| Husband.....................7 | |
| them psychologically. That may be a friend, a husband, a wife, a relative, an associate; someone who | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| I have the same negative emotion toward my husband, but I'm not able to release it or | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to becoming worthy for a reunion with my husband, who passed over on April 5, 1960. I | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| such a private session to please contact my husband over there, enabling him to contribute his very | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| overcome the rebellious feeling that God took my husband. ANSWER: Yes, my dear, but do you not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| marital love, is it possible that perhaps the husband loves more at first, and then the wife | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| see how you never fully reacted to your husband or wife, your child or friend as their | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Husbands....................2 | |
| In other cases people should find themselves as husbands and wives, because when passion or sex plays | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a karmic situation, as, for instance, parents, children, husbands, wives, sisters and brothers? Does it go further | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Hygiene.....................3 | |
| have its consequences. The same thing applies to hygiene. Humanity has made great progress in the direction | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| made great progress in the direction of physical hygiene. Today people bathe and shower daily and keep | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| full experience of your feeling self is spiritual hygiene and prevents the stagnation of your soul. It | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Hypnosis....................13 | |
| previous life, be solved by human methods of hypnosis alone or does it need regression? ANSWER: You | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can never come to you, be it through hypnosis or through mediumship, without the spirit world of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the technical and practical procedure with regression in hypnosis: Here it is my very strong and definite | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| particular training of this sort. This kind of hypnosis must be handled entirely differently than ordinary hypnosis | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hypnosis must be handled entirely differently than ordinary hypnosis. And never, never, should one start with hypnosis | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hypnosis. And never, never, should one start with hypnosis. Only after much progress has been achieved by | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fruitful. QUESTION: What determines the subject's susceptibility to hypnosis? ANSWER: The power to let go. The power | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| important to eliminate the cause not because of hypnosis but because it indicates something. Such an inner | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it as a symptom without dwelling on the hypnosis itself. QUESTION: Do you mean a person who | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it may be entirely unnecessary to ever experience hypnosis. They can go through life being perfectly happy | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you say in general that one should disregard hypnosis? ANSWER: No, I do not say that either | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the help to become free. In some cases hypnosis helps in this direction. A person may be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that state. In various states of trance or hypnosis this may also happen, but not in all | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Hypnotism...................5 | |
| is interconnected. QUESTION: I want to ask about hypnotism. There has been a lot of comment in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| ill effects. The same applies to anything else. Hypnotism is not good or bad per se. It | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the unrecognized ones. Therefore, a person who practices hypnotism in order to exploit others may sometimes do | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| deal -- and is rare indeed. As to hypnotism itself, it also depends upon how and to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| physical as well as to emotional symptoms. If hypnotism is used merely for the sake of making | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Hypnotist...................14 | |
| God and Christ. Both the subject and the hypnotist should feel themselves to be instruments and should | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| help and will, among other things, show the hypnotist how to go about it. There are no | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this operation. It can do so if the hypnotist is open to this guidance and inspiration. Such | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| open to this guidance and inspiration. Such a hypnotist will also have to go through a particular | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fact, outer selfish motives, fully recognized by the hypnotist, may be less harmful than the unrecognized ones | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of it which are harmful, even if the hypnotist fulfills the stated requirements. For instance, symptoms, which | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| reason may be lack of confidence in the hypnotist, although this may be entirely unconscious. Or it | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| an unsolved problem, an unconscious deviation of the hypnotist, may particularly affect one person because of a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| ease with life and people. QUESTION: If the hypnotist has to be free and the subject has | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| emotionally mature. An analyst, as well as a hypnotist, does not have to be completely perfect and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is still unfree is very important and the hypnotist can help, even when coming across a problem | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that he also has. Then the help the hypnotist gives will also help his or her own | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| or her own problem. And through self-help, the hypnotist further helps the other person. But in order | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to understand their essence. QUESTION: When does a hypnotist know he or she is ready? ANSWER: They | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Hypnotized..................6 | |
| lately about the possible ill effects on the hypnotized subjects. Will you tell us a little about | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the person to find the cause can be hypnotized away. This can apply to physical as well | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| not desirable. But the inability ever to be hypnotized is a symptom of a condition to be | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you mean a person who wants to be hypnotized and cannot? ANSWER: The term bad subject applies | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is that if a person never can be hypnotized, it may indicate a rigidity which ought to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of skipping steps within the psyche. They become hypnotized, as it were, by a truth they have | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Hypocrisy...................18 | |
| general overview. QUESTION: There is a lot of hypocrisy in this world, which is of course the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the shortcomings of others. This you would call hypocrisy. Many people fall into this category. This type | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| case becomes infinitely more difficult when the same hypocrisy becomes subtler and more deeply buried. Good desires | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the first category, the most primitive form of hypocrisy, is distasteful, therefore you suppress your true emotions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| do, or whether they are an almost conscious hypocrisy, the outer mask must be dissolved in order | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in the wrong direction; it stands for dishonesty, hypocrisy, cowardice, avarice, selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static principle | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in the other attitudes linked to pseudo-solutions. Pride, hypocrisy, and pretense are present in all of them | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and goodness are also considered as weakness and hypocrisy, not only in their distorted forms as in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| unrealistic and unrealizable. They, too, include pride and hypocrisy: pride, because this detachment seems so godlike in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| cease because religion will lose that tinge of hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness that it so often has for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| than you actually are, is not only dishonesty, hypocrisy and self-deception, but it also leads you more | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| feeling, and the second by the self-deception and hypocrisy of pretending the opposite, and not making restitution | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| under this exaggerated vulnerability still lies a certain hypocrisy, as well as a warding off against further | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in addition to these violations, become hypocritical. The hypocrisy may not be crass and obvious, but its | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| projecting your real guilt on others, blaming, self-whitewashing, hypocrisy, and so on. Therefore you become more convinced | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| spiteful non-givingness, as you come out of the hypocrisy and hiding of the little ego. You will | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| moral standards. Such claims go way beyond ordinary hypocrisy. A hypocrisy so deep-rooted and so pernicious required | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Such claims go way beyond ordinary hypocrisy. A hypocrisy so deep-rooted and so pernicious required a strong | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Hypocritical................8 | |
| if this is your lower self, and becoming hypocritical and fooling yourself. Even if you cannot or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the power type is just as dishonest and hypocritical, because such a person, too, needs human warmth | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a type hides under the rationalization of how hypocritical the goody-goody type is. Since this idealized self-image | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| really helped and has often made people more hypocritical. They deluded themselves that they were loving while | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| opposite, you, in addition to these violations, become hypocritical. The hypocrisy may not be crass and obvious | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to conceal your destructiveness. All these masks are hypocritical. They always display the opposite of what you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| own destructiveness -- when you cease to be hypocritical on this most subtle of levels. So you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| does not pay. Although it is self-serving and hypocritical, this phase is temporarily necessary, until more maturity | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Hypothesis..................3 | |
| of reincarnation was touched again. Reincarnation as a hypothesis was doubted and rejected by someone, and the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deeper understanding. When they find the truth, their hypothesis becomes an experiential fact. The development of human | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| can do it. Accept this possibility as a hypothesis to begin with, until you know that it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |