| Air.........................27 | |
| movements, emotions, and thoughts are for you like air, but for us they are solid forms, walls | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| fire signs. Where there is too much of air, water, and fire, this meditation will be wrong | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| case, when there is high humidity in the air? ANSWER: This happens because everybody's different odic forces | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| outer space will be as commonly accepted as air travel is today. When pilots sit in an | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| sets in again, and you enjoy the clear air of a gained truth a little further. But | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You get over something only if you can air it out. That is why the same old | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| viewpoint too, it will bring light and fresh air into your soul. Nothing but the realization, the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| sets in again, and you enjoy the clear air of having climbed a little further and gained | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| course, these study groups are the place to air it. If your pride prevents you from doing | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| taboo. If they are allowed into the fresh air of consciousness, the fear will automatically cease. I | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life. By such understanding, you bring fresh, clean air into all the channels that have been clogged | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality but send your responses forth into thin air, as it were, and not at all to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| The existing energy does not dissolve into thin air. Like a stream, it seeks an outlet. The | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| going on, must leave you hanging in the air. You often fail to understand what really happens | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| begin to dissolve the fences into the thin air of which they are actually made. They have | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| still have to acclimate yourself to breathing fresh air, and such acclimation is possible only when you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| from others to you, that is in the air around you, in the air you breathe. Your | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is in the air around you, in the air you breathe. Your gaze will change. Your realizations | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| anger can be expressed. It will clear the air. Real fear is a purposeful warning that serves | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is no way of letting in the fresh air of truth, all these threatening feelings become more | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| holds true about everything else -- food, water, air. It also applies to the metabolism of energy | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| with in a constructive, beautiful way. If you air out your most negative feelings -- hate, cruelty | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the influx of health, of the clean fresh air of psychic truth, is instant. It is the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| are indeed infinite. There is no particle of air or ether that is not such a nuclear | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| series of psychic nuclear points. So is the air you breathe, as are your bones, muscles, flesh | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| each of these examples. The smallest particle of air is in itself a perfect creation of a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| live in the grace of God. The very air you breathe is permeated with it. Every substance | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Airpocket...................4 | |
| Perhaps I might use the analogy of an airpocket to convey nature or life of matter. In | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| from other states of consciousness and development. The airpocket you live in represents your present reality. It | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| present reality. It may be an entirely different airpocket for others whom you can see and hear | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| turn your mind has taken in the particular airpocket of your condensed reality. However, that self-created wall | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Alarm.......................3 | |
| up a defense against them. Yet an inner alarm seems to ring whenever an actual or imaginary | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| aware and investigate what has set off the alarm. Instead of investigating it with your reasoning faculties | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| wonder the system reacts first with fright and alarm. It requires a period of re-orientation, of forming | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Alas........................4 | |
| it again without a shadow of a doubt. Alas, this rarely occurs to people, even to those | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| other than you are with yourself. And that, alas, happens with the best of you. Try to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| substance. So this wall is a reality and, alas, often a greater reality than your matter. For | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to be selfish would bring you happiness, but alas, you are not allowed to be happy. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Albeit......................3 | |
| all very quick to make your own decision, albeit a temporary one in many cases, that this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| are not completely devoid of a certain logic, albeit limited and erroneous. As the years go by | 38 IMAGES |
| split in regard to identification. When a secret, albeit partial, identification with the lower self exists, giving | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Alcoholism..................4 | |
| further deliberate escapes, such as drug addiction, or alcoholism, or psychosis, or other measures. Addictions are often | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| also many other forms of addiction, such as alcoholism. QUESTION: Some psychologists say that masturbation is a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| most extreme forms of releasing ego over-functioning are alcoholism and drug addiction. Less extreme forms are self-alienation | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| responsibility. Or it can take the form of alcoholism, drug addiction, and all the artificial ways of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Alert.......................25 | |
| at the same moment, but if you are alert and open, life will bring you the answer | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be opened unto you. The knocking symbolizes being alert and interested enough to figure out what you | 38 IMAGES |
| not have to try and work or be alert any more. Two people may arrange an apparently | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| face your confusions and misconceptions. Be on the alert for the tendency to close the door, to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| I find it terribly tiring to be constantly alert during the entire day and to live in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| find that gradually you will naturally become more alert and more awake in an unforced way. It | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you will automatically and without strain be more alert and concentrated without fatigue. You will then begin | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and slow change. You will become naturally more alert to the present and more observant. You will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| growth and awareness. You become more seeing, more alert, more intuitive. This cannot be a volitional process | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| remains static. Only a free spirit can be alert and relaxed enough to follow the stream of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| do is to remind yourself constantly to be alert to this reality in you; to cultivate the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| human being, where one's senses have to be alert to the other person as well as to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this respect. First of all, keep your attention alert in this direction. The first stage on this | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in facing them -- on the contrary. Be alert, my friends, and you will truly liberate yourselves | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| grow in such a relationship, particularly when being alert to oneself, but usually spontaneous feelings for the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| again, the more you choose restraint willingly, with alert reasoning and constructive motivation, the freer you become | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to sense the subtle interplay between the increasingly alert ego and the increasingly more manifest real self | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| pressured or impatiently coerced. The ego must be alert to recognize what the unconscious expresses indirectly and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is now sufficiently conscious. The person is too alert to allow the destructiveness to rule and precipitate | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| an unaware rambling and drowsing. It is extremely alert and awake, a sharp concentration without the least | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| that suddenly occur to you. If you are alert and sensitive, attuned to inner reality, you will | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| may seem at first. You can only be alert to and have full knowledge of what happens | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| what is worthy of emulation. You will be alert to it and use this vision to complete | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| bear on your whole inner person, the more alert and awake you become. This is an inexorable | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| contained within the receptive state makes it as alert, wakeful and alive as the active state is | 228 BALANCE |
| Alertness...................6 | |
| well as for self-revelation, requires inner activity and alertness. But since people are often tempted into inner | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| attitude IS prayer. Candor with oneself IS prayer; alertness to one's resistance is prayer; owning up to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Your fight for physical and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make decisions, willingness to make mistakes | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| see that there existed a combination of poised alertness -- of active involvement and participation and, at | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| must take place, requiring a tremendous amount of alertness on the part of your conscious ego self | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| every step of the way to give you alertness and awareness, so as not to push underground | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Alien.......................15 | |
| emotions that you often believe to be entirely alien to your character and that are therefore doubly | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| entity in itself is so confused and so alien to their innermost personality that they feel they | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| movement of fear, away from that which seems alien, as if it had nothing to do with | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| poisonous atmosphere in your psychic organism so totally alien to and incompatible with the bliss that is | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| other than the one you express now is alien to you -- intrinsically alien, and your real | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| express now is alien to you -- intrinsically alien, and your real, final, fixed self is what | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| from an excessive ego-orientation and is therefore totally alien to a state of pleasure. Negative pleasure is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| power over life. You convert territory that was alien and inaccessible into familiar ground on which you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| is a constant forward movement that turns an alien and apparently hostile world into your home. It | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of life itself, is geared in a way alien to life's essence, then this very alienness must | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| these processes and attitudes appear to be quite alien to each other. The creative attitude is a | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| consciousness can direct but that is in itself alien to determination, to self-knowledge -- in short, to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| which then hits a closed channel that is alien to its own benign nature and thus creates | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| involuntary pattern that seems to make life dangerous, alien, something to be defended against. In this pattern | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the illusion that others were intrinsically different and alien, and therefore were enemies to be distrusted. Experiencing | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |