sex in question. One of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the fact that this is one of those typical wrong conclusions you will often find in the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of Scripture. ANSWER: Of course. It is a typical human misunderstanding to think of this in terms | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and causes damage. This, for instance, is a typical and frequent act of emotional killing. There is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| order to receive love, such people develop several typical personality trends and patterns of inner and outer | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| come across similar emotional reactions. Here is a typical example of how the instinct of self- preservation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| where one should actually hate. This is a typical example of how unrealistic all negative emotions are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ruthlessly domineering toward weaker ones. This is a typical manifestation of how these solutions alternate, according to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| procedure is drawn out. Here you have a typical example of how dangerous and fallacious it is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is your dilemma. This, incidentally, is a typical example of one of those conflicts described before | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| sadism? And, on the other hand, is it typical of the missionary? ANSWER: As to the first | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is confused. The question you asked is a typical example of such confusion. An omnipotent Creator and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| life blindly, as though wearing blindfolds is a typical symptom of self-alienation. Another is looking for and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| not mean outer conduct, certain characteristics that are typical for you, although they, too, may be connected | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you can be sure that this is a typical manifestation of the no-current. That is what prohibits | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| levels simultaneously, as it were. This is a typical experience a person goes through in the course | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| such. You become more and more confused. A typical and important example of this state is the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| together. What I have given you is a typical description of a positively working magnetic field, or | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| your daily life. What I described is a typical example of unified, intuitive understanding: of knowing the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you must trust your intellect to avoid the typical dualistic confusion. The unitive state can be reached | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| intact and one's freedom unhampered. This is the typical conflict of false love, which, in turn, is | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| The dualistic approach to life leads to a typical misunderstanding of intensity. The idea exists that the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| know it, battle with it. It is a typical dualistic confusion that apparently makes admitting an unpleasant | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and shame, self-assertion with unacceptable aggression. These are typical examples of false unifications that must first be | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| with them. Now, what you describe is so typical. You negate everything about your destructive impulse. You | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| now stuck in battling with one of these typical either/or problems. How can you really want to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| I will punish you. This attitude is very typical. The more concealed and the less consciously expressed | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| yours. In a recent lecture I outlined some typical manifestations of states and experiences in which the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| courage, patience and commitment. Here you have a typical example of a dualistic confusion that arises when | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| go on deceiving myself. This is a very typical obstruction. It is very important not to allow | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| that you cannot pinpoint. We have here a typical dualistic picture. We have apparently two opposites -- | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| contracting movement. A short life span is a typical demonstration of this principle. So you see, my | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| necessarily beyond the stage of split-off sexuality. The typical marriage of former times, which I described earlier | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |