| Deaths......................9 | |
| example: A person is responsible for many cruel deaths, like in a concentration camp. Since this example | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| human being who does not die many little deaths every day. Your attitude toward death in all | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to experience it first in your daily little deaths. When your will is not done and you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| wait for physical death, because you die many deaths every day, in all your little ordeals and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| meant by coming home. You may die many deaths, one earth life after another, but if you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| road must be taken. You must die many deaths, right now, every day in your life, in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| fearlessly. How can you die all these little deaths? Follow exactly the process I described: let go | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| live in peace, but in fear, and their deaths will not be the organic process I have | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and make inner listening impossible. Premature and violent deaths, as when young people die in war, often | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Debated.....................3 | |
| principle. Human religions and human philosophies have always debated this question. One opinion holds that God is | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| revised, it can be rejected, it can be debated. The word is already the finished product of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| that is taken for granted, never challenged, never debated and therefore uncorrected. And in that way it | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Debilitating................12 | |
| no longer vulnerable in a negative, dangerous or debilitating way, but in a positive, wonderful way. It | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| possession of her inherent powers, surrender must be debilitating and dangerous. Since men and women express both | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your system. The latter may have a temporarily debilitating effect on the personality. The former enable you | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not willing, this will no longer present a debilitating frustration for you. You no longer depend on | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and therefore appears indirectly is that much more debilitating. The fear of feelings is perhaps the most | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| becomes self-pity, hopelessness, depression. These emotions are indeed debilitating and destructive, whereas the direct, original feeling of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| pre-psychology, religion had indoctrinated man with a distorted, debilitating guilt feeling: false guilts, fear of a punishing | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and create, often on a vast scale, painful, debilitating, and frustrating experience. Then you use this fact | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| You no longer need the group in a debilitating way; you need the group out of love | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the pain of real guilt is never a debilitating process. It is a life process, it is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| men and women -- to recognition of the debilitating effects of this attitude and a consequent libertinism | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| causing pain to others. This then grows into debilitating guilt and indirect self-punishment. You also need to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Debris......................6 | |
| will finally sweep the river free of the debris. Is this not a fact in nature? The | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| soul-currents. By fearing and not looking at the debris of your past hurts and their subsequent destructive | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is nothing to fear when you allow the debris to reach the surface. When you begin to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| if this stream brings in its wake some debris to begin with. But is it not much | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is it not much better to let the debris float freely where you can see it? Seeing | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| hence their thoughts and emotions are cluttered with debris, and are an obstruction rather than a help | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Debt........................7 | |
| her development and she thus pays off a debt. You all know what the implication of tests | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to try again, then you pay God the debt you owe Him; then you are worthy of | 31 SHAME |
| linked to the entity, so that a karmic debt may be paid off. Difficulties and advantages in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Perhaps a person will straighten out a karmic debt, but will not overcome a certain weakness or | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Other, nonkarmic effects can be eliminated. A karmic debt manifests as a single event. An effect that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the same spirit, whether it concerns a karmic debt or whether it applies to causes started in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| some instances the paying off of such a debt does not happen in the succeeding incarnation, but | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Debts.......................8 | |
| an advancement and an evening out of karmic debts and helps to undertake your further development with | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| Only after many incarnations and worked off karmic debts -- and often after some suffering and a | 22 SALVATION |
| in the spirit world and sees he has debts to pay, he has much to learn. He | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| specific mission. There may also be certain karmic debts which have to be paid off. In most | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and unsound. The temporary pain of exposing your debts, your deficits, comes from the wrong conclusion that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| people live above their means; they coast on debts; they cover one hole with another, newly created | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| decent livelihood; they depend on others and accumulate debts. However, the inner process of your pathwork in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| assets, not on deficit; on reserves, not on debts; on fullness, not on emptiness. For those of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Decade......................3 | |
| your suffering, for the phantoms you carry about decade after decade, and often incarnation after incarnation. You | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| for the phantoms you carry about decade after decade, and often incarnation after incarnation. You all strive | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the next month, the next year, the next decade and century. But since mind can always be | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Decades.....................14 | |
| will see many more things in the coming decades. Tonight I wish to speak about the influence | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| on this path of self-recognition, usually a few decades in your present life have elapsed, during which | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your inner problems with you not only for decades in this life, but for many centuries before | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| not automatically disappear. They may linger on for decades and even centuries. When such beings then notice | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is so embedded in us after so many decades of learning the false attitude. Wouldn't prayer change | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| old patterns have been in existence for years, decades, and often through several lifetimes in which you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| sufficiently receiving has been overemphasized in the last decades, while the frustration of not sufficiently giving has | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| result of what you built yesterday, last year, decades, or even centuries ago. The immediacy exists, nevertheless | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| accumulations of centuries and millennia -- not just decades. Each life incarnation presents the task of cleansing | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| create life experience, is very regrettable. The next decades will bring a change in this. You always | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| knowledge you have acquired in the first two decades of your life, or later. It has nothing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| so secret intentionalities can be accounted for, often decades later? How can someone's life be adjudged long | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| to change considerably, especially in the last several decades. Individuals began to choose partners freely, motivated generally | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| levels has also greatly improved over the last decades. Psychological approaches have created a greater awareness of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Decay.......................9 | |
| temporarily because the body or external shell will decay, or perhaps because the species is dying out | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to the spirit world would not happen by decay, old age, and sickness or accident. It would | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| sickness, and the world of matter, bound to decay. There is struggle and work for daily subsistence | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it, because the future also means death and decay. While they strain into the future, hoping for | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to a stellar system, a planet, or the decay of a leaf on a tree. To put | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| cannot enter the physical system. Thus gradual illness, decay, and physical death come about. You may remember | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| attitudes fear truth and love. These fears induce decay, which finally manifests outwardly. Hence, what first appears | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to deny life, love, pleasure, happiness; to court decay, waste, and pain. The part of your universal | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| frequency so high, that it can no longer decay. It has been wholly made into spirit. It | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Deceased....................4 | |
| to yourselves in their attitudes. They may be deceased people who mean well and are not particularly | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will then have for all creatures. So, some deceased people still feel very much bound to their | 18 FREE WILL |
| eaten go into the same sphere as a deceased pet? ANSWER: It does not make any difference | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| QUESTION: But wouldn't contact give strength to the deceased person? ANSWER: No, no. People who are oriented | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Deceit......................4 | |
| necessary that your emotions be pure and without deceit. In order to accomplish this, it is imperative | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| more the personality is willing to dispense with deceit and courageously look at what is, the more | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| then be that the world is built on deceit, pretense, negation. Even though such thoughts are hardly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| among different governments, where most of the distrust, deceit, and strife exists. As long as humanity fails | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |