| Anyhow......................3 | |
| this task. If not, God's spirits will withdraw anyhow. After all, money is only one of the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| preferring to convince yourself that everything is senseless anyhow, so why do anything at all? You human | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| though consciousness were responsible for the energy flow. Anyhow, from your vantage point this expression will be | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Apathetic...................9 | |
| will not be lazy. You will not feel apathetic. You will not desire to remain idle. You | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a healthy ambition -- and is lethargic, withdrawn, apathetic, and indifferent. This person comes into contact with | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| will not withdraw, and therefore will not become apathetic. Sloth always indicates selfishness. If you are too | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| will, if you are resigned and withdrawn, become apathetic and are too fearful to want to lead | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| against it. When you are constantly tired and apathetic, or when you constantly find yourself in the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| rights. You feel you must become passive and apathetic and no longer try to fulfill yourself and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| solutions do. The farther you flee, the more apathetic you become, for, naturally, at this point healthy | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the service of lower-self aims, while keeping an apathetic, passive attitude toward the good you desire to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| receive from life. Or you are passive and apathetic when you are enveloped in the negativities that | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Apathy......................19 | |
| indignation would be leveled to a state of apathy. The other inquired about the validity of righteous | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| living by a feeling of tiredness and even apathy. This can make you feel angry and guilty | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| this has nothing to do with laziness or apathy. You will enter the full flow of life | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| precarious. Compulsive overactivity as well as laziness and apathy stem from an identical root. You will find | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sin is SLOTH. Sloth is the indifference and apathy that I just mentioned. Sloth represents the pseudo-solution | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| withdrawal from living and loving. Where there is apathy, there is rejection of life. Where there is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| them. Nothing produces more waste than sloth, or apathy, or withdrawal -- whatever name you give it | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| manifest or it may take shape as sloth, apathy, stagnation or a sense of utter drabness, where | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and hostility -- all these emotions and many | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| too extreme, or it may give in to apathy and stagnation. On this path, you often detect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| passivity has converted into its distorted form of apathy. By this time you have little invigorating life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| a state knows that the static lifelessness of apathy contains a much greater terror than any live | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| expresses itself in your awareness as laziness, inertia, apathy, even as not wanting to do things or | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| limited; they are numb, lifeless, and trapped in apathy. They are distrustful, negative, and withdrawn from life | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| state is needed, but relaxation is not passive apathy, paralysis or inertia. True relaxation is a constant | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| issue at all. Laziness is a manifestation of apathy, stagnation and paralysis, a result of stagnant energy | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a particular level and kind of struggle with apathy, passivity and lack of initiative, however. You know | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| do not move out of their resistance and apathy to do so. They do not fulfill their | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| is even worse; it is a state of apathy, unaliveness, confusion and secondary pain. It is a | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Apparatus...................6 | |
| exist quite independently of your outer volitional thinking apparatus. At first human beings are completely unaware of | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| consciousness. Consciousness is, among other things, a thinking apparatus. Thus it thinks -- and, lo, something comes | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| whole system, your whole organization of the human apparatus grows, you become more acclimatized to happiness, to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| alternatives in the way you set your thinking apparatus. This is an exciting endeavor and one that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| positive tradition and positive change in its marvelous apparatus of digestion, elimination and assimilation. A great blessing | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| that lies may be whispered into your thinking apparatus, you will not use your capacity to question | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Appearance..................91 | |
| Only those who penetrate all the layers of appearance and of delusion will reach the real guilt | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| overlapping spheres I have described would change in appearance. Humankind would strengthen and enlarge the disharmonious spheres | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| God they are, but have a similar outer appearance to those they visit. They will, with rare | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment higher beings descend into darker worlds, their appearance automatically, according to law -- unless special measures | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are distinguished from one another by special marks, appearance of robes, and so on. Each created being | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| on this earth; yet human shape or outer appearance does not give an indication of the entity's | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| on creativity? I myself have experienced the sudden appearance of a new talent and creativity, as you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| A further complication is that often the outward appearance does not correspond to the inner situation. Outwardly | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| general concepts of love, at least in outer appearance, taught in some religions and philosophies. It seems | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Even those who understand that Jesus' resurrection and appearance indicate the continuation of spirit life do not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| distortion is promoted by giving to falsehood the appearance of truth. If you follow the history of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| do so, but your inner reactions belie the appearance. It is often said that one sign of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| demands that you discard the outer mask of appearance and that you muster the courage to admit | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| no tension. You are not concerned with the appearance of your act in the eyes of others | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| truthfully, not superficially, nor for the sake of appearance. I do not have to be great. I | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| so than another deed that has the opposite appearance. This is very confusing for you. Evaluating someone | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you make the effort to look behind the appearance -- behind the outer manifestation -- when you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| All your energies are geared to creating the appearance that what you want exists in your life | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| occasional contact with the inner center gives the appearance that two minds, two beings, are present. When | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| general, material values, physical health and outer life, appearance and activity; there is also one's attitude to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| honestly to the business of living but makes appearance and pretense the criteria according to which one | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| love with a superficial veneer that gave the appearance of love. Such cover-up is often mere self-deception | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| someone else. Such dependency may have the superficial appearance of love, but you have already experienced in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| building new physical or mental skills. The first appearance of effortless, spontaneous unification will be incomplete. It | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| When the self is concerned only with its appearance in the eyes of others, regardless of the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| They, too, are one, beyond the level of appearance. The dissension is caused not by actual differences | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| reasons that may keep you hooked on this appearance level and abandon it, just as you needed | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will to be good for the sake of appearance, for the sake of denying the lower aspects | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you. By that I mean, give up the appearance, the pretense that evil does not exist in | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| your money, your possessions, your surroundings, your personal appearance. Arrange your day in such a way that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| If it exists on faulty premises based on appearance, on confusing the outer life with the inner | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Shame is the emotion concerned with vanity and appearance. Perhaps you are ashamed to expose something in | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| into manifestation. This particular creation has made its appearance on this level of reality. However, before this | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and events take on an isolated and disquieting appearance. You have to make connections primarily between your | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| not, even if on a superficial level of appearance it temporarily seems otherwise. Only in the dualistic | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| connect with this reality, the superficial, illusory outer appearance will become much easier for you to deal | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| how the physical organs, the body, the whole appearance change from infant to child to adolescent to | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| behind it. Their approach is based mainly on appearance and on superficial, dualistic, ego-oriented ways. The same | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| forevermore in your life. 232. BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION Greetings and divine blessings for | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| being values and the other is that of appearance values. We have talked about them in a | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Most human beings function on the level of appearance values. Only the most evolved, who have already | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| what is, and not for the sake of appearance in the eyes of others. Here, too, as | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| areas still be bound to the importance of appearance. Only gradually, in the course of this pathwork | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| begun, humanity functions in most areas with the appearance values. Now let us see the difference. Appearance | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| appearance values. Now let us see the difference. Appearance values always aim to create an impression. Such | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| causes a tremendous amount of anxiety. Therefore the appearance value system is insidious and poisonous. It is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| not so subtle. Actually the value system of appearance, as opposed to the value system of being | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| being, makes all the difference in the world. Appearance values, no matter how strong and apparently loving | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| daily activity in the spirit of being, not appearance. When you act for the sheer sake of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| as you operate with the value system of appearance, you will feel totally devastated. How can it | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| centered as long as you are governed by appearance values, but you are unaware of it when | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| does shake your foundation. If you operate with appearance values, your foundation is shaken and even seems | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| shaken and even seems to crumble when your appearance is negative. This does not happen when you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| be described in words. When you operate with appearance values, you have no identity. You make your | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| has not yet been established. As long as appearance values hold sway underneath the surface, you constantly | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| put so much emphasis on the level of appearance. You cannot connect with your higher self. Since | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| But when this spirit is not there and appearance values reign, you can never really answer questions | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you unfortunately succeed in stifling awareness of how appearance values undermine your integrity. The denials are the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| it, if all your energy is funneled into appearance values and you therefore lack centeredness, how can | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| want? Everything is colored and determined by the appearance values. If appearance in the eyes of others | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| colored and determined by the appearance values. If appearance in the eyes of others takes precedence over | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| praise and admiration. Therefore, when you operate with appearance values, you actually invest in not experiencing what | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| true longing. It may not conform to the appearance values you have borrowed. Many systems of appearance | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| appearance values you have borrowed. Many systems of appearance values exist, while only one being value exists | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| one set of values is hooked on the appearance level, possibly without your knowing it. Only deep | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| deep self-confrontation can yield the answer. By contrast, appearance values interfere with one another and are at | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you suffer unfulfillment, for the false goals of appearance values can never fulfill you. You hunt constantly | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| true self-identity and to your despair about it. Appearance values, as long as you adopt them, always | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| by whether you operate with being values or appearance values. So you never truly know what is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| want when you are governed and polluted by appearance values. You borrow an imagined desire that fits | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| borrow an imagined desire that fits into the appearance value system you have adopted. And when you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| want and really are. When you function with appearance values, you cannot trust your perceptions or your | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| they are tainted by the falsehood of the appearance value system in which you live and with | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the will of God. When you function with appearance values, the will of God actually is, or | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the will of God. They are dictated by appearance values. Such desires and God's will are opposites | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| see quite easily that when you function with appearance values and are consequently disconnected from the truth | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| feeling. Look at how this emanates from the appearance level by which you function. As you see | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| feel distrustful of yourself because you operate with appearance values. You think then so little of yourself | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| in the error and lack of integrity of appearance values, you insult your inherent divine manifestation. This | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the sake of others, for the sake of appearance. So if you seek perfection -- a divine | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| world. Alternatively, you may put on a false appearance faith. The self-judgments that you do not face | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a false, mask-self acceptance that is only an appearance. You can see very clearly, my friends, that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of being. Each level has its main pulsatory appearance. Consciousness, the feeling body, the system of the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| consists of its main pulse, causing its very appearance in matter, but it also contains sub-pulse systems | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| had to be celebrated and symbolized by the appearance of a human being. At that time in | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| vision of the thing. When psychology made its appearance on earth, it was for you entirely new | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| They cannot possibly create the controversy that the appearance of psychological realities created on your earth sphere | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| The mask self claimed greed, calculating self-interest, prideful appearance values, and the mutual using of each other | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| is true indeed that on the level of appearance duality is a fact. Life seems to die | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| removed from one another on the level of appearance, because of time. You have already experienced that | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| in your life and its inner cause. Its appearance seems inexplicable and inconsequential. To establish the causal | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |