| Altered.....................15 | |
| and undiluted, and in other spots may be altered and put into wrong channels by the lower | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of learning to accept that which cannot be altered by the self, of learning humility, and other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| feeling of inferiority. Or, if it can be altered, you could go about changing it. But since | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of this life -- which can sometimes be altered during a lifetime, but not always. Do you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it says, I should accept what cannot be altered, and another part says, I do not want | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| where these conditions can be experienced and gradually altered. Every problem must have such a nucleus, where | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| this and look at life with the slightly altered vision that acknowledges both principles at work, you | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| subtle bodies also contain these centers, but already altered in their functioning, according to the degree of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| place when certain atmospheric conditions have to be altered and clarity in the atmosphere is to be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| destructive aspects you cannot become whole. Cultivate this altered attitude. The new attitude of acceptance does not | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Therefore your meditative aim may have to be altered along the way. If you are not willing | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| change at all times, negative creation can be altered. An important aspect of the pathwork is that | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| self, for your relationship to the world becomes altered. You no longer function on the level of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| that its energies are divine and can be altered, transformed, and are essential. You must make sure | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| penetrate deeper into matter, so that matter is altered after their life is withdrawn. The entire process | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Alternate...................24 | |
| you in an ever expanding way. It will alternate between outside guidance and recognitions and insights which | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| aspects, each one as such, without having to alternate them, each creating harmoniously in its own mode | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| that is alive, healthy, and flexible, it must alternate and change constantly. At any given time, whoever | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be dominant in one partner, or they may alternate in both at various phases of the relationship | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| being simultaneously present in one person. Do they alternate in time? How does that work in a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| when two or all three of these tendencies alternate? When a person is submissive on one occasion | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is a typical manifestation of how these solutions alternate, according to the need and to the situation | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| tied to the other. This is why you alternate between experiencing pseudofears and pseudofulfillment in daydreams. QUESTION | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is only partial, such periods are short-lived. They alternate with periods of confusion and depression. But the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| at different times different directions come up. They alternate in predominance at any given moment. At one | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| person is faced with a choice. Often you alternate between the two choices and are driven from | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this will not remain that way. It will alternate, fluctuate. You will lose what you found and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| no longer pain, so that you no longer alternate between pain and pleasure. Then these opposites will | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to your own innermost being. Then you will alternate between knowing new material about yourself and the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| plexus is consulted. The ego must learn to alternate between being active and passive, initiating and receptive | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It requires your intuitive groping to combine and alternate these two functions. The final step in giving | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| and self-confrontation, however. But these periods should always alternate with contact -- and the more intimate such | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| stronger episodes. Utter darkness, loss, pain, and confusion alternate with heights of golden light, carrying justified hope | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| know so well. In the second stage, where alternate opening up and contracting occurs, the mental activity | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| hate. On the emotional level, longing and disappointment alternate with fulfillment in fantasy. This indicates some degree | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| be; the more you will be able to alternate between receptivity and initiating, from level to level | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| pulsatory changes of tension, in a different sense, alternate with openness and total receptivity. In the ordinary | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| helping you through guidance, inspiration and advice, to alternate from level to level. At one time you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| concentration on these various levels of being will alternate and follow a certain rhythm. As I mentioned | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Alternates..................4 | |
| the next storm comes along. And so it alternates until the journey reaches its destination. The destination | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to self-expression. If it is rightly practiced, it alternates. If the outer fulfillment is not obstructed inside | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the taking, the receiving. Even when the process alternates, you will find yourself in one stage more | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| out of you, in which the receptive principle alternates with the active principle. Here is another idea | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Alternations................8 | |
| experience feelings that have been avoided. These fine alternations must be sensed both by those who are | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of development, here, too, are certain sequences and alternations according to spiritual law. Where blocks exist, and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| nations came into existence, but only after further alternations between individual and group consciousness had taken place | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you can see. There are many more such alternations historically speaking, that I cannot go into at | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement in which subdivisions of many more such alternations exist. For instance, within the larger overall phase | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| group consciousness, constant smaller fluctuations of the same alternations take place. And within that secondary spiral movement | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| within that secondary spiral movement exist many more alternations of individual and group consciousness. An entity is | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| individual life must still go through the same alternations. One incarnation may emphasize one form of consciousness | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Alternative.................95 | |
| least one price, even if for the wrong alternative. Such straightforwardness serves the soul's health, even though | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a short circuit in the soul. A third alternative is that there may be a shock reaction | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| must become happy. There is simply no other alternative. It is the only possible consequence. But it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in divine law and order, the logical third alternative is that some factors are determined by fate | 18 FREE WILL |
| alternatives are prepared beforehand. Nostradamus just saw one alternative and not the many other possibilities according to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may have glimpses of one plan for one alternative, but not of the many other possibilities arising | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truly ready and prepared to accept even the alternative you like least, provided it is God's will | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| any issues or possible results. Even if one alternative would be better for you than the other | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| always a price or a disadvantage to any alternative; and to be wholly willing to pay the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| hand, let us assume you chose the right alternative by accident. When I say by accident, I | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| than by taking on a needlessly more difficult alternative. By deciding with the right attitude, you responsibly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| thinking that the price can be evaded. Each alternative will have an advantage and also a disadvantage | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| In the lower spheres of darkness, however, no alternative carries with it a so-called advantage. For you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a mature decision means therefore to deliberate each alternative thoroughly; to face not only the advantageous sides | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| explained to the individual why this or that alternative would be bad or even dangerous and why | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| incarnated, will advise and explain and offer another alternative. The entity then has the right to accept | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| many plans. There is a plan for every alternative, every possibility of free-will decision. Let us say | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| he or she was expected to. For that alternative there is one plan. Another plan has been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| each human being has necessarily been given many alternative plans for a life. This will also clear | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not found the way to peace, the wrong alternative must also lead toward the goal of unity | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to conform and to gain admiration. The other alternative is to rationalize, justify, and self-righteously explain harboring | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the wrong conclusion that there is no alternative. You make yourself unaware of the existence of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| admire for their attitude. You ignore the third alternative which is the only healthy one. This approach | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| an indirect consequence. You unconsciously choose the latter alternative, recognizing that the open and direct way is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| occasions when it is quite clear that one alternative is right and the other is selfish. COMMENT | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the extreme one wants to avoid. The right alternative is to recognize the sex force as a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about this lecture? QUESTION: I cannot understand which alternative to take between being dependent on other people's | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| They must also lead back to the old alternative against which one has rebelled. It is only | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| appears to be against your personal interests? Either alternative brings dissatisfaction. Let us now examine why this | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You do not have to choose the wrong alternative now, simply because in the past you performed | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| core of the problem. Then there is another alternative regarding guilt feelings: One often feels guilty when | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want it when I want it. The other alternative is, Since so many times I could not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| if I did not get it? Consider this alternative with a fresh outlook. Sometimes it may be | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| knew nothing but supreme bliss without any opposing alternative. You can recapture this state gradually, by stages | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with it, or try to become it. Neither alternative works. Broadly speaking, either one of these attitudes | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pressing down, the other shooting out. The third alternative -- after understanding how superfluous this protective measure | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| with its consequences; and you choose this particular alternative because, even though you recognize its imperfections, it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it still seems better to you than another alternative. It corresponds to your innermost nature. This does | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the outer layers. Any way you turn, the alternative is always between your childish self-will and a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| as your peace of mind is concerned. Each alternative would be dishonest in its own way: one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a trap. They offer no real solution. One alternative may seem outwardly right, but may feel wrong | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| outwardly right, but may feel wrong, or neither alternative may satisfy anyone. You feel helpless, and because | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| principle, be it general or personal; the other alternative will be to follow your real self. This | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| forced to give in. You see no other alternative. Hence, by seeing only these two alternatives, you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| terms of either needing or fearing. In neither alternative do they see the reality. Now, my friends | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| may believe it to be, because in either alternative you have equal possibility for growth if your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| depend on outer rules to tell them what alternative to choose on what occasion, must be lost | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| revitalizing life force, which is better than the alternative of thwarting the pleasure drive altogether. In most | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| meaningful and fulfilling life becomes. In the latter alternative, the crisis is short-lived. It lasts only until | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| He or she is faced with the unsatisfactory alternative of either giving and resenting it or receiving | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hostility and turn it against oneself. In neither alternative is there any awareness of the hostility, because | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| good, kind, and considerate. Some people adopt one alternative, some the other, but all fear the consequences | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is impossible to find the right decision. Neither alternative is preferable. To discover that this kind of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the negative and therefore grab for the positive alternative. When you find the areas of fear, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| must follow suit. Shrinking away from a feared alternative and wanting the positive alternative because of that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| from a feared alternative and wanting the positive alternative because of that, makes the latter an unreachable | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| courage to assume the possibility of a positive alternative. QUESTION: You speak of the outer self as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| be confronted with one good and one bad alternative. I have discussed this before in other connections | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of yourself. The ideal is the apparently good alternative; the bad alternative seems to be that which | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| ideal is the apparently good alternative; the bad alternative seems to be that which you are at | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a rigid, sterile good and a flatly bad alternative. The self cannot feel at ease in either | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| The self cannot feel at ease in either alternative. Both are a strain and both feel distinctly | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| honored. But once you choose for the positive alternative, whatever negativity exists in you no longer feels | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| other. Since you are one with others, either alternative ultimately affects both. Hence, the power cannot be | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| giving yourself up to something dangerous. The other alternative is that you hold on too tightly which | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| momentarily alleviated by occasional success with the desirable alternative of the two opposites. The helplessness and hopelessness | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the concept that causes the fear of the alternative instead of opposing the alternative itself. This is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| fear of the alternative instead of opposing the alternative itself. This is directly connected with relinquishing what | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to the extent one fears that the desired alternative will not occur. I have discussed many facets | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| area you still fear and oppose the undesirable alternative. Even when you try to superimpose the truth | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| feared and therefore avoided. When you embrace one alternative and say, I must have this in order | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| This opposition must exist whenever fear of one alternative prevents you from being in peace and joy | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| greedy. At that point, there is no false alternative, no split, or choice to be made between | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| false. The painful premise seems preferable to another alternative that appears, deep in your unconscious, even worse | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| existence of the feelings. This seems the only alternative. But the more these feelings are denied, the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of no return. The limit finally offers no alternative but to turn around; then the unitive principle | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the other bad. Each can be either. Each alternative may be healthy and productive or unhealthy and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| he can reach the ultimate state where every alternative or possibility in life contains an equal amount | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| volitional faculties. Only after this step does an alternative process develop. The involuntary yields recognitions, inspiration, guidance | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| giving up the pretense, for the only other alternative is the painful struggle I have just described | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and offer it to others, becomes a real alternative to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and material. They are so afraid of this alternative that they will not let go enough to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| So much confusion exists because of the either/or alternative and the topic under discussion is particularly prone | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to become more flexible and try out new alternative interpretations. If the tendency to build a cluster | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| feel to give up pride. If the only alternative seems to be humiliation, then start probing for | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| the benefit of the doubt. Make room for alternative interpretations. Trust, and give the other room to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is a flexible, realistic, wide-open system with many alternative ways from which consciousness and creative action can | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| new possibility. Merely opening yourself to a new alternative in principle, and feeling ready to abandon an | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| an enormous obstacle on your path, for either alternative prevents you from growing and expanding and becoming | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the years that most of the time either alternative could be governed by the most sincere or | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| So there are only two choices. The first alternative is to submit to the totality of what | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| only in a rigid, life-denying structure. The other alternative the child has is to openly and consciously | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| reasons for making a decision. It registers which alternative the individual or the collective entity is acting | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| ultimate reality. That would indeed be unbearable. That alternative is whispered into your ears by the forces | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| painful, fearful dualism through straining from the undesirable alternative, then it follows that you must give up | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |