| Ideally.....................4 | |
| supposed to be a servant, never a master. Ideally the will should serve equally the reasoning process | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| it should be and could be, not only ideally speaking, but realistically. One day it will be | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and partakes of something greater within. In the ideally healthy life all of these experiences are sought | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a living and physical reality. This can also ideally happen through the melding of a man and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Ideals......................20 | |
| have deep convictions about their own ideas and ideals, wrong as they may be in themselves. If | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| length, not from the point of view of ideals you cannot now attain, but rather from a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| discovery of where you fall short of your ideals will not throw you into depression, anxiety, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your personality, your thought processes, concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the more strength you take from | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you play in it, falling short of your ideals, which require that you always have perfect reactions | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| The more strongly you hold on to perfectionistic ideals of yourself, not willing to give them up | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| let go of trying to live up to ideals that you are inwardly not yet ready for | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| yourself to be without rules, laws, concepts, and ideals from outside. Without the knowledge of what is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| wish to live up to superimposed standards and ideals; you do it because you cannot accept yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| all spheres, than the best intended teachings and ideals that reach merely the surface intellect. QUESTION: When | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your helper and reveal all the comfortable illusory ideals you harbor. Maybe this voice will state that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| idealism. Young people are full of strength and ideals and, at the same time, they have violent | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| centeredness. People hinge all their opinions, goals, ideas, ideals, and even feelings on what others proclaim -- | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| unified truth. You will further notice that relinquishing ideals and convictions also feels like annihilation, for being | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| may or may not coincide with ideas and ideals you have held on the dualistic plane, but | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| but the way you experience these ideas and ideals is entirely different. In other words, your goals | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| avoid facing the unflattering facets that destroy the ideals one holds about oneself. Both are two sides | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| emotional experience. More often than not, these are ideals and theories, a philosophy you adhere to in | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| violation, according to illusory standards of perfection. Perfectionistic ideals are, as you know, extremely demanding and rigid | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| life. These are not empty promises and faraway ideals. These are the promises that life holds for | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Ideas.......................248 | |
| Creation, whether you have more or fewer false ideas is not the issue, since you have already | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| manifested, and enter. These are the usual vague ideas about the kingdom of God, false thought forms | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sounds quite different from your usual thoughts or ideas. Or you may see something that will give | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| every time you conduct the daily review. Then ideas will flow into you and will eventually furnish | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to you. Do not discard any of the ideas; do not resist them. Later on, all of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| something to go through. QUESTION: Do the great ideas start in the spirit world or do they | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spirit world who guide them accordingly. But the ideas are created in the spirit world. The entire | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| spirit world is the outpicturing of the spirit's ideas, attitudes, thoughts, and mentality. There, everything is the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| want something, or when they think or form ideas, they believe it happens in the brain. But | 18 FREE WILL |
| will be very happy to give you the ideas and the system I employ. And I may | 18 FREE WILL |
| of fantasy. It is real. For you, abstract ideas are formless. In the spirit world all abstract | 18 FREE WILL |
| are formless. In the spirit world all abstract ideas have form and substance. That is how individuals | 18 FREE WILL |
| regarding subjects and objects in abstract and concrete ideas and in language, but also in any sort | 22 SALVATION |
| ruthless ones have deep convictions about their own ideas and ideals, wrong as they may be in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is childish and primitive. But the primitive ideas some people have may be wrong too, because | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| expect conditions to change according to their own ideas, the preconceived ideas they have formed because of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| change according to their own ideas, the preconceived ideas they have formed because of this wrong basic | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you overlook the simple fact that first your ideas have to change before the vexing conditions have | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the conditions wait for you to change your ideas. I want to draw your attention to this | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| expected to change somehow, according to your own ideas from the outside, will then actually for the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| as it may seem. Try to formulate your ideas and begin with your own problem in the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| will undoubtedly realize that he had some wrong ideas about spiritual truth. This lack is a hindrance | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| religious teachers who are also infected with such ideas. This is very harmful. My dear friends, what | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| therefore it is good that they believe these ideas come to them from someone on their own | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| own decisions, it may still sometimes have sound ideas and these are then adopted and those wishes | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| particular respect too, so that more and more ideas of the entity can be considered. Then there | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not left to follow through on its own ideas. Only when a case is too crass, too | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| them. These generalizations later establish themselves as preconceived ideas. The conclusions are not thought out; rather they | 38 IMAGES |
| false security in your relationships with others, in ideas, or in a distorted concept of God does | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the same sex force creates spiritual life, spiritual ideas, and spiritual concepts and principles. On the lower | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it is the fashion to smile at such ideas. Yet every human being is given a guardian | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| every sphere or world, all inanimate objects, abstract ideas and living human beings. Nothing can exist without | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the work. It is this: Take all general ideas, concepts, and principles, and make a list of | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| long, long time to live up to these ideas. Yet people have largely ignored the danger of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the second step is to set your intellectual ideas straight. It is most important to understand that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Realize that the hitherto suppressed wrong concepts and ideas have to evolve clearly into consciousness; nurse the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| some people want to believe, by misinterpreting spiritual ideas. Quite the contrary. Only by facing life's hurts | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you be good enough to give us some ideas on the subject of emotional bondage, especially on | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self can give birth to beautiful and constructive ideas which can become useful and workable in all | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| all realms, not only in the physical realm. Ideas and thoughts are alive. You have often heard | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| capable of freeing oneself of prejudices and preconceived ideas and nothing will stand in the way of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the path of self-development and still harbor certain ideas which are not in accord with truth, whether | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has probably nothing to do with his conscious ideas on the subject. I believe that the person | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manner that does not necessarily correspond to the ideas of your environment. You may think it makes | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| recessed for the summer, I presented the general ideas. Now I want to give some specifics which | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| without urgency, and therefore without any unreal, preconceived ideas of how a relationship should be and how | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| mold the person and the situation to your ideas. Thus, there is a manifest unreality in your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| again how contrary your unconscious concepts, attitudes, and ideas may be to your conscious ones. When you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| becomes more intellectualized and more open for abstract ideas. An adult is capable of understanding an idea | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Jesus and is therefore more receptive to abstract ideas. Incidentally, Jesus did not speak that way to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| far away from such thinking, such concepts, such ideas, my words could not possibly be understood. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for their tenacity in holding on to certain ideas, be they right or wrong. As long as | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| your energies, your personality, your thought processes, concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the more strength you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| emotions of prejudice, you will see that preconceived ideas have the same origin as avarice, stinginess, tightness | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| what degree. The restriction prevents assimilation of new ideas and attitudes. It also creates rigid rules of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| rigid rules of behavior and attitude; it freezes ideas and feelings as long as the basic distortion | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reality. While you may consciously have some new ideas and change certain attitudes and approaches to life | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your emotions and how your unconscious concepts and ideas govern their origin and their aim. Such pseudo-solutions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| do not live, experience, and feel these right ideas, they become powerless. They are empty. Only when | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Those are my motives. I have a few ideas as to where I can get this sense | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense will tell you so. If such vague ideas exist in you, it could be that you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| on self-responsibility. Due to the split, these positive ideas have now a counterpart in self-indulgence and self-hate | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| feel frustrated when expressing your wants and your ideas to others. See how uncertain and confused you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your disposal? Are you entirely open to new ideas, new solutions? Is your inner will active and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| as how you experience others and yourself, concepts, ideas and convictions. It is here that you will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that do not entirely accord with their preconceived ideas, they will feel less capable of experiencing fulfillment | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| wisdom to accept that one's own will and ideas are not welcome to the other person. It | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you remove your errors, your confusions, your preconceived ideas, and your dependency on the opinions of others | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not living up to outside standards and preconceived ideas, there will be no need for self-justification and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| then it comes from the mind, from superimposed ideas, from outer knowledge -- and therefore it leads | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| understand while staying completely free of all preconceived ideas. Perhaps also the past experience of the real | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| can accept them as truth. Separate yourself from ideas you cling to merely because you have done | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for this creation? With such questions, the first ideas about God come into existence. Thus, when he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| habit patterns; of clinging to old concepts and ideas that once gave you an experience and which | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| everything, even to inanimate objects, to concepts and ideas. It applies to the circumstances of living, to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to certain bodily functions, perhaps even to some ideas, or art, or nature. It will be very | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| At times you think that mutual exchange of ideas is the criterion, while at other times, it | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| aspects of life, such as the arts, nature, ideas, will take on a new form that is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of facing negative aspects, of shattering one's cherished ideas about oneself. When this is done, the fruits | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| arise. All truthful spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical concepts, ideas, or postulates have their practical application to psychological | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| children are not capable of forming their own ideas. They cannot discriminate between reason, common sense, logic | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| opposites. They depend on being supplied with the ideas and principles that serve as guideposts to growing | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| being given to them; by discriminating among the ideas they have learned and discarding what they cannot | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| cannot accept, or perhaps returning to the same ideas after discovering them by themselves. This process establishes | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| life in which you separate yourself from all ideas, groups, loyalties, and causes. This would be isolation | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Next on the scale is love for abstract ideas, principles, art, nature. The love for one's profession | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also fall into this category. Love for abstract ideas evades personal involvement with the accompanying apparent risks | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| any but the most rudimentary form. Love for ideas and principles is certainly more outgoing than the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fall under the category of love for abstract ideas and principles. You may also wonder why I | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| falls under the category of love for abstract ideas or principles and is, as such, of lesser | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| around the same pointless thoughts, complaints, self-pity, self-deceptive ideas and subterfuges, it will, of necessity, result in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nonetheless exist. In all these confusions of unconscious ideas, he thwarts his masculinity in its natural and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| between modern psychology and spiritual, metaphysical or philosophical ideas vanishes. The so-called spiritual, and until that moment | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Its sexual instincts thrive without these concepts and ideas. If guilt and a sense of sin do | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| sinful and perverse. The child soon absorbs these ideas, even when they are not expressed directly, because | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| unconsciously almost all human beings harbor some distorted ideas on this subject. These distorted concepts create fear | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| very significant recognitions. The world harbors many untruthful ideas about what is specifically masculine and feminine, making | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| often connected with the faulty God-image. Such false ideas make your wish capacity weak, preventing it from | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| state of being. Those limitations are the wrong ideas you have about life, about yourself, and about | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| misconceptions. Now, these fears are founded on false ideas, and one must find out for oneself that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| one must find out for oneself that these ideas are false. One must learn finally that one | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| developed. ANSWER: Yes, that is true. Any other ideas? COMMENT: I think we often can't get the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| approach them simultaneously from two directions. All false ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create tense, harsh, rigid | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the fact that it is based on false ideas, assert your wish to be helped in understanding | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| moment you know you are driven by false ideas, you are no longer operating with blind automatism | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| effects of negative patterns, destructive emotions, and false ideas. It means understanding that these elements are damaging | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| forces surrounding you. When you cling to false ideas your personal world falls into disorder. Our common | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| other- centeredness. People hinge all their opinions, goals, ideas, ideals, and even feelings on what others proclaim | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| centered deep within the self, deriving values, goals, ideas, and actions from within, assuming responsibility for them | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are always the result of stale, stagnant, obsolete ideas that remain unquestioned. If you dare not question | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to remove all obstructions within yourself, all false ideas that keep you fenced in. To the degree | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and impressing it over as yet unrecognized, untruthful ideas is merely self-deception, superimposition. It cannot create a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| can you impregnate yourself with the corresponding truthful ideas? The constant interaction between these two approaches is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| progress, the inner vessel brings forth the false ideas, wrong conclusions, problems that do not really exist | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the aim. So long as people harbor false ideas, the original oneness is split. On either side | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| dispel the confusion about apparent contradictions in philosophical ideas about life, but, even more important, it may | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the ego connected with selfwill? ANSWER: Indeed. False ideas, as well as selfwill, are naturally a result | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego to give up both selfwill and false ideas. Only the ego can do so. The ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you with new, stimulating, challenging thoughts, outlooks and ideas. It will lead you into feelings of truth | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| health and wisdom, to give you the right ideas for removing the separating wall. Request it to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| this could happen, and even if I have ideas, I will allow for the greater intelligence and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of the mental law is that of false ideas. We have talked about this in many different | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| dualistic plane, with its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and fear. When this live | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| process of questioning the verity of your limited ideas, the correctness of what you assume to be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| state. They can help destroy illusions and erroneous ideas. You cannot do this by embracing a new | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| as you know, was a result of false ideas. As these false ideas begin to crumble, the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| a result of false ideas. As these false ideas begin to crumble, the destruction may bring about | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| outer improvements may or may not coincide with ideas and ideals you have held on the dualistic | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| dualistic plane, but the way you experience these ideas and ideals is entirely different. In other words | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and alienated from your real self. With these ideas, my friends, you may see a very important | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| dare to love. Put down the very specific ideas you have. In what particular respects do you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and so is life's essence, unhampered by false ideas. Anyone observing a child can see this natural | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| harmony that has the potential for fulfillment. These ideas are not easy to grasp when you first | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of view. You will rid yourself of many ideas you believed were indispensable; you will discover natural | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| -- because the openness to look without preconceived ideas is absent -- is never entirely a result | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| by truly opening up to new aspects of ideas you have perhaps heard before but that have | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| life and their relationship to it on false ideas. These false ideas are often unconscious and form | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| relationship to it on false ideas. These false ideas are often unconscious and form the images we | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| happens by itself. In this way the ingrained ideas work as the motor force of the power | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the motor force of the power, and the ideas become self- perpetuating. They find their outer manifestation | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| find their outer manifestation in the events the ideas create. People who are as yet unaware of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| think events have nothing to do with their ideas. They ignore the creative power in themselves and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ours is aimed at bringing out the unconscious ideas and images. They are really unconscious to begin | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| experience, due to the presence of unconscious false ideas. You fear the self-perpetuating, involuntary forces. You are | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| negative because they work according to your own ideas. You ignore that once the ideas are challenged | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your own ideas. You ignore that once the ideas are challenged and found to be untrue, the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the images through recognition and through installing truthful ideas into the soul substance. They begin to observe | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| make you so tight and rejecting of new ideas that seem to threaten you. When ego control | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self and remaining in ignorance, living with false ideas. Let us begin with the fear of death | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to experience -- out of false fears and ideas -- creates an energy you cannot properly assimilate | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| deeper within me than the false fears and ideas. I no longer wish to reject experience. My | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| due to the personality's stubborn refusal and false ideas. All self- destruction is a slow form of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| beliefs and opinions, impressions and reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and fears. Collective, oversimplified labels are supposed | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| hardly ever just one thing. Contradictory opinions and ideas exist simultaneously. One set of contradictory ideas results | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and ideas exist simultaneously. One set of contradictory ideas results in other sets of contradictory reactions, counter-reactions | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| burdensome such misconceptions and confusions and mutually exclusive ideas are and what a relief it is to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| because you are so committed to your false ideas that a different mode of approach appears to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| it threatens you only because of your false ideas. The illusory assumptions compound, one leading to another | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the utterly childish side, with all its senseless ideas and beliefs. The moment this childish side is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of your assumptions, which lead you to further ideas, with their actual energy and dynamics, with all | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and once the divine self unfolds through new ideas, feelings, and depths of experience, the ego will | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| from the innermost kernel has led to erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual blindness, unhappiness, and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| nature, must not confuse spirituality with mere spiritual ideas. You must bring your living, feeling self into | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| given you a brief review to connect these ideas with the deeper understanding I now wish to | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| idea. And I do not mean merely conscious ideas and opinions. Even more important are the unconscious | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| feelings and concepts, then to eliminate the false ideas, which create fear and other negative emotions as | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| because your present feelings are based on false ideas and are destructive for you and feel unpleasant | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| or independently of your whole personality. Your wrong ideas, false fears, and unnecessary defenses create the tension | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| can constantly expand your thinking, take in new ideas, embrace new realizations, and therefore bring to yourself | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| through other mouths, and later as apparently coincidental ideas that suddenly occur to you. If you are | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| You are neither submissive nor rebellious. You consider ideas or advice from others for what they are | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| as well as giving up pet attitudes and ideas must be cultivated. Then the painful, disruptive crisis | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of this work is the articulation of these ideas. And yet, how often all of you still | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| be more accurate, aligned with truth, otherwise false ideas, or even vagueness, will create a block. If | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| energy flow, momentarily distorted due to specific wrong ideas, concepts and perceptions. Thus it is no longer | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self-expression. Such a synthesis of creativity, imagination, and ideas on the one hand, and execution on the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| characteristics from the spontaneous, effortless influx of creative ideas. Human beings are uncreative for two reasons: either | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| necessary self-discipline to follow through on their creative ideas, or they are emotionally and spiritually too contracted | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| started our work together many years ago, these ideas were at best a theory for those who | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to fulfill itself? On what beliefs, assumptions and ideas do I base the negation in contrast to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the momentary state, pretense, dishonesty, self- deception, false ideas, negation of the beauty of the universe, secret | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| begin to convey the full reality of these ideas because human language is much too limited. But | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| When issues, people, the self, the world, life, ideas and attitudes appear to be either good or | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| your selfwill, and give in to your own ideas, which often camouflage your fear of meeting yourself | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| concepts, who seek the truth and adjust their ideas and aims to it, and who purify their | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your own mind which, because of its false ideas and the negative feelings and attitudes deriving from | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| way, without hindering it with selfwill and preconceived ideas that stem from the limited outer mind. Thus | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| may come in various ways: inspiration, sudden new ideas, usually when you least expect them; new realizations | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| if you meet it constructively and without false ideas and projections, will not prove to be a | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| force fields as a result of your attitudes, ideas, concepts, and approaches to life, attract or repulse | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| applies, of course, to both real and false ideas and to consequent experience which is either productive | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| path have discovered various force fields of distorted ideas which we call images. You have experienced within | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| of the negative emotions connected with these false ideas. You have also uncovered the negative intentionality that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| image, or force field. Although you know the ideas are false, you cannot help reacting as if | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| things. This is an essential task. Your fixed ideas prevent the spirit from moving your mind and | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| only because people with their vanity have false ideas of how they should already be. The only | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| stages where you battle with your own false ideas that always create two unacceptable alternatives. When the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| thinking mind. The ability to exchange the deepest ideas and thoughts and to risk disagreement and disapproval | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Two compatible partners have to share certain fundamental ideas about life. They must also be spiritually more | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to search for, and discard if necessary, the ideas and opinions you both may hold. You also | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| are important. Do you avoid any confrontation of ideas because it is simply too uncomfortable to make | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| deal with constructively? The freedom to have different ideas can be granted only when you are both | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| will sit lightly in the saddle of opinions, ideas, and thoughts. This will make it possible to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| world that stresses the importance of the intellect, ideas, and the mind so much. Yet people live | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| They do not mentally expose their innermost beings, ideas, beliefs, dreams, aspirations, feelings, fears, goals, yearnings, insecurities | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and hopes. The world of the mind and ideas is an integral part of total sharing. And | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is involved. Wherever there are misconceptions, ignorance, false ideas, and withheld emotional matter -- spite, stubbornness, rigidity | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| let go of the mind and its preconceived ideas and its ingrained negativity. Let go of the | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| from your inner life. You are creative in ideas, alternatives, talents, richness of feelings, and the ability | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| This fullness of feelings, this wealth of creative ideas, and the ability to live in the now | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| explicit intention. Such an event reflects specific distorted ideas which, in turn, engender specific and distorted action | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| truth -- without struggle and panic, without fearful ideas of finality -- will make you aware that | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| fulfillment for you without having to impose your ideas over others, no matter how right these ideas | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| ideas over others, no matter how right these ideas may be in theory. Humanity is caught in | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that part of you. Third, seeing the false ideas and the false concepts embedded in the negative | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas, impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very hard | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that circuit there is a certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made room for | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas about yourself and your world. It is therefore | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and possibilities, as you have already learned to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in order to open your comprehension to the ideas I unfold here, we have to overcome certain | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| time is illusory anyway. But to squeeze these ideas into your human understanding, where your consciousness is | 228 BALANCE |
| degree. You may consciously embrace some of the ideas. But then there are also deeper levels where | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| reactions do not at all agree with the ideas you consciously hold. It does no good to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| It does no good to postulate these conscious ideas without also seeing where and how you deviate | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a different approach to world government and political ideas than what the ordinary politician has now. Your | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| enunciate and then examine the feelings, convictions, and ideas for their truth and their effect on your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| elicits in you. You need not abandon the ideas, but you need to admit that the ideas | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| ideas, but you need to admit that the ideas are only ideas for you, that your feelings | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| need to admit that the ideas are only ideas for you, that your feelings are far removed | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| incorporated into the deeper consciousness. The new, truthful ideas must come from the outside in order to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| is motivated by fear, distrust, ungivingness, and false ideas about what is safe and what is not | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| will. Instead, you obstruct the process with your ideas and your attitude. For as you believe, so | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to be weak, submissive, and spineless, then your ideas reflect a lack of reason and a lack | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of you have thought about it, have had ideas. So let us be a little more specific | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| spoken about this before, you often forget these ideas and do not think of your life in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| feel it in your life and in your ideas, the closer you will come to being in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| we are of course dealing with concepts, abstract ideas, values, truths, laws, and so on. It is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| perceive very simplified and cruder manifestations of these ideas, concepts and laws. To return to the concept | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| this open state, some old opinions, beliefs and ideas will be reinstated because their truth will become | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| cannot bear, so I must turn against these ideas. The stronger the inner confusion about what is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| see the good in some socialistic and/or communistic ideas. If I am progressive, I cannot be for | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| thinking whose pattern is never questioned, by rigidified ideas that people refuse to let go of, by | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to lose when you give up your fixed ideas. The new light nourishes and strengthens you, all | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| all over your world. Little by little new ideas are spreading from various sources. Since the forces | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| it is unavoidable that these new values and ideas are, at times, polluted and distorted. Nevertheless, the | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| a letting go of the ego, of cherished ideas, goals, desires, and opinions -- all for the | 254 SURRENDER |
| know, if you are open without any preconceived ideas one way or another, you will know. Most | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| need to empty your mind of all preconceived ideas your lower self has a stake in retaining | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |