| Anguish.....................8 | |
| manifestation at this moment that causes you continuous anguish? It is not a momentary experience caused by | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| in harmony with life, there would be no anguish, no bitterness, no fear, no emptiness. When you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| experienced at the same time -- wracking anxiety, anguish, depression and a deep peace and well-being -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not half as painful nor as filled with anguish. It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| so that, instead of security, it must bring anguish. To repeat: the same approach is necessary toward | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you can endure it with less and less anguish, apprehension and anxiety. Sensitive listening into your most | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| reaction into the present. The past pain and anguish may really be repressed in the true sense | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is it possible to first experience pain and anguish, fear and despair, in a safe and wholesome | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Animal......................49 | |
| seeing a beautiful flower or a lovable little animal you believe that they exist only temporarily because | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and still happens with certain people. If the animal is in possession of senses that man often | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and fragmentations. This explains the origin of the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms. There the splits extend | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| consciously remember it at all. A food, plant, animal or some such thing may have been involved | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| about the evolution of animals. When the highest animal becomes a human being, for instance. That a | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| represent one aspect, and so on. Because the animal soul is not a whole, it is just | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| beings learn from their disease. What can an animal learn from having a disease? ANSWER: That is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| part-souls became, as an expression, mineral, plant and animal life. Before the earth-sphere existed, these expressions existed | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various forms. In other words, mineral, plant and animal life on earth are, to some degree at | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the latter is a further split than the animal kingdom. The part-soul does not always have to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insofar as you have beautiful mineral, plant, and animal life, and why these forms of existence should | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still are dying out and other forms of animal life come into existence. The same applies to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not make any difference for what reason an animal dies. It is the same as with a | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| tell me what it is like for an animal to wake up after it has died? How | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to be understood in the sense that an animal is a particle of a whole soul, just | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| form a whole. The waking-up process of an animal is very similar to that of the human | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| shorter period of rest or unconsciousness for the animal. In other cases, the moment the animal slips | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the animal. In other cases, the moment the animal slips out of its physical body, it is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| grows: plants, trees, grass, flowers, fruits, vegetables, the animal world, even the mineral world. And it should | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| would try to explain human language to an animal. As far as my -- or any spirit's | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same law at work even in the animal world. A pet has no freedom but it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| obtaining its own food and shelter. A wild animal is free, or freer, but it is responsible | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| The frequency rate of vibration varies between an animal and a plant, between two animals, between two | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world they say that man is an evolved animal, evolved from the fish through the amphibian and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| evolution is correct. Evolution goes through mineral, lower animal, plant, higher animal, human being, spirit being. I | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Evolution goes through mineral, lower animal, plant, higher animal, human being, spirit being. I explained that many | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who reacts to the moment almost like an animal. It knows no past and no future and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of truth. There is a lower kind of animal life that is destructive, and if you would | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| another question. It is: On what level of animal life are we to stop? How do we | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| factors we ignore. How can we decide which animal life is predominantly destructive and which is predominantly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| humankind is ready to give up killing higher animal species, but it is not too distant, at | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| awakened from a lower state, a plant or animal form where you were in a state of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a perfect and wise super-creature or a monstrous animal. Many people have extreme attitudes toward their unconscious | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| development is a state of being without awareness. Animal life, plant life, mineral life are in a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| completely passive way. The relating capacity of an animal is already more dynamic. It actively responds to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| And so growth proceeds along the scale, from animal to human. Now you may say that the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| thought, spirit, man is more alive than the animal. The range of the possibilities for the extension | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| may apply to keeping and caring for an animal, but certainly not to the degree required in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The two-way split does not apply to the animal, plant, or mineral kingdoms, which are still in | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| When you observe a primitive person or an animal, you see that their consciousness does not yet | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| makes you suffer, searching blindly, like a trapped animal. But you are your own victim. You have | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| could hardly make more sense than to an animal. They would be meaningless to them. There are | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an immense difference between them and the highest-developed animal state of consciousness. The latter may have some | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| equipped with specific defenses so that the individual animal can have what you may call a sporting | 254 SURRENDER |
| maintaining an overall balance in nature. Yet one animal killing another for its nourishment appears cruel and | 254 SURRENDER |
| and in a sense is, tragic that an animal needs to endure panic and pain in order | 254 SURRENDER |
| lovingly befriend each other! In that world no animal needs the life of another to sustain its | 254 SURRENDER |
| the void, if you will. Every plant, every animal, every life form existing on this plane, breathes | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| no longer withdraw, even from plant, mineral and animal life. Vibrations of matter will be so refined | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Animalistic.................3 | |
| eros and without love is referred to as animalistic. Pure sex exists in all living creatures: animals | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| fact often is selfish and loveless, raw and animalistic. If people would realize -- and they are | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| also need their will to overcome their raw, animalistic, destructive instincts that had slumbered in the state | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Animals.....................45 | |
| to ask a question about the sensitivity of animals. Although man is supposed to be the highest | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| highest developed creature on earth, in certain areas animals are; hunting dogs for instance have a sense | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| not material. This sense is more developed in animals because their intellect is not yet as developed | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| would like to ask about the evolution of animals. When the highest animal becomes a human being | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| nature. You see, the soul particles incarnated as animals are different aspects of the human inner makeup | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Before incarnation, the group souls of the respective animals are collected in the spirit world and for | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| complicated for any of you to understand. QUESTION: Animals have the same diseases as human beings, but | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you direct this force. Lower developed beings, like animals and plants and minerals, are still in a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| itself in each created being not only produced animals, plants, and minerals, but also other substances which | 21 THE FALL |
| from divine law. You all know that certain animals, for instance, have been and still are dying | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| otherwise grown-up intelligence. The same process exists with animals. A dog, for example, may hear the same | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| see that the same procedure works even with animals. Otherwise you could not train them. With a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| liberation from their fears and anxieties. QUESTION: Do animals killed for the purpose of being eaten go | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| double, may or may not be incarnated. With animals the split goes further. One entire being consists | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| rule, than on earth. We cannot generalize about animals either. Each case may be a little different | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| case may be a little different, but all animals are taken care of. There are spirits whose | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are spirits whose task it is to help animals. QUESTION: In connection with what you have just | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| animalistic. Pure sex exists in all living creatures: animals, plants, and minerals. Eros begins with the stage | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in a lower grade of development, such as animals or plants. Free will implies the ability and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| between an animal and a plant, between two animals, between two human beings, let alone between all | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| conclusion about character in a person who loves animals and nature and a person who does not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misleading. The assumption that the person who loves animals and nature is a better person than one | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifestation while the person who does not love animals and nature is otherwise receptive and open. For | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that just because certain people do not love animals, they automatically love people more than those who | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love people more than those who do love animals. There is no rule, and every case has | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for a person who does not care for animals and nature, so I must be completely wrong | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| already more dynamic. It actively responds to other animals, to nature, and to human beings. The scale | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| for living creatures other than humans: plants or animals. They require a certain amount of sacrifice, consideration | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can be extremely dim, as for example in animals or plants; or it can be very highly | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| human beings were little more self- aware than animals, they freely acted out these destructive feelings. Primitive | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and the prospect of making a sanctuary for animals and plant life in the Center. The answers | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| a lesser degree than the consciousness within plants, animals, or other human beings. Matter is still malleable | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| time on the first state: consciousness without self-awareness. Animals, plants, minerals, and inanimate matter fall under this | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of course much easier to see this with animals, plants and even minerals, which have their growth | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| state of being. Inanimate matter, minerals, plants, and animals do not live within time. They exist in | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than the self was rampant. People distrusted nature, animals, the weather, the gods, fate, other tribes -- | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| himself of his own value. This applied to animals, to peoples whom he subjugated through warfare, and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| aspect of Creation. Look at the life of animals -- of birds or ants, for example. Animals | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| animals -- of birds or ants, for example. Animals living free in nature obey the structure of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of existence. Take for example the suffering of animals who become the prey of other animals in | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of animals who become the prey of other animals in order to sustain the greater life cycle | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| much less than the suffering willfully inflicted on animals by the indifference and cruelty of humans. But | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the indifference and cruelty of humans. But that animals have to go through this phase of their | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| there is an intrinsic rightness about it. These animals are incarnated aspects of consciousness that need these | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| deny God's presence. It is also true that animals can never indulge in the useless cruelty and | 254 SURRENDER |