| Appearances.................20 | |
| for special purposes -- alters and assimilates the appearances of the surroundings. Through this process some of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out. You will soon stop being deceived by appearances. Your shyness may be open; the other person's | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| really are. Look behind the apparent positive outer appearances. Use your findings, your images and wrong conclusions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| be desired. But we are not concerned with appearances. We are not even concerned with your thoughts | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| always thought. You are deeply convinced despite occasional appearances to the contrary, that the outer world is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believes they are free, and, according to all appearances, they defy conformity. But whenever the stringent need | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| than blame the other, regardless of how much appearances may lend a hand for such rationalizations. By | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of the divine within you, again, regardless of appearances? This way is always open, and whenever you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| with deprivation. The call of life disregards outer appearances and shortsighted sentimentality. It surges toward bringing all | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| exists, it exists only for the sake of appearances, and not because the individual is really concerned | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is not in the least concerned with outer appearances or with what others think, but exclusively with | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| view of superficial considerations, when judging according to appearances and in possession of fragmentary truths -- but | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| responsible for your suffering, no matter what the appearances are. If you do not blame anyone, but | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| may have to go through a number of appearances on this earth plane in which their activating | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| reality of living, not for the sake of appearances but for the sake of what is, if | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to the undesirable event, no matter what the appearances to the contrary may indicate. The moment you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| prevalent tendency to live for the sake of appearances, rather than for the sake of truth and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| an experienced fact. On the human level of appearances this process creates conflict. Human beings long for | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to fear -- no matter what the momentary appearances may be. The problem is not that you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images were nourished; pride and vanity were | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Appearance's................3 | |
| than your own standards. Do not live for appearance's sake in any area of your life. Live | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| attitude that you do what you do for appearance's sake, rather than for yourself. Finding your own | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not pretend; I do not do anything for appearance's sake. Of course I do not refer to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Appearing...................7 | |
| you will begin to feel the almost physically appearing clot in you. And when you find it | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at all costs. Both crude types -- often appearing in more subtle mixtures and combinations -- represent | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| usual answer is that your are afraid of appearing less in the eyes of others, less lovable | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| because you are so reluctant to give up appearing to be more than you think you are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| feelings are one and the same energy current, appearing in different frequencies and degrees of condensation. The | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| without it having developed organically. The pretense of appearing perfect -- which may apply to specific aspects | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| will. In a human life, the underlying consciousness, appearing in matter in order to fulfill a specific | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Appease.....................21 | |
| content is very different. When you try to appease the other person, you want something. In fact | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you an example. Submissive people, always ready to appease, to be overly modest and never to take | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| fear, nor from the desire to please and appease a more powerful person, being, or authority. Obedience | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a humiliating, though often very subtle, tendency to appease. This has the additional crippling effect of causing | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| helplessness and desire for protection, the tendency to appease and be falsely good. By finding, tracing, understanding | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| bad to me. But if I obey and appease, chances are that he will be well disposed | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| consolation for your fears, as an attempt to appease God to get what you could easily obtain | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| more hurt, but less, my friends. When you appease or submit, when you give up or allow | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| truth, do not seek to make you conform, appease, bow down, and accept something against your will | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| The motives may be wanting to obey and appease others and come from your idealized self- image | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it comes from fear, guilt, or wanting to appease so as to be protected, then that has | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of his own projection. Thus he begins to appease, to cajole, to submit to, and become subdued | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| arbitrariness of a willful God he has to appease by man-made and superimposed rules. But I might | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| spirit of giving, and not in order to appease, whether someone else or your own offended conscience | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the superimposed conscience. With it, you hope to appease, coerce and force, as it were, your parents | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of having to give in in order to appease your friend and avoid further damage to yourself | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to which the personality resorts to placate and appease others. The ways of defending yourselves are psychologically | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| tendency to submit to others, to conform and appease, which you do solely to gain approval from | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| it for one's own sake and not to appease and appear good in the eyes of others | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the positive and believing in the worst to appease the gods, as it were, is destructive. You | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| hard you may try to deny it or appease it with false substitutes, unless you open yourself | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Appeased....................3 | |
| sense that the world at large must be appeased. This can be felt also toward certain people | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a God who needs to be implored and appeased. Finding the true nature of this power is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| At the moment, you may be gratified and appeased and feel safe. But how long can you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| Appeasement.................12 | |
| becomes conducive to the pseudo-solution of submissiveness, compliance, appeasement. The quest for love is supposed to solve | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to receive pleasure, with all the accompanying self-effacement, appeasement, self-denial, and masochistic sacrificing, the underlying core may | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| this set of emotions. Whenever fear, timidity, nonassertion, appeasement, and obedience predominate in a personality, rebellion must | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| rules, you may be certain that fear, cringing appeasement, and helplessness also exist, though hidden from awareness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| where there is outer religious faith, obedience, and appeasement, try to find not only the clinging helplessness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and false toughness; or a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of humiliation you will develop humility. From clinging appeasement and blind obedience -- often without understanding -- | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| examine for a moment the difference between submissiveness, appeasement, and the unprotected, vulnerable real self which should | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and with healthy interdependence. On the other hand, appeasement, obedience, and dependency derive from the same greed | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| pseudo-solution of aggressiveness, or withdrawal from life, or appeasement, which robs you of your integrity. All these | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| does their relationship fluctuate between domination, rebellion, submission, appeasement and resentments. Both want something from each other | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| there is a right versus a wrong, such appeasement robs you of self- respect and you fight | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| Appeasing...................8 | |
| previous answer. There is a tendency of cringing, appeasing, and submitting to the most feared person. This | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, they cringe like the predominantly fearful and appeasing type, but are ashamed of this weakness, as | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in atoning for your rebellion against God by appeasing Him even more with fearful obedience that is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| give in to the needs, and by submitting, appeasing, and complying you become most angry with and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| right to exist. All the psychological aspects of appeasing, betraying, and self-alienation simply indicate that you have | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| must cling to the superimposed conscience, obeying, conforming, appeasing, and blindly following it. Never developing the independent | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| happen is weakness, not love; fear, not goodness; appeasing and encouraging abuse, not constructive living. It destroys | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| solely to gain approval from others. Submitting and appeasing lead to nothing but sharp resentments and further | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Applied.....................57 | |
| continuous balancing. The acquired knowledge must always be applied on a personal level, digested and evaluated within | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to become genuine inner knowledge and so be applied in a personal, productive way. Only by following | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will show you how the prayer can be applied in a very personal way and how it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| spiritually. Unfortunately, it is often misunderstood and wrongly applied. To build clean and proper thoughts according to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| might say that your word initiation could be applied. QUESTION: The medium wanted to ask a question | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| There are no definite rules that can be applied with everyone in the same way. It depends | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| principles hold true, but the way they are applied must vary because the free will of the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the child concludes after the shock must be applied to everyone else, to life in general. This | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| as such; it is even more so when applied to people and situations other than those in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| doctors know it or not -- than badly applied or arrested development in mediumship disproves the value | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is not sought while the outer remedy is applied of necessity. So, for instance, war is certainly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| this path as a whole, but should be applied to every step on it. You may be | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| used this knowledge properly. You have not yet applied it to all levels of your being. You | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| ANSWER: Such terms as halfway in-between cannot be applied here. It is a philosophical concept. It is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| certainly the same. QUESTION: Could this concept be applied to our tonal system, within and beyond the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the setup, it may still be a half-truth applied to any individual case, for many personal characteristics | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Nevertheless, these conclusions are wrong and unrealistic if applied as a general truth of life. The same | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| conclusions and deductions the intellect forms correctly as applied to the temporary circumstances of certain conditions in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| teaches the opposite. When psychological understanding is properly applied and assimilated, you will become a happier person | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The light of conscious reasoning has to be applied to these very emotions you never allowed yourself | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| possible. No forceful measures will have to be applied either to one's own feelings or to the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| entire body -- or person. In psychological terms, applied to your life, the movement of your feet | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the use? Yes, this mood can sometimes be applied to outer things happening to you that seem | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| modern psychology we frequently hear the word schizophrenia applied to people who are psychotic. According to your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| All this has to be individually found and applied. My advice is to ask yourself, How do | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| spiritual values, which up to now you have applied more to actions and thoughts than to feelings | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| referred mainly to crass outer manifestations, particularly as applied to certain personality structures. But this aspect also | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| outer occurrence. A one- time experience is falsely applied to an event of an entirely different nature | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| consciousness, for in consciousness, proper understanding could be applied, so that the movement of the life force | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| learned, is immensely helpful and has to be applied in this direction. Observation and questioning of your | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| always available, always present and ready to be applied not only to great, important issues; this super-intelligence | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| could not genuinely get or become. Clear realizations applied to specific areas of your inner and outer | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| an erroneously assumed, devastating judgment that you thought applied to you. When you allow the clear-cut, concise | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| any way that the cosmic force can be applied in some way directly to human beings by | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The moment it becomes conscious, reason can be applied. Your sense of fairness will then be directed | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. Therefore these threefold aspects must first be applied to yourself. How do you perceive yourself? How | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| holds true for the self and is also applied to others. 3)Once a person with this | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| same within and among individuals, it cannot be applied to another human being unless it has first | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| another human being unless it has first been applied to one's inner self. If the divergent parts | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| commitment to the Ultimate Creator must become total, applied to the most seemingly insignificant aspect of daily | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of that other person. Unless this key is applied, relationships must falter or become stale, and mutuality | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| So, the principle of mutuality must first be applied to the relationship between you and your inner | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| being. The approach I suggest here can be applied by everyone. It serves to make you more | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| be used provided it is rightly understood and applied. This path is first and foremost a process | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| ego from the greater reality. Meditation can be applied to all life experiences, both inner and outer | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and expressions which can safely be generalized and applied to all of you who have reached the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| if the search for the divine nucleus is applied to the separated ego. Ambitiousness and competitiveness are | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| will be heard and its wisdom can be applied to where it is most needed. On this | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| So the topic of this lecture can be applied only at a very specific juncture. The popular | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| previously learned on lower levels can now be applied to a higher evolutionary level. The lessons learned | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| well aware of these tendencies, but you have applied them exclusively to the parental situation: you, as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| no macrocosmic event that cannot also be immediately applied to your personal development, your growth, your self-confrontation | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| to convince himself of his own value. This applied to animals, to peoples whom he subjugated through | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| corners of the earth. But it is often applied on top of the confusing fog and the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| are merely symbolic representations and messages to be applied to the inner life. Only when you become | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| helper, where this new attitude needs to be applied most urgently. Find the specific areas where you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| will to know God and His will are applied to all issues can God manifest to you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |