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| about the emphasis the church places on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. What is your comment | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| does not, cannot, and will not sacrifice the bodily pleasures for the sake of a spiritual life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure principle than is the spiritualized rejection of bodily pleasure. In a mature and healthy soul, the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the most negative way, to food, to certain bodily functions, perhaps even to some ideas, or art | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| You have direct control over certain of your bodily functions. You can move your skeletal muscles at | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| apparent determination of your outer will. The inner bodily functions are not governed by outer control. This | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| manifest because the body blocks are removed. When bodily existence is transcended, the identical feelings will manifest | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| penetrate you. It will not directly affect your bodily ailments. Something more fundamental will take place, which | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| which can, if you wish, also affect your bodily symptoms. But this will happen from within yourself | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| within you, inevitably creates a physical manifestation, or bodily condition. It therefore hampers not only your spiritual | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| when you begin to sense that a specific bodily tension comes from a feeling of hate and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| not exist without this connection. Neither could your bodily manifestation exist without the life you have on | 228 BALANCE |
| world of matter that you experience through your bodily senses. On this level of consciousness, divine manifestations | 228 BALANCE |
| Thus the thinking is the feeling, is the bodily sensation, is the prayer. This wholeness represents the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Body........................509 | |
| entity has a wider view than in the body and understands that the purpose of life is | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| spiritual obstacles, but also physical manifestations in the body: tiredness, weakness, and even sickness can come from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| recognized and dealt with. When humans shed their body and enter the realm of spirit, most of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of your unconscious currents when you shed your body. Then the conflict must be entered. This will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| does not have to incarnate in a human body anymore, has merged so completely with the Thou | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the capacity to free their spirit from their body without losing their consciousness. Thus they had certain | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| believe that they exist only temporarily because the body or external shell will decay, or perhaps because | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| spirit is alive. When you see a dead body you often say, Life has gone out of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| definite form and see it as a foreign body within the self, you can begin to build | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| your personal spiritual friends -- whether in the body or not -- and by opening yourself, you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| a mirror, a projection of the real. The body, which houses the spirit, brings about a separation | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the separating wall falls because you leave your body behind, the universe that exists in every single | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| human being. Then you really feel that your body limits you, and you wish to break the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a being is not dependent on whether the body is male or female. The basic principle of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| easier to accomplish that the medium's own spirit body leave for a time and give room to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| on earth, where you are still in your body. As long as the body encloses the spirit | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| still in your body. As long as the body encloses the spirit and imprisons it, the suffering | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| often quite soon after you have left the body, and this is important to understand, but you | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| know that you have not only a physical body, but also various subtle bodies, each representing something | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| create very definite and substantial forms. Each subtle body, as well as the physical body, has an | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Each subtle body, as well as the physical body, has an aura: the vibration and emanation of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| an aura: the vibration and emanation of that body. Thought-forms or feeling-forms reflect their image in the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in perpetual motion. The aura of the physical body shows physical sickness or health, and all other | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| show in the aura of the respective subtle body. Each living being has a higher self or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| matter, not quite as dense as the physical body, but infinitely denser than the higher self. Thus | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| mere fact that a spirit leaves its physical body behind does not indicate that it can necessarily | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Taking a drug once will not harm your body or spirit. But once you start, there is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| writing too, as we can see the human body. But again, only if there is a particular | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that does not supply the essential factors the body needs in order to remain strong and vigorous | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| many spiritual laws governing mastery over the physical body, and this person is not the only one | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| fixations, all this is not part of your body; it is part, however, of your subtle bodies | 18 FREE WILL |
| and self-will: all this was symbolized by the body of Jesus. The resurrection of his spirit signifies | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the spirit world after the death of the body and also during sleep when the body rested | 21 THE FALL |
| the body and also during sleep when the body rested. From the spirit world they would receive | 21 THE FALL |
| evil in them, the material shell of a body took so much energy away that the teachings | 21 THE FALL |
| show that intelligence is not in the physical body. The ability to think, to create, has nothing | 21 THE FALL |
| is damaged, which would affect the corresponding subtle body. I think most of you know that all | 21 THE FALL |
| just as all feeling is in another subtle body. The subtle bodies, as development proceeds, will integrate | 21 THE FALL |
| integrate and eventually become just one: the spiritual body, where all purified and perfect thinking and feeling | 21 THE FALL |
| integrated into the last, ultimate and eternal subtle body. Until this is accomplished, there is division, each | 21 THE FALL |
| function belonging to a special layer or subtle body. The physical layer has as its sole function | 21 THE FALL |
| therefore take place in a different layer or body. QUESTION: Could I hear a few words about | 21 THE FALL |
| liberate latent powers and healing forces for your body and soul. If you experience this regularly, then | 21 THE FALL |
| in your way while you are in the body. But when I am out of the body | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| body. But when I am out of the body, then I can see thoughts. But mostly I | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have understood its healing nature for your mind, body, soul and spirit, then you have accomplished a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual development. You spend time on your physical body, feed it, rest it, and cleanse it; you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| time is necessary for that than for your body -- then fears, doubts, and questions bar your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| high degree. Something in the chemistry of your body and soul begins to change with such clear | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and advice in the spirit world when your body is asleep and your spirit is free; this | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| with other spirits, who are out of the body, or with other human beings who are also | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| see how badly you need spiritual nourishment. Your body is nourished, as is your intellect and even | 31 SHAME |
| can befall you, even while still in the body, in the world of matter. To reach such | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| entity to be born is growing in the body of the mother in such a way that | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| reason. The physical shell grows in the mother's body, although there is no spirit in it, but | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| been treated in the manner described enter the body of the baby. Then the incarnation has been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| lies between the divine spark and the physical body translates the longing to love into a longing | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| It is up to the individual, in the body or as a spirit, to breach the wall | 36 PRAYER |
| bodies, as well as eventually in your physical body. Most people are not capable of cultivating compassionate | 36 PRAYER |
| The basic test of any entity in the body or out of the body comes at the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| entity in the body or out of the body comes at the stage of its development when | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| able to perceive it while still in the body. I promised you that tonight I would continue | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that when you die, not only your physical body disintegrates but the outer subtle body as well | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your physical body disintegrates but the outer subtle body as well at some later time. None of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| knowledge will be gone after the outer subtle body disintegrates. But if you use it to integrate | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| You all know that shock causes numbness. Your body, as well as your nerves and your mind | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| left closer to the surface in the fluidal body. And according to these problems, parents, country, and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| this force that is a blessing for your body, your soul, and your spirit. It is often | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| moment the animal slips out of its physical body, it is awake and free. It is happy | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to you, our brothers and sisters in the body, who are courageous enough to do the one | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| entirely independent of its physical manifestation. The physical body is an outpicturing of the soul currents, and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| in peace, my dear ones, be blessed in body, soul and spirit. Be in God! 47. THE | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from the subtle bodies and penetrates the physical body. It reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods, diseases | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods, diseases of body and soul, the basic character type that you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| healing force works in the elements, in the body, as well as in the soul. Whenever something | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| die, yet would not remain in the physical body either. For your matter is petrified life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is always a healing force -- for your body, your mind, your soul, and for your spirit | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| can you truly become whole and healthy in body, soul, and spirit, in your feelings and in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| spirit? ANSWER: You have not only a physical body, but several subtle bodies. Each subtle body represents | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| physical body, but several subtle bodies. Each subtle body represents a certain aspect of the human personality | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| bodies dissolve, until finally the only original spirit body remains. The various subtle bodies differ in degree | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The densest is the human form, the physical body, at least from your sphere upwards. There are | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| shed, soon after the so-called physical death, another body of matter subtler than the physical one. Then | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the soul-body or the feeling-body remains. In this body are all your emotions, impressions, attitudes and trends | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is sleeping, does the soul stay with the body or does it leave temporarily for revitalization? ANSWER | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are various subtle bodies that leave the physical body in different states of unconsciousness. Usually in sleep | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| sleep the feeling-body is removed from the physical body, sometimes more, sometimes less. It produces the pictures | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the feeling-body remained during sleep in the physical body, sleep would not be profound; it would be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feeling-body or soul is out of the physical body. That is the physical rest. The feeling-body can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| more removed is the feeling-body from your physical body. QUESTIONER: I have known some people who can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are still hidden. QUESTION: After death, the physical body disintegrates. And after that one of the subtle | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| does. Is that the etheric or the astral body? ANSWER: Well, my dear, it is unnecessary to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| question I had in mind. If the spiritual body is just one body, does that have any | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| mind. If the spiritual body is just one body, does that have any feeling and emotional personality | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Trinity; whether it is represented as a whole body of the divine world comprising all the holy | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human child wishes to remain a child in body, it cannot succeed. Natural growth takes place. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the male. Understanding the anatomy of the human body should translate into a deeper understanding of the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deeper understanding of the emotional level. For the body is always a symbol for the spirit and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not to become one-sided. This is healthy for body and soul. Today, this law cannot have the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long and strong enough, eventually also in your body. Inner errors cause you to fear life, therefore | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear, indirectly creates a weakening of the physical body, and directly an unconscious desire for sickness and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may do, when you are completely relaxed in body and mind, is to close your eyes and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| occasional rest during which the spirit leaves the body. This happens regularly during sleep. But if the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is not properly managed between the spirit, the body, and the mind. It has many damaging effects | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to all of you envelop and penetrate your body, soul, and spirit, so that you open up | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| often unconscious means. Imbibing matter, symbolized by Jesus' body which came from man, means to say yes | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| explained. Pain is always felt in the emotional body. QUESTION: Will you explain the saying of Jesus | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| at least so far as the outer subtle body is concerned. All these influences that later form | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your sojourn in the Spirit World while your body was asleep. You know that often you experience | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| bodies leave that particular area of the physical body? ANSWER: Sleep, as well as anesthesia, or any | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| several of the subtle bodies leave the physical body. The etheric double, as it is often called | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as it is often called, is the subtle body most similar to the physical one. It is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sleep, the etheric double remains in the physical body, while the astral body leaves. If sleep is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| remains in the physical body, while the astral body leaves. If sleep is very deep, other layers | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| course, they are still connected with the physical body by a cord, or elastic spiral-like band, also | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| local anesthesia, the respective organ of the subtle body will remove itself from the physical body. 77 | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| subtle body will remove itself from the physical body. 77. SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to prepare the physical food so that your body can assimilate it. The intrinsic meaning of a | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| standstill, or stagnation. The feet involve the entire body -- or person. In psychological terms, applied to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your real organs manifest in the physical body. QUESTION: I am very confused about all the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is, even while you are still in the body. Many aspects of civilized life stand in the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you know that one day life in the body will cease. All little issues ultimately lead to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experience life and joy while still in the body to the same degree. This is the message | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| until the time when you leave your earthly body. You have daily opportunities. Whether you can now | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| deepest sense, while you are still in the body. Pure, unadulterated life can be had only if | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| by purity: an insipid state that rejects the body. The body is part of the spirit, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| an insipid state that rejects the body. The body is part of the spirit, and the spirit | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the spirit, and the spirit part of the body. Both form one whole. That is why Jesus | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is why Jesus Christ appeared as a human body, to show that the body is not to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| as a human body, to show that the body is not to be rejected or denied. If | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will be resurrected in life -- in the body -- by the flowing life force which will | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in this present physical life -- meaning the body and the pleasures and sensations of the body | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| body and the pleasures and sensations of the body. I would like to ask a question concerning | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the freed-up life force must flow through the body, it makes the whole person more receptive and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| right now while you are still in the body. When you muster the courage of becoming your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that destroys or endangers life. Just as the body needs health to live, so the soul needs | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| entry of the spirit's soul-body into the physical body. We have learned that it is at the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a very substantial and decisive way, enters the body at the time of physical birth. If this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| science that there is not just one subtle body, but several. Actually, the division goes further than | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| important major step of full incarnation into the body, enabling the entity to live on earth, occurs | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in principle, similar to the unification of the body of matter and the substantial part of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| destructive. As a child you possessed an immature body and mind and therefore, quite naturally, an immature | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| immature emotional structure. Most of you gave your body and mind a chance to grow out of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have a false need for food. If your body has received all the food it needs to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| time. Be blessed, each one of you, in body, soul, and spirit. May the renewed strength you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it, almost as though it were a foreign body, before you can convince yourself of its destructive | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| changes constantly, is constantly in flux. Even your body is not the same as it was several | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you, be blessed in spirit, in soul, in body. May these words help you to continue your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| human being still held down by the physical body. I have hardly made any progress beyond recognizing | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| achieves this feeling, there is still the human body one is in and the human fear on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| noticeably, in this or that part of the body. This is the physical side. As to the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you are releasing poisonous substances into your physical body. You are limiting your range of thought and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the result. Defensiveness not only damages your physical body, but limits your thoughts, your range of emotions | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| life, than defensiveness. QUESTION: You say that the body releases poisons which damage the physical system. On | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the past cannot be entirely eliminated from the body. Whether this is or is not the case | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| symbol of the inner. A combined purification of body and soul is often healthy, provided it is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| You feel as though you have lost your body. ANSWER: Yes, it is as though someone else | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| spiritual spheres where you live without your physical body, you are in a life where you do | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| not manifest suddenly, after you shed your physical body, but it can be experienced occasionally, and increasingly | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| increasingly so, while you are still in the body. Such experiences depend on how you use the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Do you channel any living organism, a growing body? If you did you would cripple it. And | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is that some great spirits, either in the body or without body through human mediums, have passed | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| great spirits, either in the body or without body through human mediums, have passed on great wisdom | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| how young a person is who leaves his body. If you truly think and meditate about these | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| difficulty of communication. Even with people in the body, you will no longer find it difficult to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| physical pain in a certain area of your body, you are bound to focus all your attention | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it localized like any other organ in the body? ANSWER: No, it is not localized in that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not localized in that sense. It is a body, consisting of matter very similar to your earth | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and have often heard, it is a subtle body. When I spoke of roundness, it does not | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| like a ball. The surface of the subtle body can have all the attributes I discussed. You | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and flesh, but the surface of the subtle body of the soul has much greater variety than | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| possibility of contributing toward the growth of this body of truth, but it is the facing of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| brain is rarely aware of it. The physical body is incapable of the experience because it is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| need to shed the burden of the physical body, of gross physical matter. You could not sustain | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| subtle bodies are always the cause; the physical body is the effect. With great love I now | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| same applies to the anatomy of the physical body. It, too, is an organization. The well- functioning | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It, too, is an organization. The well- functioning body requires many working parts. If one is out | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| out of commission, the efficacy of the physical body will be impaired, or physical life will cease | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the spirit by far exceeds that of the body. Once this thought is truly understood in its | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nature. It is in the breathing of the body, in the movements of the planets, in the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not moved, they atrophy. Part of the physical body is losing its life. On the mental or | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| It atrophies, just as the muscles of a body do when the body does not move. Thinking | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the muscles of a body do when the body does not move. Thinking is a movement. On | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of all personality levels cannot take place. The body and the mind may develop, but the spirit | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| individual who is a part of the bigger body -- humankind. There are aspects within the individual | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| who grow into adults are not mature. Their body has grown up, but their psyche limps behind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is an actual fact that the individual human body, soul, and spirit is identical with the body | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| body, soul, and spirit is identical with the body, soul and spirit of humanity as a whole | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the individual forms a part of the larger body, humankind. True individuation occurs when you gain access | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| grows, the individual creates a new kind of body matter -- soul matter -- thus being drawn | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| interpret it. Be blessed, all of you, in body, in soul, and spirit. Be in peace, my | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| principle prevails in the healing process of the body. When you cut your skin, you have to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| through the liberating event of shedding the material body, this mass image produces such fear that the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| do not at this moment reside in a body, but belong to this sphere by their overall | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| their real self is not just in the body, their perceptions will widen and the matter of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the realm in which your personality and your body now live can you then deeply comprehend your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| distant future when you no longer possess a body. I do not speak of this state in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| principles would be to realize that the human body is a direct result of the personality which | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| attitudes, emotions, actions, all have their effects. The body with its environment, the life and life situation | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| mentality and personality and character. Not only your body, but your life conditions are a result of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the process of birth is as if a body were built by forces outside the personality. This | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| are an immediate result of yourself, including your body, your country, as well as every other factor | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| perceptions form a nucleus, almost like a foreign body, in the soul. The spiritual being as originally | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is the nucleus of distorted perceptions, this foreign body, that prohibits the soul from being in its | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Human beings struggle and fight against this foreign body in wrong ways. They sense its existence and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| see that they struggle against acknowledging this foreign body. They often find themselves in an interim state | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| up the armoring that has covered this foreign body so far, and not yet being quite able | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| its existence entails. The fact that this foreign body is denied causes more misery than the admission | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| love. Instead of ridding themselves of the foreign body, which can only be done after close examination | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| existence, people still act as though this foreign body did not exist. They continue to superimpose more | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| so difficult for you to acknowledge this foreign body? Not only because of your fear that others | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of the underlying basic fear that the foreign body may be your ultimate self. At this stage | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| only the superimposed veneer that covers the foreign body gives you the feeling that you have love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| real nature, because you anticipate that this foreign body is the final answer to who you are | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the point where you clearly feel the foreign body of misconceptions to be just that. Many of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the beginning of such a path, this foreign body seems to be all there is, your natural | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you can feel the boundaries of this foreign body, even while occasionally still being immersed in it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| through in the course of transcending the foreign body and beginning to sense another reaction coming from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| exist. Only in isolated spots does the foreign body blur the inner, real being. There are also | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you run from yourself, the more this foreign body grows. QUESTION: As I see it, this love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| vastly overlooked. People feel helpless toward their own body. There is a considerable area where you have | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| feel helpless, weak, afraid. The relationship between your body, your feelings, and your personal life circumstances is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| outer will is exerted. To summarize, all voluntary body functions are under the direct control of your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| But there is a vast area of your body the outer will cannot directly reach. These functions | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| no power over a vast area of your body, and are at its mercy. The same applies | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| I do not even have jurisdiction over my body or my own reactions and feelings; and if | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| more control over the faculties of your inner body and psychic processes than you have over your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| life. Unfathomable fate seems to control your inner body, your spontaneous reactions, and a number of outer | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| be established between your consciousness and your inner body, your spontaneous feelings and your life? The same | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| The same relationship exists in life as between body and feelings. You have direct control over certain | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| have that effect. But then, as with the body and the world of your feelings, there is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| direct control ceases. Hence the relationships with your body, your inner world of feelings, and your outer | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to your outer will -- for example, inner body processes -- you overexert yourself, weakening your energies | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| understand, however, that all inner processes -- inner body, inner feelings, and inner life, manifesting in fate | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| which then controls all inner faculties -- including body, feelings, and apparent fate. The outer consciousness must | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |