| Clinging....................24 | |
| reality. Furthermore, the fear may also come from clinging tightly to the ego with its self-pity, vanity | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| bound to make mistakes. The child in you, clinging to Utopia, believes you must never make a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to avoid stagnation in your concepts. It avoids clinging to ready-made words which have by repetition lost | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| immortality through creation. It is another way of clinging to life and fighting against death. This type | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is overcoming the unconscious desire to remain a clinging, protected child, to refuse the apparent hardship of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and appeasement, try to find not only the clinging helplessness, but also the hidden resentment that God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| encouraging false religion, even if the weakness and clinging to authority happens to take a consciously secular | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| sense of humiliation you will develop humility. From clinging appeasement and blind obedience -- often without understanding | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of relinquishing your illusion. Secondary reactions derive from clinging to illusion and not daring to see what | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| them comes from the repression of needs, the clinging to illusion, and the subsequent inability to relinquish | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| more into awareness, you will uncover your persistent clinging to illusion and false hope, your reluctance to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the case than that I advocate a childish, clinging, belief in God. Both are stages. In each | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| into the trap of set habit patterns; of clinging to old concepts and ideas that once gave | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| have to be fully aware of your parasitic clinging to others, of identifying with others and depending | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it you will know that you have been clinging to an unjustified hope, and that you did | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| self, from which you alienate yourself further by clinging to the superimposed conscience. You find yourself in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| psyche you are quite free and function without clinging to superimposed demands, standards, or rules as they | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| time he is reluctant to give up his clinging to childish dependency which may never be manifested | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| they pretend that life is dismal and hopeless, clinging to others to sustain and save them, rather | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and a negative situation? Or is it the clinging to the entire complex, out of fear of | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the universe is real love, not the binding, clinging love you often give. Real, genuine love allows | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| have practiced a certain degree of self-confrontation without clinging to the old patterns of self-delusion and illusion | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| on the other person because you are still clinging to the illusion that giving and receiving are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Clings......................23 | |
| it, maybe because something in you resists and clings to the comfortable, undisciplined old attitude. You are | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| people can be divided into two groups. One clings dogmatically to a set of beliefs without much | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| closer to the spiritual experience itself. When one clings so tightly to the ego, it is not | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| shall find an area of your being that clings to life only in order to avoid death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity clings to such words as there is no death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| different from the way of the religionist who clings to faith out of fear. As I explained | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fore. Yet a part of the personality still clings to the supposed safety of the negative reaction | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| must be a part in you that still clings to the old destructive way, in spite of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| certain thing that one can rely on, one clings to it and does not want to give | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| protect health. If humanity at this time still clings to them as a spiritual necessity, it shows | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| him and is thus responsible for him. He clings to this authority in the hope of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in a new stage, while he outwardly still clings to old habit patterns; patterns he adopted in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man prays, but also to certain concepts he clings to, in his conscious mind, while inwardly he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and security can come from others, so one clings to this hope. This is a main reason | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| than a puny but sluggishly obstinate one that clings to the personality in a most damaging fashion | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and dying is a temporary illusion. If one clings to life because of the fear of death | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of humanity's confusions, its state of consciousness which clings to destructive emotions. In other words, the earth | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| As long as one opposes one side and clings to the other, self- realization or liberation -- | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| diminishes as the person progresses. But the beginner clings to the unconscious hope of finding the causes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| often very subtle ways in which the ego-self clings to separating attitudes -- perhaps not wanting to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| In spite of the ego's extreme discomfort, it clings to that very condition, the very state that | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| tragic because unnecessary, and ironic because the ego clings to what it hates and what hurts it | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| go must take place, but the manifest consciousness clings to it and opposes the purifying movement. These | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Cloak.......................6 | |
| will gradually fall off, like an old outworn cloak. Creative forces will flow out of you of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will shed it like an old, dirty, heavy cloak you have no use for. Your potential will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| It is clothed in a seemingly more acceptable cloak, but it contains as hardened a defense structure | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| itself. It is not deliberately dropped like a cloak, nor are constructive feelings produced by a similar | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| your selfishness. But your mask has put a cloak over your selfishness and your little meannesses. That | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the higher self is interwoven with the masking cloak, the false good ness. In your pathwork many | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Clog........................3 | |
| it were not? ANSWER: People so often deliberately clog the channel of their intuition. They are afraid | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| tomorrow because too many misconceptions and false fears clog up the channel. Giving a full chance means | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and stubborn mind can halt the process and clog up the channel to the divine self. So | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Clogged.....................6 | |
| air into all the channels that have been clogged up for so long with error and confusion | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| partially, but opening all channels which have been clogged up before. No form of self-expression needs to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| only seems so because these channels had been clogged up due to one's ignorance of their existence | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| disturbed -- the centers close up. They become clogged. The process of self- realization thus also means | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| center will be open. It will not be clogged up by the ego's need to be in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| available. Abundance constantly floats around you, but your clogged energy system erects a wall that closes you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Closed......................71 | |
| do this only once. If the door is closed, truth cannot get through, and the door is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| truth cannot get through, and the door is closed when one is not completely ready to accept | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to receive it. You deliberately keep your eyes closed. My dear friends, it is only the first | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Whenever this is the case, the doors are closed to inspiration coming from the spirit world. Nevertheless | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| half-heartedly like a child, going into them with closed eyes, wishfully thinking that the price can be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| discover many resources and possibilities that are still closed to them and which would give many many | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yes, but not in the capacity of a closed and retracted entity. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But this very same person may be utterly closed to another manifestation while the person who does | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you courage and strength to pass through the closed door within yourself, so as to gain light | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your private work, would either find you completely closed up, or else it might crush you. Resiliency | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| bound to make you more egocentric and more closed up toward others, to yourself, and to the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| It causes you to go through life with closed eyes, and bound hands and feet. In short | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a number of streams that you have deliberately closed off because you thought that doing so would | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| be given up unless awareness enters into heretofore closed areas. Then, and then only, can you come | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| formulation of your intentions. Thus your universe is closed, and your fences are up. Institute your own | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| absence of pleasure, the door to pleasure remains closed. Once you have learned that the absence of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| friends why a number of doors have remained closed for them, in spite of much progress and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| problem. But when you find all the doors closed and life seems to show you quite clearly | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| possible to attain it, but the door remains closed. You discover that you are terrified that you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| activated, the doors to the benign universe are closed. This is not because some forbidding authority decided | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| them, you will find the door no longer closed. You will feel it swing into the unlimited | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| for truth that could never enter into the closed chambers of your dark, dismal misconceptions about life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| honesty, you can unlock the door which has closed your access to transforming the negative pleasure and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| make receiving equally impossible. A vessel that is closed cannot be filled any more than it can | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| close the very door you hate to see closed. Since you do not wish to give to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| in fear these centers are necessarily cramped and closed, and the life force cannot penetrate them. When | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| going to be connected with breaking through the closed centers? ANSWER: Yes, indeed. The physical work has | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a state of cramp because their centers are closed. Your misconceptions, fears, and negativities create this cramp | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fear to expose? Therefore the center must be closed partly or completely. Hence you actually do experience | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a full capacity for living and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity and lack | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| for unhappiness, negativity and lack of feelings. How closed the centers are determines exactly the degree of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to be disaster. Hence fear and tension; hence closed life centers; hence unhappiness and unproductivity in every | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| sufficiently free, positive, open, but the unfree, negative, closed areas are neglected. The actualized universal powers will | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| oriented this way in some areas, while remaining closed and unwilling in other areas. You will experience | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| reverberates and bounces back, thrown back by the closed energy field of the other. The latter is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| when one person is open, the other is closed, and vice versa. Only steady development and growth | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the abundance of universal life. Then you are closed in and must therefore remain poor. You cannot | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| building a protective armor -- which is the closed, contracted state. Thus a larger vicious circle becomes | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and help. Thus they spread evil by being closed to truth and love, to giving and receiving | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| obstruct all their goals and desires. They find closed doors to realizing their talents, their needs, their | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a state of avoidance, a state of being closed to one thing, which creates a tense, urgent | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| yourself. In these days, people often keep a closed mind because they fear ridicule from others. Thus | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| It does not pay. You had better remain closed up. Just imagine how your self-victimizing attitude will | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is all one mind. Other people's minds are closed books only as long as you hide from | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and generalizations which form very limited and fixed closed systems. Conscious and/or unconscious identification which forms an | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| systems. The tightness of holding on creates a closed energy system. This can be easily observed on | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| fear -- the creative spark is squelched. A closed system always creates resistance, even though temporarily some | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| from the other. Love cannot blossom in a closed energy system that stems from distrust, non-love, power | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| who give you what you look for. A closed energy system with an attitude of tightly holding | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| with the riches of the universe. In a closed energy system you believe you are a pauper | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| There is an enormous difference between creating a closed system by manipulation of others, of facts, of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| energy system. You can at best create a closed energy system in which you directly or indirectly | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| universe to give to you because of the closed energy system you have established. It is exactly | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| one that creates hopelessness and pain, you have closed your inner and outer mind to any alternatives | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that you deliberately wish to keep the doors closed. Always assume that you may be mistaken, your | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| room for this possibility. If the mind is closed to any new idea, none will come. So | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| as a burden because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit there is a certain | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the degree you have grown and expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| mind has widened; however, it is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| therefore necessary that you begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately dissolve it; you live | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you can see how you keep the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of learning and becoming, the channel will remain closed. For this amounts to cheating, and God cannot | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other words, you, as a receptacle | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| really halt the movement, which then hits a closed channel that is alien to its own benign | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be made. The rounds or circles are not closed, they have openings. As you discover a new | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a mistake. So your mind becomes fixed and closed to the truth. When the contracting principle expresses | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| as the one who is over-severe, hard, and closed to the feelings of the heart, to compassion | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| free and liberated when anything within you is closed up tight? Can the justifying of your ancestors' | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the picture. It opens doors that were heretofore closed. It loosens up hardened soul substance. The mind | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and grow. They are very stiff, defended and closed. Yet the ability to surrender is an essential | 254 SURRENDER |
| ultimate nature -- opened all doors that were closed before -- not because God punished humankind and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |