| Disciplines.................9 | |
| self-recognition, or is there any value in certain disciplines that call for resolutions, or promising oneself not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or learned through any teachings, prescribed practices, or disciplines. It is the natural outcome of the courage | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| practices have succeeded in providing adequate training and disciplines in this respect, but only rarely are they | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| methods to force-fully reach this goal, many spiritual disciplines do not pay sufficient attention to those areas | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a woman. It can be expressed through spiritual disciplines within an individual, merging the masculine and feminine | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| as a result of specific exercises, methods or disciplines. The change of consciousness happens entirely due to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| as well as by the Western mystics. These disciplines negate worldly fulfillment and consider it an antithesis | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| The pursuit of detachment leads to all the disciplines of asceticism and to deliberately-imposed suffering. Yet, valuable | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to be found in inner space. In some disciplines this goal may be directly mentioned, or it | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Disciplining................5 | |
| as well. The emotion-type fears that curbing and disciplining his or her nature will eliminate something valuable | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| cause has ripened, so to speak. QUESTION: In disciplining yourself when you reach the point when you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| by curbing the will, by manipulating thought, by disciplining emotions. When they achieve a temporary state of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| himself disappear; then letting go of himself and disciplining himself both function in a unifying way. Any | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of such pathwork. You would be incapable of disciplining your lives. And where you fail to exercise | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Disclaim....................3 | |
| happenings in your life, as long as you disclaim responsibility for such happenings, you cannot even begin | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your struggle against what is in you. You disclaim it, professing to accept willingly what is, but | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| need to be. But all too often you disclaim the truth that you are indeed much further | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Disclose....................3 | |
| discover a determination not to love will also disclose that coupled with -- or rather causing -- | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| The universal life principle then becomes freer to disclose itself, and you become freer from fears, shames | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| honesty with the self; it can choose to disclose all previous self-deceptions. It can cast off all | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Disclosed...................5 | |
| hurt and disappointed than by the parental circumstances disclosed here. It is important to recognize this element | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| seemed like protection from annihilation will now be disclosed as what it really is: burden, suffering, imprisonment | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the false, pretended love has been removed and disclosed as weakness and desire to placate others so | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be able to earn if the secret were disclosed. Keeping secrets is therefore always, in the final | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| will not come about if the secret is disclosed. Keeping secrets also avoids the effort and responsibility | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Discomfort..................36 | |
| listen to them? Do you feel a slight discomfort, perhaps in a deeply hidden place, or even | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| inner echo to a message which causes you discomfort, be very careful before rejecting it. Ask God | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in order to avoid putting up with a discomfort. True, it takes a lot of overcoming and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self-indulgence. So the why of the trouble and discomfort of self-knowledge has to be established. These questions | 21 THE FALL |
| spirits in darkness, it creates a pain or discomfort of some kind, again according to their development | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| act imaginable. We are concerned less with the discomfort to the individual than with the crippling effect | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| yet you cannot do so without experiencing extreme discomfort. This impatience at the delay engages you in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be able to change yourself without pain and discomfort. This cannot be done, of course. Further intellectual | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the dam holds, you will feel a vague discomfort. You will feel inhibited without understanding why, and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to remind you that whenever you feel inner discomfort, it is not sufficient to look for the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the problem, because the difficulty, expressed in your discomfort, affects all other manifestations and expressions of your | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as warning signals, rather than avoiding them. Avoiding discomfort proves that you are still convinced that your | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in a new guise. You ascribe your emotional discomfort to factors outside of yourself, which is, in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| enables one to watch others suffer without feeling discomfort oneself. Much of the world's evil is caused | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you detect a slight feeling of anxiety and discomfort at the very idea of allowing the best | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this pleasure -- with all its pain, guilt, discomfort and insecurity -- you forfeit the good feelings | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| either, you may explain away the feeling of discomfort with all sorts of reasons. You may even | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| troublesome life situations that seem to explain your discomfort, because not knowing the reason for a pain | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| but they seem nevertheless real in all the discomfort they give. The opposites people struggle with create | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be a protection against the pain, fear, and discomfort with which the individual was unable to cope | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| opportunities to do this. Your many reactions of discomfort with yourself and others are the clues. Examine | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| so vulnerable? If you heed the pain or discomfort that you suffer now and decide with all | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the approach we use. The greater pain and discomfort that appear to be a byproduct of this | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| its resistance. In spite of the ego's extreme discomfort, it clings to that very condition, the very | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to impose a false order, which heightens the discomfort and the disorderliness. It is as if you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| ones. The smallest neglect causes disorder and creates discomfort in the soul. This rule applies as much | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| it may manifest, begin to focus on your discomfort about it. Allow yourself to feel how much | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| are not, search inside and see the indirect discomfort. Suddenly you will recognize many little actions and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| movement, even if it seems to bring momentary discomfort or hardship. Of course that is an illusion | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| or hardship. Of course that is an illusion. Discomfort and hardship exist and must manifest, whether or | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| areas that give the person the most pain, discomfort, and guilt, whether or not this is consciously | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| distrusts and suspicions, in order to avoid the discomfort of self-confrontation, you create a greater split between | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the light comes near them, they feel strong discomfort and they misinterpret it. It brings the greatest | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new order. Only when you consider the momentary discomfort of the temporary imbalance in this light will | 228 BALANCE |
| of others' negativities filled you with anxiety and discomfort. It threatened you the way your own lower | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of your soul is exactly what causes all discomfort, pain, suffering, anxiety and discontent. Surrender to God | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Discomforts.................4 | |
| for that reason that you should heed all discomforts as warning signals, rather than avoiding them. Avoiding | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to other matters | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| loved one. You hope to avoid all risks, discomforts and pains by building an illusion into which | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and yet your thoughts were drifting to certain discomforts you might occasionally experience. Negativities, dissension and destruction | 254 SURRENDER |
| Disconnect..................6 | |
| the creative process again. In other words, they disconnect themselves from the cosmic, creative flow of giving | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Whether you will with awareness or whether you disconnect from your will makes no difference. Your willing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| how you mold the life substance. When you disconnect yourself from your wanting to be negative and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| values, as long as you adopt them, always disconnect you from your true desires, from knowing what | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| fear of death, your lack of faith, and disconnect your awareness from the inner source of this | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the resistance to seeing how you wish to disconnect from the consequences of lower-self attitudes, to that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Disconnected................75 | |
| may or may not be conscious of, is disconnected from the causes that brought about the original | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| an end but a new beginning. Distorted and disconnected from the real self, one's outlook is so | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you. The manifestations of both at first seem disconnected from the self. Only when you accept that | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and of what they miss, but they are disconnected in themselves from the mechanism that wishes the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| clarity of the aim? And where have I disconnected the aim from where I am at this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| ego-self, so that you become more and more disconnected from your innermost being and its life-giving powers | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| feel alienated from your self, if you feel disconnected, anxious, depressed, hopeless or bored, there is in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| are meant to. To the extent you have disconnected yourself, you must yearn for this way of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is often totally unconscious, so that one is disconnected from it and helpless about the result -- | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| your own consciousness first. For those who are disconnected from their unconscious, this idea seems at best | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than to flee from experience which is apparently disconnected from yourself. The only course of action is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| receiving. It is not an esoteric, otherworldly pleasure, disconnected from the body. It involves physical pleasure as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| so much material to remain unconscious and thus disconnected from you. If you do, destructive processes will | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| all frustration and suffering are caused by being disconnected -- as you know and I so often | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- which we call the ego -- is disconnected from the total being, the universal self. This | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| spontaneous, indirect manifestations of growth are just as disconnected. If and when the latter appear, perhaps as | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the messages of your divine nature. You are disconnected from your vital life center. You flounder in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| no inhibition and no conscience. They were too disconnected from their fellow creatures to sense others' pain | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to fear. It is only when you are disconnected from this reality and begin to doubt or | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| your condition, and therefore you feel increasingly more disconnected and hopeless. In order to hide from others | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| state. Most of the time he had been disconnected from this knowledge, so that he felt himself | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| forms life experience, which then appears to the disconnected, unaware human being to be haphazard destiny. When | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| fall again into the old despair of being disconnected from inner reality. The despair may have been | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Even the energy of mind seems often quite disconnected from the source of its consciousness. Perhaps you | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| have indirect effect, which at first seems so disconnected from its source that comprehending the link between | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the ego sees and experiences only finiteness: the disconnected, meaningless universe in which it is senselessly suffering | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and more desirable life. But when you are disconnected from the creating power in you, when you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that exists -- the all- consciousness. You remain disconnected from it because you are too afraid of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not having any pain, you will be so disconnected and tense that you will not even recognize | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| they express themselves in the isolated ego state, disconnected from deeper inner reality, they become distorted and | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you are put. It seems totally separated and disconnected from your inner processes. These are the same | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| farthest removed from reality, all events seem totally disconnected from you. Then the world seems a fixed | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| actually are removed from you. They then appear disconnected from your voluntary processes. This is a very | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| understood, which is to bring unification between the disconnected aspects of your consciousness, and also to refine | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| are willing to perceive the help. When the disconnected mind forgets the greater truth of being, the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you and you to it, you will feel disconnected from it. Perhaps as a result of my | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| said, is nothing but the illusion of a disconnected view of reality. In the framework of this | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| it ignores this fact and seems to be disconnected from it. You seem to be an isolated | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| outer consciousness. The task of every fragmented, apparently disconnected aspect of consciousness is to realize its true | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| holds this potential for expansion; even in its disconnected state it contains every aspect of divine reality | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| process of spreading divine consciousness and reuniting apparently disconnected aspects. There are many different terms that designate | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of the limited state of consciousness of the disconnected aspect -- the personality -- and in this | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| starting with death may seem senseless from this disconnected view. But you will see that you can | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| fulfillment and connection. They fear dying as a disconnected, disharmonious process. It is, of course, utterly false | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and, above all, with the conscious mind completely disconnected from the inner will. The conscious mind may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| has to gather its own forces in its disconnected state to establish the bridge. That is the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and outer mind to any alternatives. First the disconnected, conscious mind must make a deliberate effort to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| divine. And only through the means of the disconnected mind can the bridge to the divine be | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| cannot happen by itself, cannot be a dead, disconnected process. The apparent disconnection of inanimate matter is | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more illusion, more false reality and become more disconnected, confused, empty -- choosing not to understand why | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| those things that happen because of an isolated, disconnected coincidence. Even though you may no longer pay | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the other, between inner attitudes that seem totally disconnected from one another. Let me briefly speak about | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| there is a direct connection between the apparently disconnected attitudes and aspects. For example, what connection could | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| or touch seems most of the time quite disconnected from the extremely personal and specific attitudes and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| connectedness with their divine origin and are therefore disconnected structures. When it comes to destructive acts of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that leads inward. The person who is completely disconnected from the inner dimension needs to delegate all | 228 BALANCE |
| not know your higher self, if you are disconnected from it and cannot identify with it, if | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you will never know that if you are disconnected from your truth. I want to mention one | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you function with appearance values and are consequently disconnected from the truth of your real being and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| real being and values and desires, you are disconnected from knowing your Godself. In this case many | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| reality, always accessible in its essence. Only the disconnected mind fails to perceive divine love and moves | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| self knows exists. However, the consciousness that is disconnected from the higher self warps this truth. The | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of the spiral configuration, you experience life as disconnected. Occurrences seem to have no meaning. Everything seems | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| negative, which is often a most superficial facet, disconnected from the whole. This limited focusing eliminates the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| mean a false transcendence of making yourself so disconnected from your feelings that you do not know | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| ways, even if these ways, at times, seem disconnected from the spiritual reality that you know. For | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| make sure that no part of you remains disconnected, rejected and denied. For to any part of | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| you experience the fear of a fragmented, meaningless, disconnected world in which you exist without rhyme or | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| you confuse issues; your thinking becomes muddled and disconnected in your very attempt to rationalize your rebellion | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| spheres in which entities live in a totally disconnected way, convinced that the dead state of thickly | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and further creates -- disconnection. If effects are disconnected in the field of human vision, fear of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| events. At first, almost all earthly events seem disconnected from one another. Things happen as if arbitrarily | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that you remain in pain, fear and confusion, disconnected from the greater reality of life. In the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| deeper inner levels of reality that were hitherto disconnected from your conscious being. As the earth transforms | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and work, a painful personal event seems utterly disconnected from any personal cause or meaning, something in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |