Podcasts by International Pathwork Foundation

PL 1 The Sea of Life from 2014-06-04T18:50:04

Spiritual material resembles threads, fine, ray-like threads—in this case of somber color and texture—which are spun, knotted, and entangled, until there is such a tight ball of confusion that o...

PL 2 Decisions and Tests from 2014-06-04T18:48:53

[W]hen you understand that this life is one of many learning periods, one link in a long chain, you will at first sense and later comprehend more and more fully the connections. Then your goal w...

PL 3 Choosing Your Destiny—The Will to Change from 2014-06-04T18:44:59

So it is important for you, my dear ones, to recognize that many of the events in your life which seem to repeat themselves were chosen and planned by you when you still had your wider vision, b...

PL 4 World Weariness from 2014-06-04T18:43:23

T]here are a variety of possible causes for world weariness. Of course the yearning for God and perfection plays a role here too whether consciously or not, as well as the nostalgia for one’s tr...

PL 5 Happiness for Yourself or Happiness as a Link in the Chain of Life from 2014-06-04T18:42:07

How far along is any individual in this respect? Is anyone willing to give something up for the sake of another? Ask yourself: “Do I want happiness for my own sake, or is this the second conside...

PL 6 The Human Role in the Spiritual and Material Universes from 2014-06-04T18:40:22

I have said it before, but I want to repeat it: Every human being, not only a medium, can and should have personal contact with God’s world. Everybody can have it! But the conditions have to be ...

PL 7 Asking for Help and Helping Others from 2014-06-04T18:37:40

Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is a luminous ray which is invisible to you, but belongs very personally to each individual being. In ...

PL 8 Mediumship—How to Contact God’s Spirit World from 2014-06-04T18:34:55

Those who have made the decision and given themselves into the hands of God immediately sense what is happening within. The first reaction is a great relief and an inward joy that for a while co...

PL 9 Prayer and Meditation— The Lord’s Prayer from 2014-06-04T18:33:26

My dear friends, today I would like to speak about prayer and meditation. What is the difference between the two? Many people are not quite clear about it. It is always a matter of agreeing upon...

PL 10 Male and Female Incarnations: Their Rhythms and Causes from 2014-06-04T18:31:23

It is generally difficult to understand the real meaning of the teaching that the Kingdom of God is within, just as Hell is within, too. You imagine that this refers to a mood and therefore to s...

PL 11 Self-Knowledge—The Great Plan—The Spirit World from 2014-06-04T18:07:31

Deep within the heart of each human being is the longing for happiness. Now what is happiness? If you ask different people, you will receive different answers. The spiritually immature, after th...

PL 12 The Order and Diversity of the Spiritual Worlds—The Process of Reincarnation from 2014-06-04T18:05:34

One hears people say again and again, “If God exists, and there is indeed a divine order, how can it be that so many terrible things happen on earth? ” You all know, you have all learned that hu...

PL 13 Positive Thinking: The Right and the Wrong Kind from 2014-06-04T18:03:46

Doubt is the opposite of faith; and faith, my friends, is in reality nothing other than the certainty of all that you may doubt now: it is the inner experience. Inner experience cannot come into...

PL 14 The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask from 2014-06-04T18:02:44

When people are emotionally sick, it is always a sign that in one way or another a mask self has been created. They do not realize they are living a lie. They have built a layer of unreality tha...

PL 15 Influence Between the Spiritual World and the Material World from 2014-06-04T18:00:40

Tonight I wish to speak about the influence between the spiritual and material worlds. Much has been said about the influence of the world of spirit on the world of matter, but not as much about...

PL 16 Spiritual Nourishment—Willpower from 2014-06-04T17:59:15

It is not surprising if a person, confronted the first time with this phenomenon—that a spirit should indeed be able to talk through a human being—cannot readily accept it. Many things are possi...

PL 17 The Call—Daily Review from 2014-06-04T17:54:15

There are many of you who admit God exists. God or this Higher Intelligence—or whatever you choose to call it—is of course one and the same. Yet you do not believe that it could be possible in t...

PL 18 Free Will from 2014-06-04T17:50:53

The subject I will discuss tonight is free will. People are forever and ever debating this subject. One group claims there is no free will whatsoever: everything is fate or destiny. Another grou...

PL 19 Jesus Christ from 2014-06-04T17:47:30

Now who is Christ? Some Christian religions claim he is God. This is not so, for he himself has said, as you can read in the Holy Scriptures, that he is not God. He is not the Father, or the Cre...

PL 20 God: The Creation from 2014-06-04T17:44:16

I want to stress that there is no coincidence here; none of you have been drawn to this community by chance, not even those who come here once and do not stay because they lack either the spirit...

PL 21 The Fall from 2014-06-04T17:43:01

Since one of the most important divine aspects is free will or freedom of choice, this had to turn into its opposite too. The spirit who was the first to succumb to the temptation of abusing thi...

PL 22 Salvation from 2014-06-04T17:41:06

There are many ways, indeed, to test with what spirits you are communicating. Anyone who wants to judge must, under all circumstances, take the trouble to study the vast subject of how to test s...

PL 23 Questions and Answers from 2014-06-04T17:35:56

As I have promised, we will have tonight a question and answer session. From now on I will be ready to answer also personal questions in these general sessions, my friends, but only those of you...

PL Questions and Answers from 2014-06-04T17:34:16

Again I will answer your questions tonight, instead of holding a lecture. I will resume regular lectures after most of your questions have been answered. It is a very good sign if my little grou...

PL 25 The Path: Initial Steps, Preparation, and Decisions from 2014-06-04T17:32:56

Everybody knows that it is important to be a decent person, not to commit so-called sins, to give love, to have faith, and to be kind to others. However, this is not enough. In the first place, ...

PL 26 Finding One’s Faults from 2014-06-04T17:31:13

Another great misunderstanding is the mistaken idea that to follow the path I am showing you means neglecting your life in other ways. You see, my dear friends, I can observe the forms of your t...

PL 27 Escape Possible Also on the Path from 2014-06-04T17:26:57

Oh yes, the outer conflicts are always noticed, but you all know the outer conflict is only a reflection of the inner one. Yet people so often have the wrong attitude; in a very subtle way they ...

PL 28 Communication with God—Daily Review from 2014-06-04T17:25:20

It is the same way with love. If love of another human being is sought with the current that is destined for the love of God, it will always leave you with a feeling of emptiness, dissatisfactio...

PL 29 The Forces of Activity and Passivity—Finding God’s Will from 2014-06-04T17:23:15

There are twelve basic active forces and twelve basic passive forces or principles in the universe. According to the scheme of the “Pistis Sophia,” these forces are concentrated in the highest r...

PL 30 Self-Will, Pride and Fear from 2014-06-04T16:56:47

In the first place, we may again clarify that there is a distinct difference between self-will and free will. To make sure that you understand it clearly in this connection, I will repeat that f...

PL 31 Shame from 2014-06-04T16:54:40

There is a right kind and a wrong kind of shame. The right kind of shame is true repentance. Without this kind of shame, there could never be an incentive for self-development. Without it, no on...

PL 32 Decision Making from 2014-06-04T16:53:22

“All things work together for the good for those who love God. ” Let us examine this statement of the Scriptures to find its deeper meaning. The words, “those who love God” do not mean merely th...

PL 33 Occupation With Self–Right and Wrong Faith from 2014-06-04T16:52:03

Many good, kind and even spiritual people say, when hearing these lectures, that it is not good to think so much about the self. They feel it would be better to think more about other people. Th...

PL 34 Preparation for Reincarnation from 2014-06-04T16:50:35

As promised, I shall speak tonight about the process of birth. I have received permission to do so from higher authority. My dear friends, let me first tell you that whatever I will say can only...

PL 35 Turning to God from 2014-06-04T16:47:06

Many people seek God in the wrong way. I will try to explain what I mean. On this earth sphere there is a considerable amount of disappointment. Sometimes human beings turn to God only because c...

PL 36 Prayer from 2014-06-04T16:36:28

Now what is prayer? Many people have no questions about it; they just take it for granted. Many others  cannot understand prayer. They say—in their own way and not without logic—why should God g...

PL 37 Acceptance, Right and Wrong Way—Dignity in Humility from 2014-06-04T16:32:47

What is a wholehearted decision for God? It always involves giving up something. It may mean letting go of an opinion, a desire, perhaps a way of life. Yet in reality you do not give up anything...

PL 38 Images from 2014-06-04T16:28:44

This is the way we in the spirit world see images. The way you see and feel them is through unhappiness, anxiety, and puzzlement over many apparently inexplicable things in your life. For instan...

PL 39 Image-Finding from 2014-06-04T16:10:42

The best way to begin is by thinking about your hurts, conflicts, and problems. Regard your wrong inner attitudes as ignorance and error. Actually, that is what all faults really are!  Think abo...

PL 40 More on Image-Finding: A Summary from 2014-05-26T18:35:03

In the two previous lectures I started to indicate how the images can be found. This cannot be an easy process, for what dwells in the unconscious is hidden from conscious awareness. I have give...

PL 41 Images: The Damage They Do from 2014-05-26T18:31:57

I am continuing this series about the images in the human soul, for there is no person who does not have them. Such inner impressions are formed in young years, and from those impressions wrong ...

PL 42 Christmas Blessings—Objectivity and Subjectivity from 2014-05-26T18:30:48

There is a right and proper kind of self-love. Cowardice is nothing but self-pampering, self-pitying self-concern. Courage ascribes as much importance to a cause, to an issue, or to another pers...

PL 43 Three Basic Personality Types: Reason, Will, Emotion from 2014-05-26T18:29:06

There are three basic types of human personality. The first type governs his or her life and reactions mainly with reason. The second type does so mainly with emotion, and the third does so with...

PL 44 The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex from 2014-05-26T18:28:01

The erotic force is one of the most potent forces in existence and has tremendous momentum and impact. It is supposed to serve as the bridge between sex and love, yet it rarely does. In a spirit...

PL 45 The Conflict Between Conscious and Unconscious Desires from 2014-05-26T18:26:56

Your unconscious desires often deviate from your conscious ones. I think you all understand by now that this is one of the main reasons for your conflicts and frustrations. You often create simi...

PL 46 Authority from 2014-05-26T18:24:50

Authority is the very first conflict for a growing child when it reaches a certain degree of consciousness. Elders, parents or parent-substitutes, and later on teachers represent authority for t...

PL 47 The Wall Within from 2014-05-26T18:23:27

The more you learn self-honesty, the deeper can the truth penetrate into the core of the soul. But it takes a lot of doing before the core is reached. Wherever the conscious emotions, opinions, ...

PL 48 The Life Force in the Universe from 2014-05-26T18:22:16

An inanimate object is petrified life force. A beautiful idea, a truth, is flowing life force. Life force is eternal and therefore all life is eternal. Death is but an illusion. An inanimate obj...

PL 49 Obstacles on the Path: Old Stuff, Wrong Guilt, and Who, Me? from 2014-05-26T18:21:01

Identifying and analyzing your images and wrong conclusions will lead you finally to the recognition of their common denominator: The constructive attitude is: “In my ignorance I believe—perhaps...

PL 50 The Vicious Circle from 2014-05-26T18:12:34

Tonight I shall discuss one of the vicious circles that is very common among human beings. To some degree it operates in every human soul. Most of the time it lives in the subconscious, although...

PL 51 Importance of Forming Independent Opinions from 2014-05-26T18:10:14

These obstacles arise from the blindness in which you are encased and from your lack of understanding of the blindness of others. The blindness of others hurts you, and in your own blindness you...

PL 52 The God-Image from 2014-05-26T18:08:58

Children experience their first conflict with authority at an early age. I have talked at length about this. They also learn that God is the highest authority. Therefore it is not surprising tha...

PL 53 Self-Love from 2014-05-26T18:07:51

Tonight I should like to discuss the subject of self-love. You all know — I have said it again and again — that each truth can be distorted into an untruth. This is, perhaps, the most powerful w...

PL 54 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-26T18:06:43

QUESTION: The first is from someone who is not here. It concerns the Holy Ghost. It reads: May I ask the cosmic sense and the human meaning attributed to the power of the Holy Ghost? In some rel...

PL 55 Three Cosmic Principles: The Expanding, the Restricting, and the Static Principles from 2014-05-26T18:05:43

It is appropriate that we start the new season with a subject that deals with three cosmic principles existing in the entire universe. They are the expanding, the restricting, and the static pri...

PL 56 Capacity to Wish—Health and Unhealthy Motives in Desire from 2014-05-26T18:04:23

First of all, let us determine the difference between the healthy and unhealthy motives in desires. We will not concern ourselves with the motives of desires which are obviously unhealthy becaus...

PL 57 The Mass Image of Self-Importance from 2014-05-26T18:02:13

Such a universal mass image is the following: “If I receive attention or approval or admiration, all my worth is established not only in the eyes of the world but in my own eyes. If I cannot get...

PL 58 The Desire for Happiness and the Desire for Unhappiness from 2014-05-26T18:00:37

The desire for happiness is already in existence when the human entity is born. It exists in the small infant. The infant’s idea of happiness is fulfillment of all its desires instantly and in e...

PL 59 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-26T17:58:27

QUESTION: Where is the borderline between compulsion and very strong desire?

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PL 60 The Abyss of Illusion—Freedom and Self-Responsibility from 2014-05-20T21:07:12

At times I have described the path you are taking by depicting landscapes as you know them on earth. There are shrubs and thickets, narrow ledges and cliffs. At times the going is rough and tedi...

PL 61 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-20T21:05:29

QUESTION: Is the total number of spirits incarnated and discarnated finite, and if so, does that number remain constant or are there additions and subtractions?

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PL 62 Man and Woman from 2014-05-20T21:04:42

The original spirit as first created was male and female in one. When the development of all the fallen beings will have been completed, male and female shall be one again. As oneof the byproduc...

PL 63 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-20T20:59:33

QUESTION: I would like to ask something about self-responsibility. Would not self-responsibility lead to irresponsibility toward others? If I am responsible for just myself, how then am I my bro...

PL 64 Outer Will and Inner Will—Misconception About Selfishness from 2014-05-20T20:56:11

Tonight we will discuss willpower. One often hears that with the proper application of willpower practically anything can be achieved. Yet you all have had the experience that you wish very much...

PL 65 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-20T20:54:57

QUESTION: I have two questions in connection with the last lecture. The first is: I understood that the inner will you spoke of stems from the super-conscious. It was not clear to me whether the...

PL 66 Shame of the Higher Self from 2014-05-20T20:54:07

Strangely enough, people are just as ashamed of their faculties of love, humility, generosity — the very best they have to offer — as they are of the small, selfish and ungiving part of their na...

PL 67 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-20T20:53

QUESTION: In the last lecture you said in connection with raised consciousness that we will no longer be frightened of bad people. But how can I not be frightened of murders, hold-ups, and all s...

PL 68 Suppression of Positive and Creative Tendencies—Thought Processes from 2014-05-20T20:52:10

You may think it makes no sense to suppress positive aspects since only the negative is unpleasant to face and therefore only that needs to be suppressed. But this is not so. Just as frequently ...

PL 69 The Folly of Watching for Results While on the Path; Fulfillment or suppression of the Valid Desire to Be Loved from 2014-05-20T20:50:43

First of all, I should like to discuss a subject about which a few of my friends are quite confused, namely the results that your work on this path are supposed to bring. Many of my friends cons...

PL 70 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-19T20:35:06

QUESTION: In your answer to my question after the last lecture, about the right way toward the love we all desire, you described the work process of realizing, observing, and finally abandoning ...

PL 71 Reality and Illusion—Concentration Exercises from 2014-05-19T20:33:32

By becoming aware of the unreality within yourself — that is, by seeing how untrue your concepts have been and perhaps still are — you may glean a momentary recognition of reality, of its totall...

PL 72 The Fear of Loving from 2014-05-19T20:32:22

We now know that those who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity i...

PL 73 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts from 2014-05-19T20:31:24

Since children so seldom receive sufficient mature loveand warmth, they continue to hunger for it throughout life unless this lack and hurt is recognized and properly dealt with. If not, as adul...

PL 74 Confusions and Hazy Motivations from 2014-05-19T19:15:22

I cannot emphasize too strongly that you need first to find out exactly what the confusion is. Whenever something bothers you, be it merely a mood, an unpleasant inner reaction, or an actual out...

PL 75 The Great Transition in Human Development from Isolation to Union from 2014-05-19T19:11:25

Now comes a third major phase on this path. For those of you who have already gained an overall understanding about your inner problems, it will become necessary to now evaluate your hidden imag...

PL 76 Questions and Answers (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) from 2014-05-19T19:09:59

QUESTION: What is the difference between an emotionally mature and an immature person? How can you recognize it?

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PL 77 Self-Confidence: Its True Origin and What Prohibits It from 2014-05-19T19:07:28

The subject tonight will be self-confidence. What is self-confidence? When your real being, your real self, your intuitive nature manifests, there is no uncertainty in you, no doubt about your r...

PL 78 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-19T19:06:16

QUESTION: You mentioned an “inner psychological law.” Would you explain that, please?

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PL 79 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-19T19:05:16

QUESTION: What is the meaning of the Way of the Cross, its principles and its course of actions? How is it comparable to the Eastern concept, the one that follows the Buddha?

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PL 80 Cooperation, Communication, Union from 2014-05-16T15:30:17

I will, however, discuss two preliminary stages in the evolution toward union. These two stages do exist on your plane of existence and consciousness. They are, at the lower level, cooperation, and...

PL 81 Conflicts in the World of Duality from 2014-05-16T15:28:38

Having to choose between everyday alternatives that confront you often generates confusion. These alternatives are not crassly “good” or “bad”; they both stem from the same basic struggle in the hu...

PL 82 The Conquest of Duality Symbolized in the Life and Death of Jesus from 2014-05-16T15:24:47

A spiritual teaching, often misunderstood, says that one must rise above pleasure and pain. This is of course true in the ultimate sense. However, it cannot come about by flight from the unpleasant...

PL 83 The Idealized Self-Image from 2014-05-16T15:23:22

I have occasionally used the term mask self in the past. The mask self and the idealized self-image are really one and the same. The idealized self masks the real self.

PL 84 Love, Power, Serenity as Divine Attribute and as Distortions from 2014-05-16T15:22

The attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal are the distortions of love, power, and serenity. I would now like to speak in detail about how they work in the psyche, how they for...

PL 85 Distortions of the Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation from 2014-05-16T15:17:56

The instinct of survival — or self-preservation — aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its very nature it works against anything that destroys or endangers life. Just as the body ne...

PL 86 The Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation in Conflict from 2014-05-16T15:15:49

Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted soul forces lie in eliminating the pseudo-solution and replacing it with truth, which is always flexible and knows no rules. It alone can ...

PL 87 The Next Phase on the Path: Questions and Answers from 2014-05-16T15:13:25

Some of you have wondered why at the beginning my talks were of a more spiritual nature, while lately the emphasis has been more psychological. Although you all realize by now that true spiritual d...

PL 88 Religion: True and False from 2014-05-16T15:11:41

Obedience to authority has been encouraged by exponents of religion under the half-true and only partly valid argument that humanity was too much enslaved by its passions to be let free. Therefore ...

PL 89 Emotional Growth and Its Function from 2014-05-16T15:08:28

But why is the emotional nature generally neglected? There are good reasons for that, my friends. To gain more clarity, let us first understand the function of the emotional nature in human beings....

PL 90 Moralizing—Disproportionate Reactions—Needs from 2014-05-15T19:05:03

Once you stop repressing your emotions, you will find not only definite individual negative emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but also certain psychological conditi...

PL 91 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-15T19:03:58

QUESTION: In a previous lecture about emotional growth and its function, a question was asked as to how to handle very wild emotions at a time when one has no helper available. But what does one do...

PL 92 Repressed Needs—Relinquishing Blind Needs—Primary and Secondary Reactions from 2014-05-15T19:03:01

Among the needs of the idealized self are, for instance, the need for glory, the need to triumph, the need to satisfy vanity or pride. In order to understand this particular process, you have to re...

PL 93 The Link Between the Main Image, Repressed Needs, and Defenses from 2014-05-15T19:01:43

The child in you resists growth, desires to remain immature, and is burdened with unworkable wrong conclusions and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part ...

PL 94 Sin and Neurosis—Unifying the Inner Split from 2014-05-15T18:27:20

Now let us try to determine the difference between your genuine, true self and the superficial self. Whenever you act out of your real self, you are in complete unity with yourself. There is no dou...

PL 95 Self-Alienation and the Way Back to the Real Self from 2014-05-15T18:26:23

Let us first understand the human struggle as such. The very state of being human is a problem because you find yourself in an in-between state. You have awakened from a lower state, a plant or ani...

PL 96 Questions and Answers and Additional Comments on Laziness as Symptom of Self-Alienation from 2014-05-15T18:25:09

We discussed some of the symptoms of self-alienation such as: not relating to yourself and to others as you and they are in your true selves; not experiencing yourself in your true strength; not id...

PL 97 Perfectionism Obstructs Happiness—Manipulation of Emotions from 2014-05-15T18:21:43

There are many indications of true selfhood. Take for instance the capacity to experience and to give joy. You cannot give joy if you are not a joyful person. How can you become joyful living in a ...

PL 98 Wishful Daydreams from 2014-05-15T18:20:36

From our vantage point, we see you barricading yourselves behind a wall of separateness. This wall is a useless and illusory form of self-protection. In the last analysis it is simply a barricade a...

PL 99 Falsified Impressions of Parents: Their Cause and Cure from 2014-05-15T18:18:13

Once again, let us talk about love. Let us remember that anyone without love is withering away. The love you receive is not the most important, you need the love force in your heart; it is your spi...

PL 100 Meeting the Pain of Destructive Patterns from 2014-05-15T18:16:57

First, let us briefly recapitulate. To begin with, the child suffers from imperfections in the parents’ love and affection. It also suffers from not being fully accepted in its own individuality. B...

PL 101 The Defense from 2014-05-15T18:15:05

When you are on the defensive, you are frightened; you feel threatened and endangered. There certainly are realistic dangers, and the human system is equipped to deal with them. If an actual attack...

PL 102 The Seven Cardinal Sins from 2014-05-15T18:12:40

The first cardinal sin is PRIDE. I have discussed this in the past.* You all know its origin, reason, effects, and side effects. Briefly: pride is always a compensation for feelings of inferiority ...

PL 103 Harm of too Much Love Giving—Constructive and Destructive Will Forces from 2014-05-15T18:11:35

You have learned that it is very harmful to force yourself to feel love when you do not experience it. In such a case, the wrong kinds of will and love are used and therefore a negative result is p...

PL 104 Intellect and Will as Tools or Hindrances of Self-Realization from 2014-05-15T18:08:48

Your real self cannot be governed by will or by force. It is a direct manifestation, not of thought and will, but of a spontaneous, creative experience that comes into being unbidden, when least ex...

PL 105 Humanity’s Relationship to God in Various Stages of Development from 2014-05-15T18:07:20

In your daily life many possibilities are offered to you to see yourself as you are; to verify what you really feel, rather than what you try to feel. All you have to do is to remind yourself const...

PL 106 Sadness Versus Depression—Relationship from 2014-05-15T18:05:59

Let us first define the difference. In sadness you accept without self-pity a painful fact of life as something beyond your power to change. When you are truly sad, without depression, you not only...

PL 107 Three Aspects That Prevent Loving from 2014-05-15T18:04:33

Within each individual there exists a well of wisdom and love. It is a treasure deep within you which can come to the fore only as you become aware of all those aspects of yourself that bar access ...

PL 108 Fundamental Guilt for not Loving—Obligations from 2014-05-15T17:44:19

. . . little and unjustified guilts substitute for the real guilt of withdrawal, unlovingness, and isolation. In other words, these little guilts are supposed to atone for violating the great cosmi...

PL 109 Spiritual and Emotional Health Through Restitution for Real Guilt from 2014-05-15T17:43:06

The most difficult thing for a human being is to face the lower self, and it is in connection with the lower self that real guilt exists. You go to any length to avoid facing the lower self. Perhap...

PL 110 Hope and Faith and Other Key Concepts Discussed in Answers to Questions from 2014-05-13T20:54:54

QUESTION: How do faith in God and hope tie in with this path of self-purification? ANSWER: Do you see any contradiction between our path and faith in God and hope?

PL 111 Soul Substance—Coping With Demands from 2014-05-13T20:53:48

When a new child enters this earth, its soul-stuff is very malleable, very soft. Within this soul-stuff lie all the potentials — the talents, qualities, tendencies, characteristics, and also the un...

PL 112 Humanitiy’s Relationship to Time from 2014-05-13T20:52:20

Tonight I should like to discuss a new topic, humanity’s relationship to time. This is, indeed, an important subject. My words will be very helpful, if you take the trouble of pondering them and tr...

PL 113 Identification with the Self from 2014-05-13T20:44:45

And now, my friends, I wish to discuss a topic I have not gone into before, identification with oneself, as opposed to identification with others. Last time I talked about humanity’s relationship t...

PL 114 Struggle: Healthy and Unhealthy from 2014-05-13T20:43:42

People often say that life is difficult and painful, that it is a confusing and puzzling ordeal, that there is no meaning to it. They believe that they are separate from life, but they are not! Reg...

PL 115 Perceptions, Determination, Love as Aspects of Consciousness from 2014-05-13T20:33:12

Through your work of self-search, deeper levels of understanding are opened up, so that words of truth will directly reach those inner levels — or have at least a chance of doing so. It is therefor...

PL 116 Reaching the Spiritual Center—Struggle Between the Lower Self and the Superimposed Conscience from 2014-05-13T20:30:45

In this final session of the year, I would like to restate certain facets and goals of this path of self-realization. When you live unto the day without understanding the relationship between you a...

PL 117 Shame: A Legacy of Childhood Experiences, Even Favorable Ones from 2014-05-13T20:29:22

When you pursue this path, you discover certain areas in yourself that you are ashamed to acknowledge, even to yourself. What you may be ashamed of may be faults, but not always and not necessarily...

PL 118 Duality Through Illusion—Transference from 2014-05-13T20:26:52

Many manifestations of your earth life symbolize duality because so many things appear as pairs of opposites. In philosophical thinking, humankind itself is paired — man and woman, night and day, l...

PL 119 Movement, Consciousness, Experience: Pleasure, the Essence of Life from 2014-05-13T20:25:39

A long time ago, I gave a lecture about the life force. Let us look into this again with the greater understanding you have gained. The life force is a free-flowing energy current, manifest in the ...

PL 120 The Individual and Humanity from 2014-05-13T20:23:13

. . . . This will give you greater understanding and a wider vision of the relationship between the individual and the totality of all individuals. It will enable you to visualize that humanity as ...

PL 121 Displacement, Substitution, Superimposition from 2014-05-13T20:18:19

As you know from my previous talks, each emotion, each feeling, each thought, each attitude, each need is an energy-current. There are many different types of energy, corresponding to the type of f...

PL 122 Self-Fulfillment Through Self-Realization as Man or Woman from 2014-05-13T20:17:10

All who fulfill themselves contribute something to life. They enrich life not merely by using their vocational abilities but also through their ability to relate to other human beings and have frui...

PL 123 Liberation and Peace by Overcoming Fear of the Unknown from 2014-05-13T20:15:36

To the degree you are unaware of what goes on within you, you will fear the passing of time and the “great unknown.” When one is young, these fears may be assuaged. But sooner or later every human ...

PL 124 The Language of the Unconscious from 2014-05-13T20:14:15

Whatever is hidden from awareness continues to govern you without your being able, through your reason, to change it. Hence it is of utmost importance to detect such hidden erroneous outlooks.  

PL 125 Transition from the No-current to the Yes-current from 2014-05-13T20:11:01

Let us first recapitulate the meaning of the yes-and no-currents. The yes-current is the expression of the supreme intelligence and creative universal force. It is the life force, . . .

PL 126 Contact with the Life Force from 2014-05-13T17:40:16

Let us recapitulate certain aspects of the life force. The life force is profoundly intelligent. Its intelligence is always available, always present and ready to be applied not only to great, impo...

PL 127 Evolution’s Four Stages: Automatic Reflexes, Awareness, Understanding, Knowing from 2014-05-13T17:21:21

On any real path of development, regardless of the approach, the areas in which you are unfree and automatic must be revealed.

PL 128 Limitations Created Through Illusory Alternatives from 2014-05-13T17:19:04

Imagine wide open spaces, containing all the beauty of the world, all that an individual could possibly require for his or her enjoyment. But people do not see these wide open spaces. They do not s...

PL 129 Winner Versus Loser: Interplay Between the Self and Creative Forces from 2014-05-13T17:16:11

When two people involved in a relationship have adopted opposing choices, the relationship must be fraught with friction to the point of hopelessness. Each resents in the other what he or she fears...

PL 130 Finding True Abundance by Going Through Your Fear from 2014-05-09T16:03:28

There are two philosophies about life and spiritual reality which seem completely contradictory. One says that the spiritually and emotionally mature person has to learn to accept the difficulties ...

PL 131 Interaction Between Expression and Impression from 2014-05-09T16:01:49

We have, in our pathwork, two fundamental approaches, both of which are necessary. One is finding, expressing, and emptying out what is within you, so that it can be reexamined as to its truthfulne...

PL 132 The Function of the Ego in Relationship to the Real Self from 2014-05-09T15:54:38

First I wish to discuss how the inner self differs from the outer self, or the real self from the ego. What is their relationship to each other? There are many confusing theories about the function...

PL 133 Love: Not a Commandment, But Spontaneous Soul Movement of the Inner Self from 2014-05-09T15:51:40

Let us look deeper into the topic of love now. In this way we can come a step closer to obtaining the greatest of all keys to the true life — not by following forced, artificial, superimposed comma...

PL 134 The Concept of Evil from 2014-05-09T15:41:56

Numbness and insensitivity toward one’s own pain in turn means equal numbness and insensitivity toward others. When examining one’s reactions closely, one might often observe that the first spontan...

PL 135 Mobility in Relaxation—Suffering Through Attachment of the Life Force to Negative Situations from 2014-05-09T15:34:15

This cosmic movement, permeating everything that is, is a mixture of mobility and relaxation. The key of mobility,combined with relaxation, opens the world. It is the state of being, or the unitive...

PL 136 The Illusory Fear of the Self from 2014-05-09T15:28:55

The fear of the self is the basic fear behind the fear of life and even the fear of death. Neither could the fear of others possibly exist without the fear of oneself. A number of my friends are no...

PL 137 Balance of Inner and Outer Control from 2014-05-09T15:21

The separation from the center is the wall of not knowing that this inner center of wisdom, love and power exists. You therefore do not seek contact with it, hence more confusion, error and ignoran...

PL 138 The Human Predicament of Desire for, and Fear of, Closeness from 2014-05-09T15:17:02

Your relationship to another person can be successful only when you are motivated by your innermost being. If the relationship is determined solely by the outer intellect and will, these faculties ...

PL 139 Deadening of the Live Center Through Misinterpretation of Reality from 2014-05-09T15:15:26

Whenever you find yourself in a situation that is not desirable, that leaves you unfulfilled in any way, your usually vague discontent causes you to strive for another situation. A clear-cut goal-d...

PL 140 Conflict of Positive Versus Negative Oriented Pleasure as the Origin of Pain from 2014-05-07T21:39:41

The principle I explain here holds true on all levels. It is indeed ascertainable on the physical level. The physical system, like all other systems or planes, also strives toward wholeness and hea...

PL 141 Return to the Original Level of Perfection from 2014-05-07T21:38:37

Every once in a while it is important to restate what the pathwork is and what it is supposed to accomplish. It is important to always see this in a new light, from different angles. This path is n...

PL 142 The Longing for and the Fear of Happiness—Also, the Fear of Releasing the Little Ego from 2014-05-07T21:37:35

To properly let go a healthy, balanced ego is needed, not indoctrinated with false concepts, false fears, and destructive attitudes. Only then can the ego give up the direct, over-tight control wit...

PL 143 Unity and Duality from 2014-05-07T21:36:24

On the unified plane of consciousness there are no opposites. There is no good or bad, no right or wrong, no life or death. There is only good, only right, only life. Yet it is not the kind of good...

PL 144 The Process and Significance of Growing from 2014-05-07T21:35:27

We were discussing the unitive and the dualistic principles. Human consciousness, perception, and experience are generally geared to the dualistic principle. This means that everything is perceived...

PL 145 Responding to the Call of Life from 2014-05-07T21:34:25

Life issues a call; it makes a demand on every living individual. Most people do not sense this call. Only as you become aware of your own illusions can you simultaneously become more aware of the ...

PL 146 The Positive Concept of Life—Fearlessness to Love—the Balance Between Activity and Passivity from 2014-05-07T21:33:26

In the last lecture I discussed the necessity of transforming faults of character. The first step toward this transformation is always awareness of the faults. This is not easy, but not difficult e...

PL 147 The Nature of Life and Human Nature from 2014-05-07T21:28:49

. . . life will manifest exactly as you believe and conceive of it — not one iota differently. If your life experience and your conscious concepts are at variance, this is proof that your unconscio...

PL 148 Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current from 2014-05-07T21:27:39

It is not easy to reach an awareness where you can see yourself think, feel, and act destructively; where you are furthermore aware that this causes you misery, and yet are unable and unwilling to ...

PL 149 Cosmic Pull Toward Union—Frustration from 2014-05-07T20:12:41

The life force therefore consists not only of the pull toward others, but also of pleasure supreme. Life and pleasure are one. Lack of pleasure is the distortion of the life force and comes from op...

PL 150 Self-Liking: The Condition for Universal State of Bliss from 2014-05-06T16:46:39

The universe is so constituted that each individual creature is capable of being in a constant state of bliss. Bliss is not just a theoretical possibility: it is humanity’s natural state of being. ...

PL 151 Intensity: An Obstacle to Self-Realization from 2014-05-06T16:44:32

[Therefore,] one of the hindrances to making the universal power available is the inability to seriously and openly question and make oneself available to a new truth — no matter how revolutionary ...

PL 152 Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power from 2014-05-06T16:41:27

Every individual consciousness is universal consciousness — not just a part of it, for a part implies only a little — but wherever consciousness exists, it is the original consciousness. This origi...

PL 153 The Self-Regulating Nature of Involuntary Processes from 2014-05-06T16:38:07

To summarize once again, and perhaps with a different approach, the meaning of self-realization: self-realization means to bring out into reality all dormant potentials. It means to integrate the e...

PL 154 Pulsation of Consciousness from 2014-05-06T16:36:09

Let me briefly enumerate certain basic aspects about pulsation. Everything that lives must pulsate, as it must breathe and move. Therefore pulsation and breathing are interrelated. The movement of ...

PL 155 Fear of Self—Giving and Receiving from 2014-05-06T16:34:37

In order to become what you truly are, the fundamental prerequisite is fearlessness. Overcoming fear of self is the key. Every kind of fear amounts, in the last analysis, to fear of self; for if th...

PL 156 Questions and Answers from 2014-05-06T16:32:46

On your path, you begin to come face to face with your images. That is, you begin to feel how you emotionally react according to them, you experience their reality, you connect with them, as oppose...

PL 157 Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency from 2014-05-06T16:30:50

When one speaks about God’s infinity or about Creation’s infinity, this is part of the meaning. There is no state of being, no experience, no situation, no concept, no feeling, no object that does ...

PL 158 The Ego’s Cooperation With or Obstruction of the Real Self from 2014-05-06T16:29:01

The moment you transcend dualism, two opposite and apparently mutually exclusive aspects become equally true. This applies to the ego in relation to the real self. It is true when one says the ego’...

PL 159 Life Manifestations Reflects Dualistic Illusion from 2014-05-06T16:25:38

One of the great difficulties in life is the inevitable downward curve in all growth process. Life is growth, and growth is a continuum of movement that goes in a fluctuating line. Each down brings...

PL 160 Conciliation of the Inner Split from 2014-05-05T21:27:42

A very deliberate, yet relaxed attempt must be made to feel the underlying causes of the outer results in your life. All sorrow and unhappiness, all emptiness and unfulfillment, all frustration and...

PL 161 Unconscious Negativity Endangers Surrender of Ego to Involuntary Processes from 2014-05-05T21:26:27

There are various states and processes in material life which afford humans the possibility of replenishing themselves from the universal source. One of the most automatic, generally accessible of ...

PL 162 Three Levels of Reality for Inner Guidance from 2014-05-05T21:22:55

A person cut off from inner reality is indeed lost. The majority of humans are almost totally cut off from their inner reality and must therefore find their way back to it. The few who have attaine...

PL 163 Mind Activity and Mind Receptivity from 2014-05-05T21:21:18

There are two powerful forces or attitudes in the universe and therefore in each human personality. One is the force that is striving, moving, acting, initiating, activating, doing. This aspect inc...

