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| you always cling to the false belief that death and pain are the worst things that can | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| happen to you. I refer here to physical death, which must certainly not be considered as punishment | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| must certainly not be considered as punishment. Spiritual death is the worst, and it stands at the | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| road of least resistance. QUESTION: What is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death is to give yourself over | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| resistance. QUESTION: What is spiritual death? ANSWER: Spiritual death is to give yourself over to the forces | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| the land of the dead. This is spiritual death. But in no way is this state eternal | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Western concepts about the continuity of life after death. Which one is right? Is it true that | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Is it true that there is nothing after death, as the Indians say, that after repeated incarnations | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| be completely happy, without sickness, worries, or even death as you experience it. Yes, my friends, even | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| as you experience it. Yes, my friends, even death! If people were really perfect -- and this | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| as sun follows rain, as life must follow death. And this will bring great happiness into your | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have been at the time of your so-called death. But when you begin to develop further, you | 18 FREE WILL |
| personality makeup is now, it will be after death. So when a person dies with a fanatic | 18 FREE WILL |
| or she will not feel any differently after death, and may thus be bound. But if a | 18 FREE WILL |
| Whatever you are at the time of your death, you will feel, experience, and live afterward, and | 18 FREE WILL |
| discussing now was the state of being after death. This applies here too, of course, as it | 18 FREE WILL |
| was to show symbolically through his life and death the course and the stages of development for | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| law, after having gone through the valley of death. Thus, they would be more godlike than ever | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| would go to the spirit world after the death of the body and also during sleep when | 21 THE FALL |
| for Christ has atoned for them through His death. This, of course, my friends, cannot be so | 22 SALVATION |
| sure that the reason for the life and death of Christ will now make sense to you | 22 SALVATION |
| my friends, about His sufferings and about His death. But if you read the Bible now, your | 22 SALVATION |
| the reality of all this. After Christ's physical death, He returned to the world of spirit. Having | 22 SALVATION |
| that Jesus appeared to his disciples after His death, it was also a form of communication. There | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| His emissaries. And when He said before His death, There are many things I cannot tell you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further from God, will also be lost after death -- not forever, but for as long as | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work with the truth. QUESTION: What happens after death to a person who was an atheist, for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| know from the spiritual point of view that death is not the worst thing that can happen | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not the worst thing that can happen. Spiritual death is the worst, not physical death. Every person | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| happen. Spiritual death is the worst, not physical death. Every person is judged individually, and the judgement | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| with human law in the case of a death sentence for a murderer? ANSWER: From the spiritual | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| ended in another type of sudden and violent death. In such cases their fluid bodies may be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| as the baby is concerned, after its physical death there will be a comparatively uncomplicated process whereby | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| correct that birth, and time and form of death, are determined by an unchangeable destiny? ANSWER: No | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| last moment. And the time and circumstances of death can also be changed. As I said to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or solve a psychological problem. The time of death does not vary according to which plan is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is fulfilled, but the time and manner of death varies according to which plan has come true | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the time, as well as the form of death, can vary according to which of the many | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| This would explain the astrological riddle that sometimes death does not occur according to the usual progressions | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the life span and the elimination of child death. Since everything is so beautifully planned, how is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| you behave like a person so afraid of death that he commits suicide. That is what you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| QUESTION: What happens in a case like the death of the many children in Chicago who burned | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| spirits come into the spirit world, is a death like this not a tremendous shock? ANSWER: Well | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the spirit preferred to choose a violent, unpleasant death and get it over with quickly, so as | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| great deal by enduring a violent and unpleasant death. Would you prefer that to the other alternatives | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of his freely chosen fate. His life and death occurred according to his will and desire. It | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and effect. He chose this life and this death because he realized it was a necessity. His | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will not only better understand Christ's life and death, but you will also be able to better | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| world, is not determined by the kind of death the soul has gone through. The sphere is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to go through the process of birth and death. He or she will be an eternal spirit | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is eternal and therefore all life is eternal. Death is but an illusion. An inanimate object you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you have heard from various sources of teaching, death is not necessary in principle and one day | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is not necessary in principle and one day death will be eliminated. Fully self- realized people will | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| You also shed, soon after the so-called physical death, another body of matter subtler than the physical | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| emotional reasons that are still hidden. QUESTION: After death, the physical body disintegrates. And after that one | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| subtle little reactions? Instead of indulging in the death fantasy, you can punish your fellow-creatures in many | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| inwardly. The greater significance of his life and death in the entire Plan of Salvation I have | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and even the word karma. QUESTION: Is accidental death also brought about by one's own causes? ANSWER | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also brought about by one's own causes? ANSWER: Death must come to every human being at one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very fact that humanity has to go through death and birth and death and birth and so | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has to go through death and birth and death and birth and so on and on, is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many basic misconceptions in the human race. Whether death comes one way or another depends on the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from the bonds of earthly guilt and earthly death and to awaken us to a new life | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| think that because the question of life or death exists in international quarrels, it is more important | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further questions. Is it a personal fear of death -- which, again, is human and understandable? What | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is good, loving, benign, friendly. There cannot be death, hate cannot win out. There cannot be chaos | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| roots of all your doubts regarding life and death, God and man. This will make you strong | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doubts, such as the continuation of life after death, the fear of death, the fear of life | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| continuation of life after death, the fear of death, the fear of life, the fear of other | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the sense of having to endure physical death after each life and being reborn and again | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and being reborn and again going through physical death, but also in the sense that sorrow, unhappiness | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| disappointment, hurt are each a little bit of death whenever you experience them. As long as you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| pain. It is also bound to bring physical death. Part of the acceptance of life is the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| life is the acceptance of inevitable pain and death. The healthy person will not unduly fear them | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| such fear, or very little fear exists of death in any other way, there must be a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| other way, there must be a particular reason. Death can be more painful in a slow consuming | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Murder may be a quicker and less painful death than other forms. If other forms of death | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| death than other forms. If other forms of death are more or less accepted and not unduly | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| force and not so much about pain and death. If the infant in you matures, you inevitably | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| respect, your attitude would be somewhat like this: Death and pain are unwelcome. One day death will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| this: Death and pain are unwelcome. One day death will come to me. I do not think | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| fear life, therefore, often unconsciously, to wish for death in various degrees. The unconscious desire for sickness | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious desire for sickness is a degree of death. The weakness, resulting from tension and fear, indirectly | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and directly an unconscious desire for sickness and death. As the emotions heal, they integrate with the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an unpleasant truth? QUESTION: Yes, about disease or death. ANSWER: That depends very much on the case | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| later period. Furthermore, those who are afraid of death can in younger years push this thought away | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| out of pain, as Jesus demonstrated by His death and spiritual resurrection. That is the symbolism of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| coarser texture than the other subtle bodies. After death, this etheric double disintegrates -- not always immediately | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| subtle bodies back. When this cord is severed, death occurs. In local anesthesia, the respective organ of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your will is a matter of life or death. Not to get it represents the abyss; not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are acts of killing. The terms life and death do not merely mean the physical manifestations, as | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ceases to be a question of life or death to satisfy the child's craving, you will not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a few moments? ANSWER: No. What you call death occurs when the silver cord is severed. But | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| many stages of unconsciousness which may outwardly resemble death, but they are not really death because the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| outwardly resemble death, but they are not really death because the cord is not severed. QUESTION: Could | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| lesser ones. The great opposites are life and death, happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| problem, calling it the life instinct versus the death instinct, or the pleasure principle versus the reality | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| single core. Life on earth necessarily involves physical death. Even if we remove many of life's miseries | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as unnecessary, as created out of confusion, physical death still remains. It is still a mystery, unknown | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| logical steps, we see that the fear of death creates the world of duality and the world | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fulfillment. This leaves us with the problem of death. It is by dealing with it that we | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| has tried to cope with the problem of death for as long as it has existed. Unfortunately | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| who want to avoid confronting the reality of death on this earth. Another attempt to deal with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Another attempt to deal with the problem of death is through negation of the very thing for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your way of coping with the problem of death. The atheist/materialist and the superficially religious who wants | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and the superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith are two prototypes. Neither realizes | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of your inability to come to terms with death. Modern psychology claims that this deep-seated longing stems | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| come face to face with your struggle against death, or anti-pleasure, if I may call it that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in which the unconscious attempts to cope with death. Both are based on negation: one by evasion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of. In both alternatives you struggle desperately against death. You struggle no less when you deliberately choose | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You struggle no less when you deliberately choose death out of cringing fear, in a negative spirit | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| It is an altogether different choice to accept death in a healthy way, out of strength. When | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| out of strength. When I use the word death, I do not mean merely physical death. I | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| word death, I do not mean merely physical death. I refer to all the negative aspects of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that opposes your pleasure drive. In that sense death also means loss, change, and the unknown that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| many little deaths every day. Your attitude toward death in all its aspects determines your ability to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and experience pleasure. The healthier your attitude toward death, the more the life force can flow through | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is to detect how much you struggle against death. Become fully aware of this, just as you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| two ways you have chosen to cope with death -- evading it, or rushing into it. Both | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to the degree that you desire. You say, Death, or loss, is unavoidable anyway, so I might | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| between two unsatisfactory and damaging attempts to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped attempts bring you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| healing, but in how you choose to accept death. Acceptance mixed with fear and negativity -- both | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as you do not learn to cope with death in a healthy way. You sense that the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not have to wait to experience actual physical death in order to learn how to die. Not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your occasional conscious fear of anything that connotes death help you, but also all the other aspects | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you, but also all the other aspects of death that comprise daily living. If you do not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| come after you have learned to cope with death in the fullest sense. As long as your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |