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| to make. The last stage and deepening of consciousness is of course the most difficult to reach | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| who can bring their innermost feelings into their consciousness and are willing to recognize that these feelings | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in their spiritual development and recognize God in consciousness enter into a new life. This can happen | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| unconscious, they need to be brought up into consciousness. Quite apart from the spiritual truths and the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to honestly confront yourself, bring the unconscious into consciousness, and commit yourself to pay at least one | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| energy to further the upward development of human consciousness, this person will be free not only on | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to strive for the attainment of a higher consciousness. The attaining of a higher state of consciousness | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| consciousness. The attaining of a higher state of consciousness is the utmost grace, to which the door | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| at these currents in the light of one's consciousness, one will continue daily, even hourly, to push | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| does not survive? Or does personality and individual consciousness remain in existence in some form? ANSWER: First | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to explain in some of my lectures, the consciousness of the I is expanded and intensified with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| their spirit from their body without losing their consciousness. Thus they had certain spiritual experiences. Since transcending | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| couldn't even have been registered and brought into consciousness, nor could the attempt ever have been made | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to look at a sensitive area hidden from consciousness within themselves. To accept or dismiss disquieting words | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the Fall, so far back that the everyday consciousness does not know it anymore. The spirit remembers | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| yourself and it has become part of your consciousness. From the understanding comes empathy and that is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the unconscious negative currents will eventually penetrate into consciousness. Here they can be dealt with, transformed, and | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| dealing here with two entirely different levels of consciousness. To accomplish something within you, you have to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and wants to convey this knowledge to your consciousness. The other part is the lower self, which | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is to make your subconscious known to your consciousness. But the system of positive thinking works the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| long as these currents are not brought into consciousness, so as to be examined and dealt with | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| knoll edge was only temporarily blurred from your consciousness while you were incarnated. People who give in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| wrong direction because you use it without clear consciousness. There are many people who rightly say that | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| exist in radiant matter. And certainly there is consciousness! But there is no life like your material | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| self. Combined with your higher self, your will-directing consciousness must win. But do not be superficial about | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you penetrate your willpower into all layers of consciousness -- you should not even try to think | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do something toward reaching a higher degree of consciousness and therefore also of happiness. This example may | 18 FREE WILL |
| you can begin to redirect your motivation in consciousness and the inner willpower can flow freely. Once | 18 FREE WILL |
| By self- purification alone, you will raise your consciousness to such a degree that you will be | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| are exactly what hinder the raising of your consciousness. Any imperfection is a hindrance. I cannot stress | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| way, and the other that way. And your consciousness does not know it. This creates wars on | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a long-lost friend and draw it out into consciousness. You may ask: How do I go about | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| taken out and brought into the light of consciousness. Without this essential step there can be no | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| into an intuition that will reach your entire consciousness. But as long as you live instinctively, and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| extremely important for you to allow into your consciousness the reactions and feelings that will come up | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your lower self and bring it into your consciousness -- being careful not to allow it to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| such an act, you have already raised your consciousness to a pretty high degree. Something in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| long as this reality is not brought into consciousness, you cannot handle it properly. So the only | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| do not particularly strive for higher forms of consciousness and happiness. Their choice may often be an | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| have worked yourself up to a state of consciousness where information of this sort is good for | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| beyond, but also its incarnations. As your spiritual consciousness is raised, you will come to discern in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| leaves the body--in other words, during sleep. Also, consciousness will gradually and slowly awaken in an incarnated | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| through the treatment of certain other fluids some consciousness will return as the human being grows while | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the human being grows while other types of consciousness must remain hidden. Thus, one person will grow | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| certain adjustments will be made, and without gaining consciousness, birth will occur with the other parents, chosen | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| mind and help you to achieve a profounder consciousness of yourself. Ask yourself: What do I mean | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| down the emotional knowledge until it disappears from consciousness. The more emotional knowledge is hidden, the more | 38 IMAGES |
| the misery of the lower, darker planes of consciousness. Only when you begin to face your own | 38 IMAGES |
| make it all the harder for your willing consciousness to come to terms with it. In your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| an unconscious layer. In fact several degrees of consciousness and being exist about every conceivable attitude, about | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| attitude that may so far have escaped your consciousness. Only after you have gained some understanding of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| long before you have discovered deeper levels of consciousness. This feeling cannot be forced; it cannot be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| The person who has a lower degree of consciousness, however, believes that happiness results from giving in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| numb, even to the extent that you lose consciousness temporarily or have other symptoms. Thus the child | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| long as the image is not lifted into consciousness. Thus is it possible that you discover conclusions | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| one's childhood and penetrates the irrational layers of consciousness. Merely remembering is not enough. Without some procedure | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| this was part of your mind, below your consciousness, but still part of your mind, your reaction | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to control, govern, and direct your life in consciousness, and thus be the captain of your ship | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| conclusions that more primitive people act out in consciousness. QUESTION: What happens in a case like the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| problem could then be treated right away in consciousness and when the child grows up, the conclusion | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Thus you live in a higher degree of consciousness than when you act without understanding why, merely | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| by step, you will experience a change of consciousness, a change of inner concepts when your emotions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the existence of the bad motives from your consciousness. I would also like to discuss another possibility | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| other beings, spirit or human. A person whose consciousness is not raised to some degree will easily | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you step across the borderline between unconsciousness and consciousness with a higher degree of awareness. The true | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| child when it reaches a certain degree of consciousness. Elders, parents or parent-substitutes, and later on teachers | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just manifest differently. This process means raising one's consciousness. You will then also recognize the necessity for | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from behind the wall and transpose them into consciousness. All of you know the process by which | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| inevitable step, you have to bring them into consciousness. Only after that can you free yourself from | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| QUESTION: Science says that life is light and consciousness. Does that correspond to what you said tonight | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| recognizing where, deep below the surface of your consciousness, your emotions are self- oriented in a way | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| their habit of using the many layers of consciousness to hide reactions that do not accord with | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the soul, barring them from the light of consciousness which can direct them into the right channels | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| conclusions. Only by lifting these emotional reactions into consciousness can you realize this. Then you will become | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| certain cleansing process and you build a certain consciousness. You learn to cultivate unselfish thoughts. Your thoughts | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| concepts and ideas have to evolve clearly into consciousness; nurse the awareness of them in your surface | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| nurse the awareness of them in your surface consciousness, but realize that they are false. Formulate the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| It is a message from the superconscious into consciousness. Subconscious forces help to bring it about. The | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| self can penetrate better and manifest into your consciousness. In a way, the two kinds of knowledge | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. Once the unconscious aim is understood, the consciousness will see that enacting the compulsion does not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same in manifestation. The latter is pure consciousness, it is alive, thinking, feeling, willing, endowed with | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misunderstood about this state is the thought that consciousness ceases, individual will ceases. This is not so | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems so at the moment. The higher your consciousness is, the more absolute will this conviction be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| This will widen your horizon and raise your consciousness to the necessary maturity. The truth will then | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| main guilt which you keep locked away from consciousness. As long as you do not become aware | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| changed as long as it is hidden from consciousness. In the second place, the first impression, causing | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| connects. QUESTION: I read a book called Cosmic Consciousness. It says, The loss of the sense of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| most striking characteristics of the state of cosmic consciousness. What does this mean? ANSWER: Your world on | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| When a person has raised his or her consciousness and perceives inklings of absolute truth, he or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| no absolute reality. The moment you raise your consciousness, you are free of the illusion; it no | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you see error in others, with this raised consciousness you will see through it, you will understand | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| way or be satisfied with a slightly raised consciousness, affording them better conditions, but they would lack | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of spiritual development, of a higher state of consciousness. Those who have succeeded in working themselves through | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| succeeded in working themselves through to a higher consciousness know they are immortal. They know so because | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| more. The lack of this raised state of consciousness may make life on earth difficult; the outlook | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| last lecture you said in connection with raised consciousness that we will no longer be frightened of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead of forbidding yourself to think, do the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| great inner strength, but you will raise your consciousness and increase your awareness in a general way | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as the forcing current operates undetected by your consciousness. Thus you first have to let people free | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as this overall insight is not in your consciousness, remnants of the old reactions continue to smolder | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it to a small degree by raising your consciousness, through eliminating your inner conflicts which is a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Spiritual philosophies and teachings use the term raising consciousness. It means exactly that. If you visualize such | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a form, you can imagine that as the consciousness is raised, the form comes out of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you are a universe unto yourself, the universal consciousness can only be gained by this very process | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you lift the fog. You cannot gain this consciousness by concentrating on things you learn with your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the person who has a lower degree of consciousness believes that happiness results from giving in to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of incarnations is completed, then the degree of consciousness is so raised that it is no longer | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| wants to give and show freely to your consciousness what the inner problem is. It projects these | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| hidden knowledge is not correctly interpreted by your consciousness. This voice merely means to convey: You are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still follow the old pattern, unbeknownst to the consciousness. If this is not realistically envisaged, the person | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and view them in the clear light of consciousness. Unfortunately, humanity is made up of nine-tenths pretense | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do exist on your plane of existence and consciousness. They are, at the lower level, cooperation, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a unified core, on the next level of consciousness splits into two opposites. This underlying core is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| memory of a life in another state of consciousness, when you knew nothing but supreme bliss without | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| long as this confusion is not brought into consciousness, you cannot begin to find your way out | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| process of growth can commence only when your consciousness has learned not to avoid it. Conversely, a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Only this work can bring them into your consciousness. Since both distortions are intrinsically self-centered, the personality | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| repressed emotions. These have to reach the surface consciousness before they can be properly assimilated and dispensed | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| animosity, and other negative emotions will rise to consciousness. These negative emotions account for the inhibition of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| this, and whenever such imperfections trickle into your consciousness, you do not forgive yourself. You hate and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| needs, reaching into a deeper layer of human consciousness must also be brought out, acknowledged, and properly | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you will find out, once all this reaches consciousness, that there is no reason to feel contempt | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| than to receive it, enters more into your consciousness. The need to relate to and to understand | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your feelings to reach the surface of your consciousness. This does not necessarily mean to act on | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of truth about yourself has been brought to consciousness, truth must also be approached from the other | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| when you first began this path. The new consciousness may emerge only after a fuller understanding of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| The higher the level of the other people's consciousness, the more aware they may be of the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |