| Unpleasantness..............14 | |
| in your feelings, that if the heaviness and unpleasantness is likely to return, there is no point | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the self in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or disadvantages of all sorts. Thus people create | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| half right, and that is always dangerous. The unpleasantness you are experiencing is only a reflection, a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is regenerating. The operation itself would be the unpleasantness of facing what is wrong with you. It | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| desire got lost in the subconscious, and the unpleasantness became predominant. Then came the recognition that the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wherever you have a conflict, a disagreement, an unpleasantness in life, no matter how apparent the other | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| result through shortcuts in order to avoid the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity clings to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it cannot come about by flight from the unpleasantness of the duality. Instead, the transcendence of pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fears is not eliminated, then acceptance of the unpleasantness must finally come, if it is coped with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| steps out of a reluctance to face apparent unpleasantness. The self does not wish to expose its | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the other's doing right in order to avoid unpleasantness or frustration. Also, the less developed person is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| must go through these feelings, regardless of the unpleasantness, to fully realize the truth of his or | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| self-created prison of your defense against pain and unpleasantness. You become numb and cannot live fully. You | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| purpose of your illusion itself is to avoid unpleasantness -- in this case, confrontation -- and/or risk | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Unpleasurable...............10 | |
| occur as well. But since the knowledge of unpleasurable experiences, or their possibility, is always present, the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| tied in with what is momentarily pleasurable or unpleasurable, or with what conforms or is contrary to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the temporary value system, or they may be unpleasurable yet conform to the temporary value system. However | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| pleasure drive was fixed in connection with negative, unpleasurable experience by guilt and fear, by misconception, and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| destructive feelings and behavior patterns -- created these unpleasurable experiences. That is not really the bad thing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| out the psyche, cause death, and make life unpleasurable and bleak? Why do they believe those attitudes | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can transcend this one instant, no matter how unpleasurable it is. If you go sufficiently deeply into | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| feelings. You must go through your fear of unpleasurable, painful feelings. That which is feared must be | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| for, and you must protect me from all unpleasurable feelings. My hopelessness will convince you that this | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| only what it will do to you, what unpleasurable feelings it will elicit in you. By going | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Unpleasure..................23 | |
| imposes on you the alternatives of pleasure and unpleasure. Let us consider, for instance, work that is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the false belief that it will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasure, and death, is the creation of the idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| are not in reality. Reality means rejection and unpleasure, therefore you escape from it and build your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| hindered, or prohibited and has therefore turned into unpleasure. Now, it cannot be stated accurately that in | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| it cannot be stated accurately that in this unpleasure, pleasure is totally absent. I mentioned this before | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that in your negativity, paradoxically, both pleasure and unpleasure are simultaneously present. This is very understandable when | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| You must feel the pleasure attached to the unpleasure of the problem. This must be a distinct | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Your inability to feel the pleasure in the unpleasure is the result of your fighting against yourself | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you will see the dichotomy between pleasure and unpleasure. You will understand and experience why and how | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| so unique and specific in relation to the unpleasure? ANSWER: This is a very important question and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| this contention unbelievable, for you consciously resent the unpleasure and wish it away. And there is also | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| And there is also truth to this, for unpleasure cannot really be wanted. You cannot resolve this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| psychic processes to feel the pleasure in the unpleasure. Total pleasure is feared for a very important | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a rhythmic smooth motion, in a harmonious way. Unpleasure is an extended cramp-like contraction. QUESTION: The way | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism unpleasurably contracts when it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the less pleasure remains in the psyche, while unpleasure accumulates. Such a person must increasingly despair about | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| conclusion. Experience of pleasure, as well as of unpleasure, cannot ever harm you, unless you believe it | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a result of fearing pleasure, as well as unpleasure -- fearing to be touched by experience and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the ego, as well as from perpetual unpleasure, may lead to unhealthy ego liberation and insanity | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in a state of delight. For tension breeds unpleasure, making bliss impossible. Tension is inevitable as long | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| stand pleasure. Coming from my habitual state of unpleasure, pleasure almost seems unnatural. ANSWER: If you can | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| inadvertently but logically want the opposite -- the unpleasure. Thus you fear the result of your negative | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| escape from it -- this very moment of unpleasure must turn into its ultimate nature: pleasure supreme | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Unprecedented...............6 | |
| is indeed self-perpetuating in its force. It is unprecedented, for there was no other time in human | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| crisis, while those who follow it will experience unprecedented richness and blessing. Let us now return to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a development of consciousness that is almost unprecedented. But in your world only a relatively small | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| become accessible to the general public. This is unprecedented in your history. It has never happened before | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| to the ever-growing flow of communication that is unprecedented in your era. In that way you help | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of the deeper levels of self has reached unprecedented degrees. Even the least knowledgeable people have attained | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Unproductive................30 | |
| is caught up in negative circles of spiritually unproductive currents, it gets depleted and wasted, because it | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| encounter it, they throw themselves into the same unproductive current, thus increasing their guilt feelings. These guilt | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of light. So many thoughts are wasted in unproductive and even harmful brooding. If that same time | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| feelings and self-abuse. The latter are unhealthy and unproductive. You must learn to take yourself realistically and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this truth to rationalize their wrong attitude. An unproductive and weakening kind of self- occupation also does | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| tune into the wrong current is the most unproductive approach imaginable. Thinking you must guard yourself against | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| additional motivations, which may be childish, unrealistic and unproductive. At that point, you don't yet understand why | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it have on others and on myself? What unproductive or even destructive effect does it have on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| understanding is the prerequisite to your ending these unproductive patterns. Your next thought may very well be | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| compensation for all the years of destructive and unproductive living, as well as for the pain of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the present pain of unfulfillment, caused by your unproductive patterns. Consciously you cannot distinguish this. You may | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| only because it caused you to institute the unproductive ways responsible for your present pain. If you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to come out of your present state of unproductive living. As you go through the process of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| natural. It is certainly natural to have immature, unproductive reactions, because everyone else has them too. But | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and understand why one way of reacting is unproductive and unrealistic, while the other is productive and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and more fully, why and how they are unproductive. QUESTION: You wanted to talk about the background | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the word sin because it encourages self-destructive and unproductive guilt. Instead I concentrate on the underlying conditions | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| work. Therefore a productive wish proves to be unproductive, or even destructive at times, if you are | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Another reason why willpower or wish capacity becomes unproductive is that you have split it in two | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| self. Even if the real you wishes something unproductive, and you face this fact -- not necessarily | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| insight and comprehension to find in yourself the unproductive depression with its underlying cause, in spite of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| forcing current. Needless to say, this remedy is unproductive, even destructive. The forcing current prohibits a free | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| is entirely repressed and overcompensated by a weakening, unproductive pity. The pity, then, makes you feel absolved | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| 3) repression of instincts which are as yet unproductive and self-centered in their immature state, but are | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the need to talk is put into unproductive channels because the little ego fears and wants | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| assume, anticipate, and therefore either fight in an unproductive way against losing, or resign yourself to it | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| back, which makes it appear safer to be unproductive, barren of aspects naturally oriented to include others | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| giving up destructiveness, cruelty, evasion, or any other unproductive way of life, or whether the letting go | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| close up against life, that make you adopt unproductive and often even destructive attitudes? Tension must always | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of how your thoughts run in the same unproductive negative channels. Nor do you see that you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |