| Instantaneous...............3 | |
| remorse that this act will cause may be instantaneous. You long for a state of being in | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gracefully, will be in you as an almost instantaneous knowing, out of which the appropriate act will | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| laws of the spirit world, where movement is instantaneous, one with thought. Communication is a most important | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Instill.....................3 | |
| fulfill the child's every whim. They do not instill a sense of responsibility in the child so | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| may try all sorts of artificial ways to instill self-confidence in yourself, but it will never work | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to judge, to punish, to put down, to instill fear of life and God, to make a | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Instinct....................89 | |
| ANSWER: It is like this: What you call instinct is nothing but the sense that perceives what | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| I keep a harmonious balance within myself between instinct and intellect? Do I give enough room within | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| room within me to the activity of the instinct -- or whatever you want to call it | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| can positively know whether a right and good instinct or a wrong and false one guides you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is just as often confused with the sex instinct which, like eros, also manifests as a great | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| true marriage will have the mature and healthy instinct to find the right partner. The same applies | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| understood when you grasp these truths. Raw sexual instinct also enters into the longing for this great | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| anything pertaining to sex is sinful. The sex instinct arises in the infant. The more immature the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of the belief that sex was sinful, the instinct could not grow and meld with the love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to do so increasingly -- that the sex instinct is as natural and God- given as any | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to develop is so much slower. If the instinct of destruction is strong, it is a product | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| product of the anti-life force; if the life instinct is small, if the will to live is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the highest form. Intuition is never wrong. An instinct can be wrong. It can be harmful, it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is intuition, it must be conscious, while an instinct may remain unconscious. It may be an urge | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| have discussed is as follows: The awakening sex instinct mingles with the longing to be loved by | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the conflict is aggravated. When the awakening sex instinct turns to the other parent, the one who | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| spirit while they are not yet purified, their instinct for survival would be too weak. They have | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| be kept from us, lest it weaken the instinct for survival. It seems to me that the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| was asked about fear and the mismanagement of instinct in that regard. Instinct is natural to us | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and the mismanagement of instinct in that regard. Instinct is natural to us in the normally functioning | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| being. Would you comment on the mismanagement of instinct in that regard? ANSWER: It is connected with | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| never knowing when to trust your intuition or instinct and when not to. As you cease being | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| All fears, with the exception of the healthy instinct of self- preservation, are based on illusion and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| I would like to ask you if the instinct for self-preservation has anything to do with a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| But in reality this is not so. The instinct of self- preservation, if unblurred by all layers | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self-development and purification does not come from the instinct of self-preservation. This is really nothing but rationalization | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the rejection of love. There is the basic instinct to live and the rejection of it. By | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same fundamental problem, calling it the life instinct versus the death instinct, or the pleasure principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| calling it the life instinct versus the death instinct, or the pleasure principle versus the reality principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| versus the other. Often the gratification of an instinct or the fulfillment of a wish may produce | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| human instincts as they appear in distortion: the instinct of self-preservation and the instinct of procreation. These | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| in distortion: the instinct of self-preservation and the instinct of procreation. These instincts in their pure form | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| become warped and no longer work constructively. The instinct of survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Here is a typical example of how the instinct of self- preservation shifts into a wrong channel | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| degree by every person in childhood. When the instinct of self-preservation is distorted, it fights against this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| imagined slight occurs. This disharmony is your distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety or | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| because, unconsciously, this seems protective. When healthy, the instinct of self-preservation will lead a person to refrain | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| refrain from self-endangering activity. Yet when the distorted instinct of self- preservation operates, inner or outer action | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is therefore not attempted. The perversion of the instinct of self-preservation brings in its wake further distortions | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| which may or may not manifest physically. The instinct of procreation includes more than the physical continuation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| yearning for pleasure supreme is connected with the instinct of procreation. In distortion, when psychological difficulties are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| dealt with and pseudo- solutions are adopted, this instinct can also be led into a wrong channel | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| vent to it. In such cases the perverted instinct of self-preservation is stronger. But that does not | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| described in this lecture, the distortion of the instinct of procreation, causes the other person to withdraw | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| On the other hand, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation, creating the restrictive, holding back, inverted | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| myself. Is that a perversion of the self-preservation instinct? ANSWER: You are quite right. The perversion of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are quite right. The perversion of the self-preservation instinct is resistant to any change or growth. That | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| safety and security through the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation, as well as happiness and pleasure | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| happiness and pleasure through the distortion of the instinct of procreation. This is always the underlying force | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| another, and also the particular distortion that each instinct causes when the soul is disturbed. A distortion | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| give up the pseudo-solutions. The function of the instinct of self-preservation is to maintain and safeguard life | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| master life. In general, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation leads the soul to adopt the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to adopt the quest for power. The distorted instinct of procreation leads the soul to the quest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| soul to the quest for love. Yet either instinct may serve both ends, since safety as well | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| be a little more specific. If the self-preservation instinct is distorted, the following process occurs: The young | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| an atmosphere of danger. In that instant the instinct of self-preservation starts to work. In order to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and beyond the character distortions that the distorted instinct of self- preservation ordinarily brings in its wake | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| different terms than those mentioned here. The distorted instinct of self-preservation will lead to the pseudo-solution of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| does not understand me. In contrast, the distorted instinct of procreation contains the pleasure drive, the yearning | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is not forthcoming, the distortion of the procreation instinct becomes conducive to the pseudo-solution of submissiveness, compliance | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are bound to overemphasize and therefore distort the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore the instinct of procreation must | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| therefore distort the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore the instinct of procreation must, to some extent at least | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| disturbances are bound to set in. The thwarted instinct of self-preservation tries to compromise; you will risk | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct of self-preservation and its pseudo-solution, the quest for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| soul will starve and stagnate. If the distorted instinct of procreation and its pseudo-solution, the quest for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains only one distorted instinct. It is not as simple as that. Find | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to use its vocal cords. It has an instinct with the function of promoting the growth of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be free of any imperfection, of any immoral instinct, makes you hide it. You feel, I should | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fully comprehend as yet. In other words, your instinct of self-preservation is at work when not required | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have often said, sexuality is a natural, healthy instinct. If it matures properly, it combines with mutuality | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it harder to live in sloth because the instinct of self-preservation finally takes over when circumstances become | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of course, but he was functioning mostly on instinct. Only slowly did the function of the brain | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| occurrence. Another example is the sexual and erotic instinct which in its nature is entirely creative and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| on its sinfulness so often causes this creative instinct to remain self-centered, in hiding and, if expressed | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| grow out of separateness. By thwarting this creative instinct, not only is emotional fulfillment hindered and impaired | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| by promiscuity? QUESTION: You speak of the sex instinct as natural and right. But just how far | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| it perceived so darkly? Why doesn't a death instinct, a yearning for death exist, as, for example | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| for death exist, as, for example, the strong instinct to lose oneself in love? Why must death | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to avoid such a destructive escape, the life instinct must be very strong. And it can operate | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| your fear of the unknown, so your life instinct can prevent you from choosing death out of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| longer needs to be fled so your life instinct will no longer have to oppose the death | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| will no longer have to oppose the death instinct; they will be one and the same. You | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| persecuted? What should be their attitude? ANSWER: The instinct of self-preservation will most certainly make them fight | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the whole personality, the more certainly does this instinct function in choosing the right defense at the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| pain. Thus a social conscience developed from the instinct of self- preservation. But mere expedience dictates this | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| will not need to deny your own natural instinct that wants to reach out, that wants the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| self-awareness, so much that the fear displaces the instinct of self-preservation. The ego misuses this instinct to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the instinct of self-preservation. The ego misuses this instinct to preserve its present awareness. Fear always distorts | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as yet unknown to your conscious mind. Your instinct is to battle against disorder and imbalance. Yet | 228 BALANCE |