| Forcing-current.............13 | |
| needed. Misunderstood and misapplied control consists of selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are given up -- in this case, the forcing-current, the holding on -- no wonder the system | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Your frustrated striving and your self-betrayal create a forcing-current. The forcing-current may manifest in a very subtle | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| striving and your self-betrayal create a forcing-current. The forcing-current may manifest in a very subtle way and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and have its lawful and appropriate consequences. Any forcing-current is bound to make others resist and shrink | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the way of pleasure, safety, and self-respect. The forcing-current says, you must, and you make demands on | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| having to hide the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is threatening because you know quite well | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| beings use in order to switch on this forcing-current. They include compliance in varying degrees, passive resistance | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your right. But when using a hidden, emotional forcing-current, you go about seeking satisfaction in the wrong | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| By letting go and giving up your inner forcing-current, you will experience the beauty of free, unforced | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| face with your weakness and dependency, with your forcing-current that says to others you must, can you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| ground due to the absence of the venomous forcing-current that sends a message of vengeance into the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| a desire, but a demand, a threat, a forcing-current that says: I must have or else I | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Forefathers.................4 | |
| this way after all. What your fathers and forefathers or the people in whom you trust and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a special strength in the memory of your forefathers -- not because such a special day in | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of Him who was foretold by your very forefathers but then denied, is solely based on false | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and make room for the possibility that your forefathers have erred at a certain point of their | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Foreground..................25 | |
| century brings the feminine element more into the foreground? ANSWER: Yes, it is very true. This also | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| his personal desires stands so much in the foreground that he is willing to go to the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| put the gratification of the ego in the foreground. This is breaking spiritual law and has its | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| ego-stake. Not to have this ego in the foreground any more is to have the humility we | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| but one of them always stands in the foreground. Start by concentrating on that one. Objectivity needs | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| different levels. Broadly speaking, we can distinguish between foreground thoughts and background thoughts. Both have many subdivisions | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| beneficial for you in more ways than one. Foreground thought is voluntary, background thought is involuntary. What | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as being true, if you learn proper self-observation. Foreground, that is, voluntary thought, is always clear-cut and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| concise as long as it remains in the foreground and does not slide unnoticed into background thought | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| long as you follow it through, it is foreground thought. When you become calm and observe your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| unvolitional background thoughts have to be made into foreground thoughts. (2) You reexperience events, conversations, or impressions | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a benefit. In other words, you must make foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| entirely wasteful, if they are not made into foreground thoughts and evaluated. Such wishful thinking, as well | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| over your thought process by learning to make foreground thoughts from background thoughts and to ascertain their | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you do not learn to transform them into foreground thoughts, as long as you are not actually | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| often much more powerful than the apparently stronger foreground thoughts. By learning to observe your thought process | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| addition to the power to discriminate between your foreground and background thoughts, you will derive further benefits | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| also utter such instructions or intentions in clear-cut foreground thoughts every time you feel you cannot stand | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| then to think constructively with deliberate and valuable foreground thoughts. As you proceed on this path, in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| yours as well. They may come into the foreground at a different period of your life. It | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| growth will bring the real self into the foreground, and this real self will in now way | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the same sex, each parent stands in the foreground at certain periods of the child's development. This | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| along about the impure, limited aspects reaches the foreground of consciousness? You must take the existence of | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| a negative experience is not elicited into the foreground of consciousness, it can never be given a | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Foreign.....................69 | |
| into definite form and see it as a foreign body within the self, you can begin to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| what may be called transfiguration. The speaking of foreign tongues is an auditory transfiguration. But as I | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to do any type of wickedness that is foreign to them. But they can succeed with the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| being was freely active, and not covered by foreign and un-godlike matter. I have often said that | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| Now you will want to know how these foreign layers came to cover the divine substance that | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| immature currents, a mask of intellectuality that is foreign to her or his true nature. Such a | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| exist. An obstruction is created by an element foreign to the divine life force. Self- deception amounts | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| It cannot be stopped because non-creation is basically foreign and opposed to spirit and life. However, this | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the sense of translating a text from a foreign language. If you are not very familiar with | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and feel it distinctly, almost as a separate foreign substance within yourself. You will then understand that | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and feel the current, visualizing it as a foreign substance, you are on the halfway mark of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| estranges you from yourself. The estrangement symbolizes the foreign language you do not understand. You cannot understand | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel it, almost as though it were a foreign body, before you can convince yourself of its | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| lofty and so holy that it is utterly foreign to the self with which you are familiar | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that it is not something far away and foreign. It is the familiar you in its very | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your concentration on something unreal and unreasonable, something foreign to the real self whose nature is reality | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in their very nature, and as such are foreign to the real self, whose intrinsic nature is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Were you to ask someone who speaks a foreign tongue to tell you something about it so | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| As long as you remain dependent on a foreign life source, you have to resort to all | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| your unconscious than the knowledge of a dozen foreign earth languages. The work of this path is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| distorted perceptions form a nucleus, almost like a foreign body, in the soul. The spiritual being as | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| It is the nucleus of distorted perceptions, this foreign body, that prohibits the soul from being in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| express. Human beings struggle and fight against this foreign body in wrong ways. They sense its existence | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| not see that they struggle against acknowledging this foreign body. They often find themselves in an interim | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| giving up the armoring that has covered this foreign body so far, and not yet being quite | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that its existence entails. The fact that this foreign body is denied causes more misery than the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and love. Instead of ridding themselves of the foreign body, which can only be done after close | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| into existence, people still act as though this foreign body did not exist. They continue to superimpose | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| did not exist. They continue to superimpose more foreign matter on the original soul substance. Why is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| it so difficult for you to acknowledge this foreign body? Not only because of your fear that | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| because of the underlying basic fear that the foreign body may be your ultimate self. At this | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that only the superimposed veneer that covers the foreign body gives you the feeling that you have | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you struggle against admitting that which is actually foreign to your real nature. However, you do not | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| this. You think, fear, and suspect that the foreign substance is the ultimate you. This is why | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the inner live center has been experienced. The foreign substance covers this very experience of the real | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| your real nature, because you anticipate that this foreign body is the final answer to who you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| risk of exploring yourself to discover whether the foreign substance causing you so much misery is really | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to the point where you clearly feel the foreign body of misconceptions to be just that. Many | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that the disturbed substance in you is truly foreign matter. At the beginning of such a path | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| At the beginning of such a path, this foreign body seems to be all there is, your | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| turn away from facing this disturbing nucleus of foreign matter, with all its distortions, negative emotions, pains | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| where you can feel the boundaries of this foreign body, even while occasionally still being immersed in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| over the temptation to run away from the foreign substance, to shift and displace its effects on | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| goes through in the course of transcending the foreign body and beginning to sense another reaction coming | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| problems. Human beings constantly move away from this foreign nucleus. When they turn about and begin to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| do exist. Only in isolated spots does the foreign body blur the inner, real being. There are | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| more you run from yourself, the more this foreign body grows. QUESTION: As I see it, this | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| hurts and pains which are responsible for the foreign nucleus I was talking about. This nucleus obstructs | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the personality can also appear as a separate, foreign consciousness dwelling within. In the first attempts to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| they be denied, uprooted, or forcefully supplanted by foreign elements that seem more palatable to the fearful | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| complicated feat or on a state of perfection foreign to your present way of being. It does | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of more or less taut intensity which is foreign to and incompatible with the universal power. This | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| intensity, which will then be felt as something foreign and unnatural. This is the first step toward | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| unnaturalness of it, to feel that this is foreign to your innermost nature. Total self-realization, therefore, brings | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| it is as if you had contacted a foreign power within yourself. As you do this more | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| best self. It first seems to be a foreign power, but it is not. It only seems | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of the compression that feels almost like a foreign body, as I said before. As you acknowledge | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as I said before. As you acknowledge this foreign body and meet it in the right way | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reality. The process of self-enlargement, of making apparently foreign territory your own domain, constitutes the Pathwork -- | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the ego's present confines. The new territory is foreign, unknown. People want to avoid the unknown, and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| territory: a territory that was at first frighteningly foreign, unknown, and apparently dark but will become familiar | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the ego, you perceive life as your enemy, foreign and antagonistic to you, while you are its | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you. You will not imitate something that is foreign to your nature. Basic universal traits exist and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the devilish part of the self is intrinsically foreign and other than divine. This is ignorance. I | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| -- anything that was or seemed different, strange, foreign. Distrust of the opposite sex was also very | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is a residue of ancient times, when anything foreign and different was feared, rejected, and conquered by | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of self-expression. You have made more of the foreign territory your own; you see more, you comprehend | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| something that you are not, that is still foreign to you, you would aid your process considerably | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| different ways. Things no longer appear strange or foreign. There is a greater overall awareness, because knowing | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |