| Channeled...................15 | |
| is just that, in ignorance, genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower self into a false | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| because if the energy of their feelings were channeled in the right way, even in respect to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| means to reach God, then it is not channeled in the right direction, it becomes overemphasized, and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| how the power currents are treated, insulated, or channeled. All this may serve as an explanation for | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| it must be valid provided it is properly channeled. And then there is something else. Just because | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is. It is often a search for self-expression, channeled in the wrong way, or a longing for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| way, or a longing for self- assertion, also channeled in the wrong way. It is blind searching | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are a tremendous power factor, raging violently unless channeled. They use the word sublimation in modern psychology | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| still immature. How can they mature by being channeled? Do you channel any living organism, a growing | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is what happens to emotions if they are channeled. They may outwardly behave, but that does not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it here. I only want to add this: Channeled emotions are negative emotions manipulated. Only by letting | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a deprivation. The moment these difficulties are not channeled into unreal needs, the pain can be dissolved | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| realize what power you can generate when rightly channeled. Let yourself be inspired and let come what | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in their present form, and be reconverted and channeled in a new and better way. But when | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| time these currents can turn more destructive when channeled into inappropriate and negative directions. Therefore I suggest | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Channeling..................10 | |
| by earning a living with his or her channeling is of course quite unjustified, after having invested | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| question of willpower: The most important step to channeling your willpower in the right direction is in | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not seem that sublimation is a way of channeling these energies along paths that will not be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and often actually means repression. The necessity of channeling powerful destructive emotions exists, of course. But, unfortunately | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not what I had in mind. I meant channeling. ANSWER: What do you mean by channeling? QUESTION | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| meant channeling. ANSWER: What do you mean by channeling? QUESTION: The channeling of emotions. ANSWER: When you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| What do you mean by channeling? QUESTION: The channeling of emotions. ANSWER: When you channel your emotions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you will be disappointed because you thought your channeling disciplinary action has made them into what you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you do not understand their negative distortions? By channeling your emotions, and thus yourself, how can you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you be free? Selfhood is freedom. Discipline and channeling lead away from freedom. QUESTION: If one is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Channels....................86 | |
| much of the energy will go into false channels and thus be used up without sufficient renewal | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| they directed the available energies into the right channels, if they only reset the switch. But only | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| can pinpoint where they run into the wrong channels so as to cancel each other out. Cross-currents | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the more they nourish them through their intellectual channels only, the more they remove themselves from any | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| I say: All inner currents diverted into wrong channels create obstacles. All that lies unrecognized and ferments | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you direct the inner currents into the right channels, the more the respective outside forms will change | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| brief outline. Whenever you wish to use these channels only for contact with the world of God | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you to find an answer to through human channels. Now if all these requirements are fulfilled, you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| spots may be altered and put into wrong channels by the lower self through certain faults that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spirit and not their own and very personal channels, had a good and valuable reason: the people | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| your inner forces exhaust themselves in the wrong channels so that your strength cannot organically renew itself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| life, if I may say so, into different channels. After a while, even though your main problems | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misdirected into wrong channels, it is still there. It takes spiritual awareness | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| When the active forces are used in the channels destined for the passive currents, a congestion occurs | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| passive forces replace the active ones, entering the channels where the active principle should work and flow | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Because you misdirect your power into the wrong channels and it goes to waste. You use it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| as by itself and flow into the right channels; and so will the passive forces. Yes, my | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will be easy to direct them into proper channels. When you are capable of really and truly | 31 SHAME |
| the Spirit World of God, through his own channels. Spirits of the World of God who talk | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the three trends are often directed into wrong channels, aside from imbalance or predominance. For instance, where | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and truth can come to you through many channels. But no matter how sincere the search is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and that which happens to you into certain channels. Let us take the current of self-will. It | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| force will then seep through all your devious channels and affect them, so that slowly but surely | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| consciousness which can direct them into the right channels until they finally dissolve. If hostility and aggression | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Now, if the self-will- current goes into certain channels, subconsciously the person may think: I must have | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and wait for it to manifest through various channels, at the same time using your own brain | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advice, he will just naturally fall into the channels he has prepared for himself by his previous | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and intelligence, will easily be lost in wrong channels and finally become destructive -- even self-destructive. Much | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| more and more rigid and therefore untrue. New channels have to be created, and the very same | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| situations around us, sublimating them into the creative channels which you mentioned earlier? ANSWER: Yes, of course | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| repressed forces can be brought into their proper channels so that they can work constructively for you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| pride that prevents the true opening of the channels that will yield the results it ultimately will | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| are disturbed or thrown out of their natural channels, love cannot prevail. All religions have always taught | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you bring fresh, clean air into all the channels that have been clogged up for so long | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being -- not only partially, but opening all channels which have been clogged up before. No form | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| help you from this side to open the channels. Be blessed again. Be in peace, be in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| consciousness is bound to lose itself in wrong channels. It may be too extreme, or it may | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| or specific feelings have been shifted into different channels or superimposed by other feelings. No matter how | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is so harmful. Shifting original needs into different channels may take various forms, apart from the example | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the need to talk is put into unproductive channels because the little ego fears and wants to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| out one's afflicted area is diverted into other channels, disorder and stagnation follow. The momentary relief from | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| inner forces and direct them into the proper channels. Your intent must be clearly formulated to activate | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| conflict, the pleasure principle will run in different channels. As this happens, mobility will exist without tension | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| switch the energy currents from destructive into constructive channels. Only in this way can the ego become | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| surface. When the meditation is directed into such channels, new vision may come -- vision that was | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is not. It only seems so because these channels had been clogged up due to one's ignorance | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| natural need and desire for pleasure into other channels where they are sublimated. Other, more or less | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| state fulfills a specific function and taps different channels to the universal self. For instance, sleep merely | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| centers and with practices to open the clogged-up channels leading to them. You must understand, my friends | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| do not want to open up all these channels and centers and let yourself flow in unison | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| holds all the potential for turning into constructive channels, for life's source is truly inexhaustible. Since the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| still blind to your negative creations. Sometimes certain channels happen to be unobstructed, but where the blocks | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| your thoughts run in the same unproductive negative channels. Nor do you see that you derive a | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| almost willfully pursuing the same roundabout, narrowly confined channels of thinking and never venturing beyond them. Let | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| How did he turn into those dark, destructive channels? Any such account, given here or elsewhere, is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| use it, build with your conscious mind the channels that can free it, and become very quiet | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| too contracted to open their own individual creative channels. In the first case, they childishly refuse to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and thought processes which are directed into erroneous channels affect all other levels. They always create vicious | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| root in the psyche and open up new channels of spontaneous behavior no longer based on conditioned | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you used to. Your very tears open the channels of joy. Some of you, who are still | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| slows and its form condenses, clogging up the channels. Resistance tightens and thus coarsens the energy. It | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| will merely help you to open your own channels, so that your creative power can pour out | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| spirit to inspire and guide you into new channels, which can show you that you will not | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| sets in. The longing is then put into channels of unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulfillment | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| for you in your life and open the channels to your spiritual self. Feeling the pain will | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| thoughts and feelings can fit into the appropriate channels. One then becomes self-aware and can institute a | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to you in rich abundance. Open your innermost channels and let the flow stream from and into | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| learned. It comes from a different source. As channels open, a new focusing can set in. You | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| friends, that religions, when they first appear, are channels that in some way communicate divine truth to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| a while, even though they often start as channels of truth. All this must and will be | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| obstructing it. They are also needed as physical channels for the further penetration of the Christ consciousness | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- the inner universe. Many spiritual teachers and channels know this, but many have misinterpreted this event | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| nurture the principles that help to establish the channels to your inner God. You also need to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the life process. That tiny spark travels through channels that are infinitely lawful and meaningful and harmonious | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| other sex. Therefore they can open all the channels of feelings and experience fulfillment as well as | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the pitfalls. Many highly developed spiritual innovators and channels have later deteriorated because of the ignorance of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Development on the conscious plane can open certain channels that reach, at least in part, to the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| on the conscious level could, and can, establish channels to the divine. However, when unconscious material remains | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| flow together in your focusing into your inner channels, to the guidance of the will of God | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| and power of the spreading Christ consciousness creates channels all over the world. It requires courage to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| can and will happen if people open their channels and see the unity within the apparent contradiction | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| ways. We have made many inroads through various channels, various types of divine influx, all over your | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| divine reality, of the Christ consciousness seek their channels and break through obstructions. Every one of you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| work out yourselves. You need to make yourselves channels for God's will in every detail. But some | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and all of them together, will open new channels of consciousness in you which, in turn, will | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to some degree with those of you whose channels are open, perhaps only occasionally. But you need | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |