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Self-Analysis August 1, 1945 Yellow Pine, Idaho We may use two approaches to a self-analysis, but combining both is best. This entire process will probably take two years. The Categories of Life include your (1) family life, (2) social and business life, (3) love life, and (4) religious life. Always be honest in your own personal analysis. Using the academic method, begin with today and write the factual story of your life backward, day by day, until you reach your earliest memories. Write everything you can recall within an hour. List events as nearly as possible in chronological order. If, in the middle of writing, you remember something someone said that affected you, write it on a separate sheet, date it and put it aside. Do not show your story to another, reread it to impress yourself with the greatness of your self-tragedies, or to foster the negative events. Write your reactions to these experiences. When you are finished, take stock. Examine what you have written and tally it, as if taking inventory of your reactions. For example, from the single root of hatred may grow revenge, anger, jealousy, envy and deceit.
A revenge motive grows branches of self-pity, rebellion, resentment, frustration and pride.
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anger grow irritation, impatience and retaliation.
Jealousy breeds grief, hurts and sorrows.
Envy produces escape complexes, the mildest of which is avoiding responsibility, greed, gossip, which is adultery and a cover-up of your own limitations.
Deceit breeds lies, treachery and subterfuge, or chicanery.
A concrete example of an escape complex would be choosing illness to escape life, which grows from a root of self-pity, branching into lack of courage, and fear of life. Left uncovered, an escape complex can become an obsession. While reviewing your inventory sheet, you may find your reaction falls into one of the following categories. Be aware that what you may think are facts may really be one of the following: Impressions, prenatal and postnatal, are the results of influences passively received on the senses or mind. We can have an impression of what we think the other fellow means by his tone of voice, facial expression, posture, and so forth. Repression is caused by controlling emotional reactions and then burying them from the conscious mind. This applies to relationships, especially where we bury resentment and hatred. Suppression is the forceful control or keeping secret one's personal appetites and desires, caused by doubt or fear of being laughed at or of being punished. Complexes are born of self-pity arising from envy, jealousy or the desire to possess. A complex piles fear upon fear until fear becomes the individual's response to life. Illusions are usually misperceptions involving the spoken word. More subtle is the illusion born of being unable to discern a particular phase of truth at all. Delusions are self-deceptions. The greatest delusions are of grandeur and greatness where you deceive yourself into believing everything you hear, whether flattery or criticism. Hallucinations, generally regarded as seeing or hearing what is not there, are born of fact, then exaggerated out of proportion by fear, hatred, a revenge motive, etc. Obsession holds all negative emotions, where nothing else enters. It is the final stage of no mind. Obsessions include manias and phobias. We project all illness from the subconscious mind. We must cleanse it because old memories, impressions, urges, etc., from these eight stages do project themselves into the conscious mind, and if ignored will eventually burn out the body. When you are finished, take stock. Look down the list of what you’ve written of your life looking backward. Check and cross off detriments, as though you were taking inventory. Cross off pride (for example) on each writing and total the number of times it appears in your pages: fear = 490, self-pity = 98726. Sometimes, this is enough. Occasionally, you may have to write the factual story from birth to today. You should have twice as many memories and reactions using this approach. Then total them coming forward. You should have twice as many memories and reactions using this approach, because you are opening the cesspool. Check the two sets of pages together and all totals. Put them in order of magnitude, from greater to lesser number. Look at the totals and then decide to see – it tells you what your reactions have been and what your detriments are. This reveals the roots of your detriments and complexes. Burn the stories as you go.
Another method is diagnosing by climactic experiences, those that hurt. Write the experiences as you think of them (chronological order is not important), for the first memories to come up you must cleanse first. Write exactly what happened. The first conscious memory is just a beginning in a self-analysis. If you are really honest, you will dig out the cause. Write one episode fully before starting the next. You may have to rewrite it several times. Put "I blamed. I hated. I feared." Don’t leave this until it is finished. Then list your reactions, whatever you did, no matter what, or wanted to do at the time, (kill somebody, etc.). Put down what it was – hate, fear, pride – with most prevalent response at the top. Identify which reactions were inappropriate, and using another page, write what the right thing to do would have been. As you write one episode, you may think of other episodes of like nature. Instantly list them on a separate sheet until you have time to write about them fully. Include names of people and places implicated, and date the episodes. Check at the end to see which reaction (pride, rebellion, etc.) was most prevalent. Compare your totals with the totals from the academic method. Stop and analyze the results. On reviewing the episodes, you will find out whatever has dogged your footsteps. When you find recurrences of names, list them in order, those who bedeviled you the most on one side, and those who were your greatest help. Then list your residences and what happened there, especially in school, at home or your neighborhood. If you find a recurrence of times you hated, blamed, resented, felt pride, etc., decide what to consider, which places or residences had the most impact. Analyze closely whether it is a condition or person that you dislike. If it a person, rid yourself of all the things you have held against this person. If it is a condition you dislike, analyze what in you attracts it. For example, someone says a phrase, and you just want to crown them. Analyze and recall where you heard it first. Analyze for a phrase, a tone of voice or a condition. If you cannot find its source, return to the cradle and prenatal experiences. Write all the stories family has told you about your parents and what they’ve said. After you have burned it, if it comes up again and you react with resentment, fears, etc., write it out again.
January 16, 1933 Tacoma, Washington To cast out a complex, bring your greatest fear, emotional hurt, etc., to the surface. A conscious method of doing this is to: Write your worst limitation on paper, and number it. Then write your next worst liability, and the next, using a separate sheet for each. Keep the sheets in numerical order. Go back to the first sheet, write everything you can think of concerning that weakness, and go to the next. Take at least three weeks to do this, scheduling your sessions about three days apart. Review what you have written. You will find you have about five nouns that are alike. Write them at the bottom of each sheet. Put those five nouns on new sheets and keep on digging. In this way you can lift all impatience and irritability, for instance. Do this frequently until you have eradicated the complex. The second technique is called the subconscious method: Sit, relax and wait. Put on paper the first idea that comes to mind, take another sheet and keep going. Go back to the first idea, and write everything it makes you think of. Review what you have written. If for instance, resentment appears on each sheet, take another sheet and write out every experience you have ever had in your life that has caused you resentment. When you see how unimportant all those experiences are now, you’ll be free from them.
June 30, 1944 Buffalo, New York Face every episode, condition and past situation in family, social and business life, no matter what. Lift it, loose it and let it go to see it filled with Light. Especially include all who have blamed you as the cause of their grief, resentment, intolerance and criticism. You must cleanse and purify yourself for the peak experience. Enter your Room of Light and remain there to lift all emotions. Emotions belong up in the head centers, not in the heart or solar plexus. Ascend, be compassionate, but do not take the outer situation into yourself. Ascended emotions are all self dwelling in the Higher Creative Center. Put it all in a Room of Light and leave it there. Never let it descend and draw you into a mud puddle. Keep it high until Light dissolves it. Face it, lift it, and thank the Father for bringing you so far. Certainly you have done everything to hinder Him. Most maladies are imagination, so treat them as such. They are the "memory" of, not the real thing. They do not exist. Take no heed of them. Remember that you don’t have to go back over pages that are already clean. The Father has cleansed your past in the moment you asked Him. Don’t look for mud where there isn’t any. Each day is a clean page. Pay all your debts as you go. Accept the precious experience of each small episode that has given you credits stored in Heavenly Realms, rewards and advance in Initiations. Be certain that you have carried each pearl of experience forward with you, and have not discarded any in your haste to forget all past hurt, sorrow, grief, burdens or darkness before you have forgiven all your "debtors." Pick up each tear and string it as a pearl, and the White Point of God’s Love will dry the emotional waters of earth from each and turn it into the Pearl of Spirit. Keep the subconscious posted on everything that takes place around you. I have never had time just to work this out quietly and alone. I have had to work it out right along with everything I must do, therefore, I have "seen" by observation along the way. We have powers of induction, deduction and analysis to use. Do not concentrate on the subconscious. It will induct from the outer, and your job is to analyze as you go. Charge it to do so, then go about your business of being fully aware and mentally conscious. In other words, know what you are doing. Concentrate so that what you do receives your full attention while you are doing it. Leave the superconscious, or Oversoul, free to dwell and create above. Charge yourself to be alive and alert on all three levels while you look up occasionally to the Oversoul and observe what is transpiring. Keep track of all three levels as you go. You recall from the subconscious since it retains all experiences, conditions and situations. Each memory cell should be alive. Keep going to your High Place, your Room of Light, to recharge your batteries. Keep your whole house in order and leave out nothing.
July 25, 1945 We employ the steps of induction, comparison, deduction, analysis and synthesis. We constantly induct from the outer through the solar plexus, and it becomes an emotional experience. We compare the present with past experiences. Then we apply the sifting process of deduction. Under analysis, we bring reason and logic to bear as rationalization. Synthesis is our final weaving together of all into a formula or conclusion. An opinionated attitude precludes these five points of formulating a synthesis.
November 13, 1958 Cleveland, Ohio You must to lift as much from the past as possible, but don’t ask for causes. Don’t ask why. Why is considered an unconscious rebellion, resentment, desire to escape responsibility or the lack of responsibility for your own creations. Why always expresses a hope that it is someone else’s fault. Self-blame can be involved and it takes you down the pole. Rationalization is based on emotion. Analysis is based on Logic, Reason, Discrimination, Discretion and Discernment. Pin your problem on the wall above you and ask Light to move through it. It will fill the problem with Light and "you" are not involved. Use your faculties of Logic, Reason, Discrimination, Discretion and Discernment. Light fills you and the problem, which makes the problem impersonal. You are like another person analyzing the problem. Your five senses induct from the outside, but you lift these senses under the process of Ascension. As we clean out self, the five senses become finer, become Intuition, Illumination, Comprehension and Apperception. If something from the outside hits you in the solar plexus, your five senses have inducted "news" from the world mind. This can happen when you are not ascended in consciousness. If you want protection, it your responsibility to keep the flood gates open from above. You must earn this. Power moves down and through you to go before you as Light. It is impossible to have two streams in a river flowing in opposite directions. So, when Power moves down through the Door of Soul (the crown), it cannot move in through the solar plexus. The medulla oblongata is the seat of memories of past lives. The solar plexus is the seat of unconscious memories of your present life. Hypnosis relieves the egoic soul of present conscious karmic debts but it gives no information about how to pay past karmic debts. In raising the Creative Fire, by Desire mated to Will, the first nerves awakened are in the sacrum plexus. The five senses begin to be drawn upward. Just before the nerves come together and cross in the head [at the decussation of the pyramidal tracts in the medulla], you hit a grey spot and no longer enjoy life. Pay no attention, because then the Creative Fire moves into the head, up to the midbrain, waters it. Light falls upon the brain cells and you have a sunburst of Apperception. Selfishness is a sedative to the soul and any vibration that disturb self is hated. "And this too shall pass away under love." |
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