PL 164 Further Aspects of Polarity—Selfishness from 2014-05-05T21:19:47

It is, of course, quite true that if people were entirely in harmony with the universal forces, they would not be sick, neurotic, unhappy. But it is equally true that sickness, discontent and disha...

PL 165 Evolutionary Phases in the Relationship Between the Realms of Feelings, Reason, and Will from 2014-05-05T21:16:05

The function of this path is not to remove a bothersome symptom in a person’s life. This is not a treatment of sickness. Nor is the path simply a way of becoming a better person, of developing spir...

PL 166 Perceiving, Reacting, Expressing from 2014-05-05T21:12:31

The experience of who you are now cannot be avoided. Only by learning to do this can you come to your life center. By the very act of self-acceptance, the unwelcome emotions and attitudes gradually...

PL 167 Frozen Life Center Becomes Alive from 2014-05-05T20:55:29

The experience of who you are now cannot be avoided. Only by learning to do this can you come to your life center. By the very act of self-acceptance, the unwelcome emotions and attitudes gradually...

PL 168 Two Basic Ways of Life: Toward and Away From the Center from 2014-05-05T20:41:42

In the very center of the human personality exists a potent, white-glowing mass of energy. It is a constant fire that continually bubbles and explodes within itself. Each tiny explosion multiplies ...

PL 169 The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process from 2014-05-05T20:39:52

What a tremendous difference it makes when you deliberately express and create your life or your fate, rather than creating it unknowingly. Unconsciously creating, you go through certain experience...

PL 170 Fear of Bliss Versus Longing for It—The Energy Centers from 2014-05-05T20:37:58

Every human being has this apparently nonsensical fear to some degree. Even though it makes no sense, it nevertheless exists. Coexisting with your fear is an inherent longing for your true birthrig...

PL 171 Spiritual Laws from 2014-05-05T20:33:16

In the course of giving these lectures, the Guide has often referred to spiritual laws. In February 1969, Eva decided to compile some of the basic laws to give us further understanding of these ver...

PL 172 The Life Energy Centers from 2014-05-05T20:30:54

What determines the proper function of the life force in the human being, and hence of the energy centers, can be understood only if we gain a view of the entire structure of the human personality....

PL 173 Basic Attitudes and Practices to Open the Centers—The Right Attitude Toward Frustration from 2014-05-05T20:28:26

The opening of the centers creates a full capacity for living and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity and lack of feelings. How closed the centers are determines ...

PL 174 Self-Esteem from 2014-05-05T20:25:24

Self-esteem, self-liking, or self-value—whatever you call it—is sorely lacking in every human being who experiences feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, in...

PL 175 Consciousness: Fascination with Creation from 2014-05-05T20:24:05

Creation is indeed a result of consciousness and not, as generally assumed, the other way around. Nothing can be unless it first exists in consciousness, whether the consciousness is the universal ...

PL 176 Overcoming Negativity from 2014-05-05T20:20:05

Since you are human, my friends, every one of you creates negatively. Your deliberate negative attitudes and feelings, which you do not want to give up, are a creation. To believe that your unhappi...

PL 177 Pleasure—The Full Pulsation of Life from 2014-05-05T20:18:48

In truth, there is essentially no difference between the ultimate spiritual state of bliss and the human potential for it. Only the degree of intensity varies, for no human being is capable of the ...

PL 178 The Universal Principle of Growth Dynamics from 2014-05-05T20:16:40

Tonight’s lecture is a sequel to all the lectures I gave this year and can be fully understood only in that context. It will deal with the topic of dynamic growth, the spontaneous unification inher...

PL 179 Chain Reactions in the Dynamics of Creative Life Substance from 2014-05-05T20:11:59

In this lecture I would like to discuss a very specific chain reaction—both in its natural, unhampered, and therefore positive manifestation, and in its distortion. In its positive, natural version...

PL 180 The Spiritual Significance of Human Relationship from 2014-04-30T19:49:26

I should like to say that relationship represents the greatest challenge for the individual, for it is only in relationship to others that unresolved problems still existing within the individual p...

PL 181 The Meaning of the Human Struggle from 2014-04-30T19:48:11

You invariably mistake the manifestation for the root cause. You must learn laboriously, through your personal growth, to discriminate between cause and effect, reality and manifestation. This deep...

PL 182 The Process of Meditation (Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self, Higher Self) from 2014-04-30T19:46:49

To really understand the dynamics, the meaning, and the process of meditation and derive the maximum benefit from it, you must be clear about certain psychic laws I have discussed elsewhere. One is...

PL 183 The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis from 2014-04-30T19:44:32

Crisis in any form attempts to break down old structures based on false conclusions and therefore on negativity. Crisis shakes loose ingrained, frozen habits so that new growth becomes possible. It...

PL 184 The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence from 2014-04-30T19:43:13

In this dualistic approach you become split within yourself, for you reject a whole part of yourself that is the source of essential, potent creative energy without which you can never be a full hu...

PL 185 Mutuality: A Cosmic Principle and Law from 2014-04-30T19:26:50

Nothing can be created unless mutuality exists, be it a new galaxy, a work of art, or a good relationship between human beings. This applies even to the creation of the simplest object. To illustra...

PL 186 Venture in Mutuality: Healing Force to Change Negative Inner Will from 2014-04-30T19:25:37

At the beginning of one’s path, one is aware only of what one consciously desires, wishes, wants, wills, intends, longs for. The person is convinced that their lack of fulfillment is a result of il...

PL 187 (The Way to Handle) Alternation of Expansive and Contracting States from 2014-04-30T19:23:13

Expansion takes place when a positive, open, committed, honest, loving, giving attitude exists. When the good feelings and thoughts create a corresponding attitude in life, they influence actions, ...

PL 188 Affecting and Being Affected from 2014-04-30T19:19:22

All human beings suffer from a basic conflict and pain; whether individuals are aware of it or not, it always exists. Again, the more aware of it you are, the better you can face and deal with it a...

PL 189 Self-Identification Determined Through Stages of Consciousness from 2014-04-30T19:18:01

As evolution progresses, this static condition decreases as consciousness and energy become increasingly more vibrant and mobile. Consciousness gains in awareness; energy gains greater creative pow...

PL 190 Importance of Experiencing All Feelings, Including Fear—The Dynamic State of Laziness from 2014-04-29T20:24:45

The capacity to own up to being fallible, human, vulnerable, irrational, wrong, needy, defenseless, weak and unhappy must by necessity increase your capacity to be strong, truly right and not self-...

PL 191 Inner and Outer Experience from 2014-04-29T20:23:40

Usually, when humans hear the word “experience,” they think of outer experience. This, however, is not the meaning of the word. The real meaning is the inner experience. You know that you may exper...

PL 192 Real and False Needs from 2014-04-29T20:22:30

In the course of this journey toward experiencing old feelings which had not been fully experienced before, you also came across the needs you had as a child whose unfulfillment caused most of your...

PL 193 Resume of the Basic Principles of the Pathwork: Its Aim and Process from 2014-04-29T20:21:18

Humanity consists of different levels of consciousness. Each level of consciousness represents a conglomerate of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. These levels of consciousness are often at total v...

PL 194 Meditation: Its Laws and Various Approaches—A Summary (Meditation as Positive Life Creation) from 2014-04-29T20:19:59

Meditation is conscious and deliberate creating. It is one of the most dynamic and creative acts imaginable. You constantly create, whether you know it or not. You create by what you are, by what t...

PL 195 Identification and Intentionality: Identification with the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative Intentionality from 2014-04-29T20:18:42

As you become more perceptive and attuned as a result of your accelerating development, you know that the reality of spirit is much greater than that of the things you touch and see. The spiritual ...

PL 196 Commitment: Cause and Effect from 2014-04-29T20:17:26

You can never measure yourself against others. Where you are now may be just right for you. It may be exactly where you have to be. When you know this, you will feel bright and hopeful. Others who ...

PL 197 Energy and Consciousness in Distortion: Evil from 2014-04-29T20:15:51

The various concepts of what evil is and where it comes from are all true, provided they do not exclude the apparently opposite approach. If you say that evil does not exist at all, on any level of...

PL 198 Transition to Positive Intentionality from 2014-04-29T20:14:25

The first step is to realize that your negative intentionality is really not unconscious in the strict sense of the word. It is not at all deeply repressed material. It is really a conscious attitu...

PL 199 The Meaning of the Ego and Its Transcendence from 2014-04-29T20:12:52

Ego means fragmentation. As I mentioned, it is the task of all beings who are caught in this fragmentation, and that means anyone in the cycle of being born and dying, to enlarge their field of ope...

PL 200 The Cosmic Feeling from 2014-04-29T20:11:33

I wish to discuss a very specific feeling, a feeling that is rarely recognized because it transcends the usual human being’s experience of feelings. Within the spectrum of human emotion there is no...

PL 201 Demagnetizing Negative Force Fields—Pain of Guilt from 2014-04-29T20:10:16

The force field of a specific attitude to life is also ruled by laws of attraction—like attracting like. Thus you who have created various force fields as a result of your attitudes, ideas, concept...

PL 202 Psychic Interaction of Negativity from 2014-04-29T20:08:59

When you are only vaguely aware of your negativity, only dimly sensing the hurt that it inflicts on others, you are caught in a battle of blame, self-justification, helplessness, self-rejection and...

PL 203 Interpenetration of the Divine Light Spark into the Outer Regions—Mind Exercises from 2014-04-29T20:07:37

Creation “started”—and of course it never really started, so when I say “started,” I am again squeezing a concept into human language, a concept for which there is no other word. Try to feel this t...

PL 204 What Is the Path? from 2014-04-29T20:04:49

It is essential to deal with confusions, inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy a...

PL 205 Order as a Universal Principle from 2014-04-29T19:49:49

Orderliness is a by-product of divine harmony. In this lecture I will discuss what constitutes inner order or disorder, as well as outer order or disorder, and their meaning, connection, and relati...

PL 206 Desire: Creative or Destructive from 2014-04-29T19:22:53

Every attitude, every expression, every feeling creates an energy movement in your system—a specific soul movement. I spoke of this a long time ago and I will now do so more specifically. We will d...

PL 207 The Spiritual Symbolism and Significance of Sexuality from 2014-04-29T19:21:20

The sexual force is an expression of consciousness reaching for fusion. You all know that fusion, which you can also call integration, unification, or oneness is the purpose of Creation. Whatever t...

PL 208 The Innate Human Capacity to Create from 2014-04-29T19:20:08

As I have often said, the sum total of all your conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious, explicit and implicit thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, intentions, feelings, emotions and will directions—conf...

PL 209 The Roscoe Lecture: Inspiration for the Pathwork Center from 2014-04-29T19:19:02

Human evolution travels a curve of development from acting out negativity to the next step, which is holding it back. This leads to repression. The step after repressing is making it conscious but ...

PL 210 Visualization Process for Growing into the Unitive State from 2014-04-29T19:16:52

The freer the soul and the less encumbered by distortions, misconceptions, negativity, and destructive impulses, the more reliable become its choices. This applies both to the conscious and unconsc...

PL 211 Outer Events Reflect Self-Creation—Three Stages from 2014-04-29T19:13:31

The human mind is squeezed into a narrow box, as it were—a box of misperceptions and limited perception. Only as you know yourself do you gradually gain a proper perspective and perception of life ...

PL 212 Claiming the Total Capacity for Greatness from 2014-04-29T19:12:25

How rich and full is your life? How much are joy, peace, and abundance increasingly open to you? How much less are you afraid and reluctant to meet and expose the deepest regions of your innermost ...

PL 213 The Spiritual and the Practical Meaning of “Let Go, Let God” from 2014-04-29T19:11:15

Letting go obviously means letting go of the limited ego with its selfwill, its narrow understanding and its preconceptions. It means letting go of fears, distrust, misconceptions, and suspicion. B...

PL 214 Psychic Nuclear Points from 2014-04-29T19:09:42

Creation requires the meeting of two essential principles that you, in human terminology may best be called the masculine and feminine principles. They permeate all of creation. They are the active...

PL 215 Psychic Nuclear Points Continued—Process in the Now from 2014-04-25T16:42:28

Every smallest particle of creation consists of endless series of psychic nuclear spiral configurations that are intense energy movements, winding up in a climactic point which brings the particula...

PL 216 Connection Between the Incarnatory Process and the Life Task from 2014-04-25T16:39:12

The task of every fragmented, apparently disconnected aspect of consciousness is to realize its true identity and connection with the real self. This happens through an often laborious groping sear...

PL 217 The Phenomenon of Consciousness from 2014-04-25T16:32:59

Consciousness permeates all being, all creation, all existence—everything that is. In your dualistic realm, you speak of consciousness and energy as if they were two separate phenomena. This is inc...

PL 218 The Evolutionary Process from 2014-04-25T16:28:59

The topic of tonight’s lecture is the process of the evolutionary journey, for it is a journey. You begin to notice this process increasingly as you grow, through your efforts on your path, as an o...

PL 219 Christmas Message—Message to the Children from 2014-04-25T16:27:02

Here, on this path, you are learning to eliminate the obstructions and the obstacles. At this particular time, when the birth of the Christ consciousness is celebrated, we shall talk about the even...

PL 220 Reawakening from Pre-Incarnatory Anesthesia from 2014-04-25T16:22:44

In this lecture, I will again speak about the phenomenon of consciousness, particularly in connection with the evolutionary process and the meaning of individual life. All knowledge is in you. I ha...

PL 221 Faith and Doubt in Truth or Distortion from 2014-04-25T16:09:19

When you go deep enough and look astutely enough, you also find out that what really obstructs you is the sum total of everything that is negative and destructive in you. The mind does not want to ...

PL 222 Transformation of the Lower Self from 2014-04-25T16:06:45

You may imagine what this means in terms of ever increasing joy, love, peace, security, strength, creativity, deep friendships and unity. Even these first steps of transforming work have already ch...

PL 223 The Era of the New Age and New Consciousness from 2014-04-25T16:03:46

The planet Earth is an entity of which each individual inhabiting it is a cell, not unlike the cells of your body. Each of these cells is a consciousness and energy center, just as you are a consci...

PL 224 Creative Emptiness from 2014-04-25T16:00:43

Most human beings create an agitated mind, an inner and outer overactivity, because they are frightened that they may be empty, that there may be nothing within to sustain them. This thought is rar...

PL 225 Evolutionary Stages of Individual and Group Consciousness from 2014-04-24T18:57:32

In each phase a higher level of development is reached, so that what was gained through the emphasis on, say individuality, can then further the group consciousness, and what is learned in group re...

PL 226 Approach to Self—Self-Forgiveness Without Condoning the Lower Self from 2014-04-24T18:55:09

One of your most basic fears is the fear of death. The fear of death has its origin in the confusion of dualistic thinking and perceiving. The fear itself leads to further confusion. The fear of de...

PL 227 Change From Outer to Inner Laws in the New Age from 2014-04-24T18:52:10

In this lecture I wish to give you another vision of the growth process in which you as individuals, and the planet as a whole, are involved. Every seed contains the plan of its ultimate self-evolu...

PL 228 Balance from 2014-04-24T18:15:02

This lecture is about balance. Balance is what keeps the universe intact. If there were no balance, no balancing consciousness, no balancing law, everything would disintegrate.

PL 229 Woman and Man in the New Age from 2014-04-24T18:12:16

As the planet is maturing, so are men and women. What does this really mean? How have woman and man evolved and where are they going? What is the ultimate realization of womanhood—and of manhood? W...

PL 230 The Universality of Change—Reincarnative Process in the Same Life Span from 2014-04-24T18:10:47

What is the seed plan? It is truly allowing Divine Substance to infiltrate all that is. And that substance is never static. It contains limitless possibilities for being, expression and creative ma...

PL 231 New Age Education from 2014-04-24T17:59:51

As a fundamental prerequisite, education in the coming age has to make room for the understanding of the principles you are learning on this path, and also of the levels of human consciousness and ...

PL 232 Being Values Versus Appearance Values—Self-Identification from 2014-04-24T17:58:45

The key to happiness and abundance is changing over to a new level of operation on which the old attitude of taking, wanting, demanding and not giving is transformed into an attitude of love, givin...

PL 233 The Power of the Word from 2014-04-24T17:56:54

What is the word? The word is the creative agent. The word is a psychic nuclear point that creates movement and a systematic chain reaction, one link logically and inexorably following another, unt...

PL 234 Perfection, Immortality, Omnipotence from 2014-04-24T17:55:37

The three aspects I want to discuss this evening are perfection, immortality, and omnipotence. Let us see how these three states of reality compare when you experience them in the higher-self consc...

PL 235 The Anatomy of Contraction from 2014-04-23T19:08:42

The path is a spiral movement. You know this. You have heard this and experienced it. Each round of the spiral is a new layer, and at the entrance of each round a new and deeper commitment needs to...

PL 236 The Superstition of Pessimism from 2014-04-23T19:05:57

Anyone developed enough to be capable of pursuing such a demanding path as this is also capable of immense fulfillment and joy—and of leadership! In this path we are creating new leaders in many fi...

PL 237 Leadership—The Art of Transcending Frustration from 2014-04-23T19:03:57

Anyone developed enough to be capable of pursuing such a demanding path as this is also capable of immense fulfillment and joy—and of leadership! In this path we are creating new leaders in many fi...

PL 238 The Pulse of Life on all Levels of Manifestation from 2014-04-22T16:09:47

The outer mind is sluggish at times and does not immediately comprehend and follow through. But the greater meaning can indeed become a reality if you use all your feelers, your inner sensitivity, ...

PL 239 Christmas Lecture 1975 from 2014-04-22T16:06:58

The Christ has been given birth by your work, my beloved friends. At each step of your path where you find a misconception, a negativity, a block, a destructiveness, a problem, an ignorance, you fi...

PL 240 Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom from 2014-04-22T16:05:22

We shall talk about certain aspects of love in this lecture. To completely cover the topic would be absolutely impossible in one lifetime, even if it were discussed every hour of the day, so deep a...

PL 241 Dynamics of Movement and Resistance to Its Nature from 2014-04-22T15:56:56

A human being who is in a state of movement may not always move outwardly. But even at periods of outer rest and quietude, the movement is being felt in the joyousness, aliveness, ability to change...

PL 242 The Spiritual Meaning of Political Systems from 2014-04-22T15:53:20

For this lecture I have announced a somewhat unusual topic, but you will see that it fits into the sequence of lectures and has its integral meaning in your own process, both as individuals and as ...

PL 243 The Great Existential Fear and Longing from 2014-04-22T15:51:06

The path I have the privilege to bring to you and help you on prepares you for this process. Little by little you deal first with the personal, individual violations of integrity and truth, level b...

PL 244“Be in the World but not of the World”—The Evil of Inertia from 2014-04-22T15:38:40

What is the deepest meaning of the spirit of self-preservation? If the deep mind knows that there is eternal life, why does it hold on to life and instinctively fights leaving the body? This seems ...

PL 245 Cause and Effect on Various Levels of Consciousness from 2014-04-22T15:34:43

If you commit an overt act—you kill someone—the consequences will be obvious. But if you malign another human being by questionable accusations, ill will, blindness or stubbornness; if you refuse t...

PL 246 Tradition: It’s Divine and Distorted Aspects from 2014-04-22T15:31:19

The topic of this lecture is the meaning of tradition. Let us first examine what tradition means in its best sense, and then what it means when it is distorted. Many human beings have distinct imag...

PL 247 The Mass Images of Judiasm and Christianity from 2014-04-22T15:26:26

This lecture grew out of an answer to the following question. Question: I am very puzzled by the tremendously strong reactions about the whole issue of Jesus Christ. I understand what you said abou...

PL 248 Three Principles of the Forces of Evil—Personification of Evil from 2014-04-21T23:20:14

In this lecture I wish to instruct you again about certain realities and laws concerning evil. It is very important that you understand more about this so controversial subject at this present mome...

PL 249 The Pain of Injustice—Cosmic Records of All Personal and Collective Events, Deeds, Expressions from 2014-04-21T23:18:27

The specific pain I wish to discuss, that is so important to be seen in a new light at this state of your development, is the pain of injustice. This type of pain contains more than can be expresse...

PL 250 Inner Awareness of Grace—Exposing the Deficit from 2014-04-21T23:16:42

In the present general state of humanity, self-responsibility is much more developed. You understand that you create your reality and your experiences—good or bad. How then does grace come in? Is i...

PL 251 The Evolution and Spiritual Meaning of Marriage—New Age Marriage from 2014-04-21T23:13:59

During the many centuries of its existence, humanity has developed in many areas. Let us consider marriage. Under standing its evolution thus far will open your vision to the future. You will view ...

PL 252 Privacy and Secrecy from 2014-04-21T23:05:47

Today I wish to explore the concepts of privacy and secrecy. Much confusion exists about these two concepts. This confusion fosters the forces of evil and prevents you from fulfilling all your need...

PL 253 Continue Your Struggle and Cease All Struggle from 2014-04-21T23:02:28

I would like to discuss a particular aspect of this transformation of consciousness, giving special emphasis to what was previously discussed only in general. Humanity’s greatest imprisonment, from...

PL 254 Surrender from 2014-04-21T22:58:38

You often use the word “surrender.” You sense that this word contains an important aspect of spiritual fulfillment. Yet there is also a great deal of confusion attached to this word which needs to ...

PL 255 The Birthing Process—Cosmic Pulse from 2014-04-21T22:51:12

In this lecture I would like to discuss particularly a law of timing that applies to the development of every entity. You surely must have sensed this law and may even know about it vaguely. But it...

PL 256—Inner Space, Focused Emptiness from 2014-04-21T22:43:18

We have occasionally discussed this inner landscape. I have made mention of the inner space that is the real world. The term “inner space” is used quite frequently in your world these days, as oppo...

PL 257 Aspects of the New Divine Influx: Communication, Group Consciousness, Exposure from 2014-04-21T22:41:03

In this lecture I would like to speak about some significant aspects of the New Age. This term has been used a lot recently by certain groups of people. Some use it with correct understanding, some...

PL 258—Personal Contact With Jesus Christ—Positive Aggression—The Real Meaning of Salvation from 2014-04-21T22:36:55

If you seriously long, pray, and search for a realization of Jesus Christ’s personal love for you, the answers will come forth. Perhaps you will not recognize the first answers as such. They may ha...