| Falsified...................7 | |
| Whether or not they remain genuine or become falsified depends on humanity's inner state of being, your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| large. Be in peace, be in God! 99. FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE Greetings | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| continue reacting to others from this fragmentary and falsified imprint. The remedy is first to become aware | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| can you revise your image and correct your falsified impressions? If you truly wish to do so | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to yourself that you wish to maintain a falsified picture and that you do not wish to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| soul the one-time occurrence is generalized and thereby falsified. A destructive pattern is set in motion, which | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it sees is, to varying degrees, limited and falsified. Hence the ego sees and experiences only finiteness | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Falsify.....................7 | |
| personality is not even noticed. These limited impressions falsify the picture. The image you carry of them | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in revealing yourself, and how much you still falsify and present a different front, if ever so | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| insurance against an apparently insecure future, makes you falsify truth. It makes you hold back. The more | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to deny them, to gloss over them and falsify their situation. And then, of course, there are | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| explained in the last lecture, and so you falsify them. Because the real feeling seems so naked | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| than the primary violations because they deny and falsify. This then becomes a double violation, which inevitably | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| deny your own. You distort and exaggerate to falsify. You deal with half-truths -- for what you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Falsity.....................27 | |
| long as you hide behind a wall of falsity, you must despise yourself -- much more than | 31 SHAME |
| path. Then you rid yourself of pride and falsity long before you are perfect in all the | 31 SHAME |
| is of itself a wrong conclusion; therefore a falsity, an illusion; therefore away from truth. If you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| so that you will convince yourself of the falsity of such an assumption. You are still filled | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| as it may be -- there is much falsity and error, my friends. You often believe something | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| after you have removed all the layers of falsity and half- truth, of distortion and confusion, can | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| if only you were willing to acknowledge the falsity of it all and give up the concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the real self. The idealized self is a falsity. It is a rigid, artificially constructed imitation of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| win and master life. To avoid uncovering this falsity, these trends become incorporated into the idealized self- | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is a need to battle against recognizing the falsity of the idealized self-image and the consequent reluctance | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| it. You think you can whisk away the falsity by not acknowledging it. Actually, the truth is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is that you can grow out of the falsity only by first of all accepting its existence | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| two conflicting currents within, if one recognizes the falsity of one current and then the second current | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you deal with, lonely. Since its nature is falsity and pretense, it alienates you from yourself, from | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| layers of the mind have dispensed with the falsity of both extremes. In this second stage of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| God, God becomes a parody, an opiate, a falsity. And faith in yourself is possible only if | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| needs. In order to establish true faith all falsity has to be removed. Even things that seem | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| -- can grow on firm foundations, without any falsity? To talk about artificial faith and hope as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you persist in poisoning your life with this falsity. A few of my friends are very near | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| about life causes untold pain. Without this senseless falsity so much suffering would be avoided. Men and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| inevitably be destroyed. This law points up the falsity of dualism, whose earmark is always that one | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| selfhood and ecstasy -- must they believe this falsity. Believing the falsity, they can not shed the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| -- must they believe this falsity. Believing the falsity, they can not shed the real selfishness, greed | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| arise in you from such truthful vision. All falsity and, with that, much suffering and tension will | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| can begin to recreate. When you see the falsity of your pretenses, you can then remind yourself | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| they do not see the limitation and actual falsity of this idea. If unification and divine process | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the illusions you created by constant belief in falsity -- in this case that non-movement is effortless | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Falter......................4 | |
| undoubtedly improve, as your sincere will does not falter; as you face these emotions within, in the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| on its own, as it were, it will falter. Sooner or later it must. And that is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| person. Unless this key is applied, relationships must falter or become stale, and mutuality in the true | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| expression? Underneath my superiority and arrogance, do I falter and doubt my intrinsic value? And when answers | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Familiarity.................4 | |
| fault as something new, in spite of your familiarity with its outer existence. Unless you approach it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| which seems to evaporate the more habit and familiarity with one another sets in. You may not | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that way. You reach a certain state of familiarity and habit and you think you know the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you will recognize it, you will experience its familiarity and you will feel how safe it is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Families....................5 | |
| the surface. This is the basis on which families and other life circumstances are chosen. When an | 38 IMAGES |
| you may have members of very different spiritual families. QUESTION: Why is it that all spiritual teachings | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| live in reality. They may hold jobs, have families and friends and go through all sorts of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| this, too, always existed within tribes, nations, and families -- but mainly by opposing other tribes. In | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very relevant for those who are born into families who continue to harbor this attitude in their | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Family......................36 | |
| hardly any group of people, be it a family or any other community, where at least one | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| as a spirit, continue to be involved with family or whatever group of people one had intended | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| ANSWER: When people are incarnated in the same family or in the same environment, there are always | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you have a task, whether you have a family or whether you live quite alone. But do | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| position -- perhaps with some member of your family or with a friend -- to discover for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| bondages, whether this bondage concerns a fanatic patriotism, family pride, a profession, or whatever else it may | 18 FREE WILL |
| cases, there are karmic bonds in the immediate family, but not always. It may very well be | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no karmic relationship with some members of the family. It may be a new relationship that was | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| karmic relationships that are not within one's own family. They may exist with people one meets in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each other very well. Your own friends or family may not share your interest in this work | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not see as yet. When your friends or family do tell you your faults, think about them | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| some of you who have seen in your family or in your environment a great change in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| strong sense of responsibility in their lives. Their family and business contacts know that they are thoroughly | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| differently you act with certain people, with your family, or friends. In each situation there is a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| known to yourself and to your friends and family as a person with certain predominant qualities and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| these words, all your dear ones, and your family and friends. Take these blessings with you, let | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| relief. Later, when some particular member of their family would come to visit, the affliction would recur | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| children or a father will provide for his family. That is so obvious I do not need | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| pressure. QUESTION: Are the members of the same family always on the same level? ANSWER: Oh, no | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Oh, no, not at all! In one human family you may have members of very different spiritual | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you really feel about all members of your family, or others who were important to you. Analyze | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| truth, with a still living member of your family with whom you might never have considered communicating | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| parents were, as well as others in your family. QUESTION: In seeking to communicate we must resort | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| environment and later to the world outside the family circle. The early adolescent is most preoccupied with | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| than pleasurable feelings in connection with one's own family. Therefore, such pleasurable feelings are kept even more | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| drive outward from the self to the immediate family environment, to the outer world, and to the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| but even within their own circle of immediate family, their growing became a necessity, for otherwise they | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| can look at all your relationships with your family, your partners, your associates, your friends, your business | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Of course, they did live with relatively small family groups, or clans. They already understood to some | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Thus group consciousness came to be emphasized. From family clans came tribes and people had to learn | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have already found your dependency, be it on family, a mate, the group. First unconsciously, and later | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| person in order to impress others, perhaps your family or those who have slighted you. Even in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| saw themselves as the aristocrats in the human family. The reason why Jesus Christ was born as | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in their own souls. They can use existing family influences as a challenge and thus help dissolve | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to be a self-governing part of the human family. You can become an autonomous person only if | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| those they disregard with shortsighted selfishness. The human family could not exist without a group spirit. But | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |