Tapes of Dr. Thomas Hora

 ~ Tapes of Classes with Dr. Thomas Hora ~

(Note that summaries of some tape contents appear below)

Since these tapes were not originally recorded for commercial purposes, their quality is not studio standard; however, they have been professionally re-mastered to improve their overall quality. Most, but not all, run for a full hour. Tapes are $10.00 each, except for those marked with an asterisk(*), which are $5.00 because they are either less than 1 hour in length, or because they are of lesser audio quality, although Dr. Hora's voice can always be clearly heard. Postage for 1-4 tapes is $5. Please add $.50 for each additional tape. Tape Order Form

No. .Title	No. .Title
38 - The Right Man	41 - Admiration
42 - Thinking & Health	43 - Beyond Psychosomatics #1
44 - Beyond Psychosomatics #2	45 - Symptom choice
46* - Fearlessness	47* - Self-Destruction
48 - Phenomenological Discernment	49 - The Love of Excitement
50 - Ambition & Aspiration	51 - The Basic Stuff of Life
52 - Attention	53 - Spiritual Guidance
54 - The Curtain of Time	55 - Evolution of Knowledge
56 - A Sense of Culpability	57* - The Physical is Mental
58 - Three "Rs" of Metapsychiatry	59 - Casting Pearls
60 - Spiritual Values in Therapy	61 - Self in Transformation
62* - Transforming Modes of Being	63 - Learning to See the Unseen I
64 - Learning to See the Unseen II	65* - Search for Fulfillment
66 - Sixty Minutes with Dr. Hora	67 - Family Ties
68 - Blame vs. Ignorance	69 - Wanting What God Wants
70 - Wholeness	71* - Prayer & Meditation
72 - Solitariness	73 - Work Issues
74 - Super-Conductivity	75 - The Land of PAGL
76 - Dualism	77 - Asking Questions
78 - The Beatitudes	79 - Healing of Attachments
80 - Being Here for God	81 - The Living Soul
83 - Interaction vs. Omniaction	84 - Forgiveness
85 - Compassion	86 - Existential Commitment
87* - Healing of Compulsions	88 - Seeking
89 - Adam's Rib	90 - Envy or Gratitude?
91 - Beauty	92a* - Issues of Suicide
92b* - Issues of Suicide	93b - Commitment
94 - Human Sexuality Issues	95b* - Safety & Security
96 - Open Questions	97 - Conflicting Values in Workplace
98 - Freedom from Anxiety	99 - Healing of Compulsions II
100b - Healing of Guilt	101 - Efficiency
102 - Holiday Joy	103 - Mid-Life: Crisis or Graduation?
104 - Mental Despotism	105 - Healing of Loss
106 - Illusion of Change	107* - Getting & Receiving
109 - Parents Group #2	110 - Another Face
111 - Prayer	112 - Imagination & Inspiration
113 - God is Not a Person	114 - Beyond the Dream
115 - What Can Be Done	116 - Responsibility in Marriage
117 - The Life of Jesus	118 - What Does it Mean to Study Metapsychiatry?
119 - Meltdown of Ignorance	120 - Being in the World
122 - "Prepare Ye The Way"	123 - Innocence
124 - Consciousness that Heals	125 - Principles as Healing Prayers
126 - Substance	127 - The Ocean / the Pollution

Since these tapes were not originally recorded for commercial purposes, their quality is not studio standard; however, they have been professionally re-mastered to improve their overall quality. Tapes marked with an * are either one-sided or of lesser audio quality, although Dr. Hora's voice can always be clearly heard.

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 ~ Brief Summary of Contents of Some Tapes Listed Above ~

 

• Tape # 38 The Right Man: Theistic existentialism vs. more fashionable philosophies – difference between metapsychiatry and psychiatry – understanding man in the context of God – the leaf in the context of the tree – pragmatism, humanism and social ethics – Chuang-tzu’s “The right man” and “the wrong man” – the do-gooder – Existential Metapsychiatry’s primary work – a valid definition of Man. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 38 min.44 sec.

• Tape # 41 Admiration: Meaning of symptoms of disease – fever and fear – recognition, regret, reformation – fear and disease – example of suicidal patient diagnosed with schizophrenia – the desire to be admired – self confirmation vs. healthy sense of self-worth – difference between standard psychiatric approach and metapsychiatry – children’s illness and mental climate of the home – ceaseless prayer as mental hygiene principle – fascination with symptoms – phenomenological perceptivity – the role of the therapist in healing – right motive in being a psychotherapist. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 48 min. 58 sec.

• Tape # 42 Thinking and Health: Feelings, behaviors and thought processes – importance of our perceptions (how we see) – learning to see reality (“what really is”) – the therapist’s work to help people see better – the Divine Mind and the receptive consciousness – valid and invalid thoughts – the “sea of mental garbage” and the “ocean of Love-Intelligence” – the firmament of the Book of Genesis – somatopsychic, psychosomatic medicine , phenomenological understanding of human experience – computer thinking vs. creative inspiration – determining the form thoughts take / transmuting of mental energy – the importance of what we cherish, hate or fear. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 45 min. 8 sec.

• Tape # 43 Beyond Psychosomatics #1: Psychosomatic and somatopsychic illness – resistance to acknowledge mental involvement – example of case of spinal arthritis, surgeon’s recommendation, and the healing of the condition with metapsychiatric therapy – emotions, the mind, the mind vs. mode of being-in-the-world – the focus of metapsychiatry vs. focus on lifestyle -- operationalism vs. existentialism – determining one’s cognition of reality – what is good? – being a model of spiritual excellence – importance of the quality of the therapist’s consciousness. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 52 min. 3 sec.

• Tape # 44 Beyond Psychosomatics #2: The mind and the body are one – metapsychiatry’s approach to psychosomatic medicine – modes of being-in-the-world vs. adjustment, adaptation and lifestyle – the method of phenomenological analysis – seeking meaning vs. cause and effect reasoning – mental equivalents – clarifying what seems to be – helping the patient to be liberated from somatic problems – the existentially valid mode of being-in-the-world – the true nature of reality – living in harmony with the fundamental order of existence – problems lessons designed for edification – when the meaning is obscure – when phenomenological analysis is not possible – turning to traditional methods of treatment – protection from suffering – alleviating the symptoms vs. learning the meaning – receptivity to disease vs. immunity. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 50 min. 8 sec.

• Tape # 45 Sympton Choice: 1st Case presentation: Depressed woman facing possible marriage split; children grown, husband pressuring her. Dialogue: Meaning of depression – blaming others -- attachments . 2nd Case presentation: Married woman with bronchial asthma and phobias, raising two teenagers, uses oxygen, smokes, criticized by uncommunicative husband. Dialogue: Meaning of symptoms – determining symptom choice – thoughts as mental energy – transmutation of energy – the meaning of phobias – the therapist’s job – assuming responsibility – a better understanding of life – diathesis – immunity to hypnotism – the 3 avenues of hypnotism – God consciousness – calculative thinking vs. inspired wisdom. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 50 min. 54 sec.

• Tape # 46 Fearlessness: [sound quality is fair because of echo] [Prior to beginning of tape, student had asked question about having “drawn a blank” when asked to take a psychological test.] Fear – explaining vs. understanding, cause vs. meaning – fear and resistance in the psychotherapeutic situation – traditional medical model of therapy vs. helping patient see mode of being in the world – model of Jesus – self-concern – the habit of fearfulness – anxiety neurosis – unmasking fear – fear as the source of illness and problems – overcoming fear – reorienting thought – being a beneficial presence in the world – stoicism, courage & willfulness vs. fearlessness & shouldlessness. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 44 min. 6 sec

• Tape # 47 Self-Destruction: Case presentation: Lonely, bored double amputee who drinks too much calls crisis phone center repeatedly. Dialogue: seeking the meaning vs. operational solution – nothing comes into experience uninvited – looking for the unconscious idea present in patient’s thought -- leading the patient to the “3 Rs” – shift from operational to existential solution – self-induced victimization – self indulgence, self-confirmation and self-destruction – suicide – healthy vs sick self-esteem and humility. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 52 min. 59 sec.

• Tape # 48 Phenomenological Discernment: Hearing new concepts –“new wine into old bottles” -- individual case of phone call from desperate patient – The metapsychiatrist in crisis situations – listening for meaning -- knowing vs. doing – phenomenological analysis – discerning meanings – countertransference awareness – discerning patient’s hidden thoughts and intentions – meaning of the term “word of God” – integration of the word of God in the therapist – hermeneutic clarification – helping the patient – The 2 Intelligent Questions – a Zen koan – the tendency to distort meanings of concepts – going beyond religion – immunity to the fear of being judged or diagnosed. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 52 min. 16 sec.

• Tape # 49 Excitement: Case presentation of chaotic family life in which the children suffer from hyperactivity, stuttering, breath-holding, nervous tics, fighting, overeating . Dialogue: interpersonal relationships and interaction thinking – love of excitement and dread of boredom – life which is neither exciting nor boring – values , pathology and health – recognition, regret, reformation – impact of values on our lives – what we cherish, fear, hate – medical psychotherapy vs. Metapsychiatry’s approach – parents’ values and family’s mental climate. Setting: Class of professional psychotherapists and pastoral counselors.

Time: 50 min. 49 sec.

• Tape # 70 Wholeness: Asking intelligent questions—How to realize wholeness—Definition of wholeness—“The wave and the ocean”—Darkness/ignorance in juxtaposition to the realization of wholeness—The 10th Principle of Metapsychiatry—Moment-to-moment realization of Truth—Information to transformation—Awareness of our motivations—The sincere seeker vs. the ”knower”, ”thinker”, ”thief”, dreamer”, ”hitchhiker”—Radical sincerity—Valid motivation --”The devil’s pitchfork” of seduction, provocation, intimidation—Immunity to distractions—Praying for others—Praying without wanting something—The desire for personal healing power—Forgiveness—The 7th Principle of Metapsychiatry—Paying attention—“Ex tenebris lux”. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 59 min.46 sec.

• Tape 71 Prayer & Meditation: [very poor sound quality] Repressing and suppressing thoughts vs. transcending thoughts—Helping vs. being helpful—Unsolicited solicitude—Spiritual ambition—Liberation from human foibles—Forgiveness—Visualizing/imagining/self-hypnotism/self-deception/wishful thinking vs. realization/awareness/“sunyata”—letting go of the past—[unclear about a doctor in Texas]—Desire to avoid people—[unclear question & answer]—Eating too much vs. finding fulfillment [unclear]—what God wants—[unclear question about affluence]—obstacles to affluence—[unclear ending]. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 60 min.36 sec.

• Tape # 72 Solitariness: [Some students’ questions sometimes have fuzzy sound.] Different kinds of judging—Judging people vs. judging values and ideas—Valid response to observing another’s invalid behavior—Outgrowing our families, the world and attachments—Four ways to participate in society: positive involvement, negative involvement, isolating (the “loner”) and solitariness—The example of Daniel as a solitary individual and model of spiritual excellence—Immunity to others’ desire to control us—Question about houseguest who seems lazy--Healing the desire to control others—Question about eating alone or with others—Eating as the search for approval and being loved—A Zen master’s approach to eating and resting—Question about scuba diving ear pressure problems—Examining motives—Question about roach infestation—Maintaining purity of consciousness—Definition of “purity of consciousness—Being appreciated vs. being liked—Bragging vs. Gratitude—Self-deception vs. radical sincerity—Discerning the difference between the world’s good and God’s good. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 55 min.26 sec.

• Tape # 73 Work Issues: Forthrightness and the desire to be liked--Corruptibility--Making mistakes in one’s work—Examining motives—Wanting/not wanting--Earnings and worth—Envy—Comparing ourselves with others—Being here for God—The source of our good--Looking for a job—Our real job--Competition with co-workers—Comparing ourselves with others—The world’s standards--[No sound during part of question] – Declining income—The need to be helpful—Commitment to spiritual values--False sense of personal responsibility—Beneficial person vs. beneficial presence—121st Psalm--[Sound lost during part of question]—Resenting co-worker’s lack of skill—Examining our thoughts about others--To strike or not to strike (with labor union)?—Valid contribution to disputes—Preserving spiritual perspective--Meeting production standards—Judgmentalism vs. gratitude--Inadequate compensation—Where do I belong?—Finding our right place—Pure generosity—Bible’s “parable of the sower”--Being in a hurry—Impatience—“pushing a string”--Doing paperwork in a bureaucracy--Distraction form PAGL--Spiritual standards—What God wants—Being here for God—Sincerity—Commitment. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California. Students ask prepared questions.

Time: 59 min. 35 sec.

• Tape # 74 Super-conductivity: Time, God, and perfect timing—Harmonizing Intelligence of the universe—Super-conductivity—Physical universe as shadow of spiritual evolution—Receptivity to inspired ideas—God and Man as one—Resistance to the substance of God—The source of all thought—Beyond “funnel consciousness”—Wanting, resistance, and existential crisis—The world’s solutions vs. the spiritual path’s—Solutions to crises—Autonomy vs. being God-governed—Constant attention—The therapist’s role in a patient’s existential crisis—Clarification vs. Interpretation—Treating modes of being-in-the-world—The therapeutic value of true compassion—Meditation in a crisis—Spiritual discernment of thoughts—Loving God’s solutions—Aloplastic and autoplastic—Ignorance and innocence—Social vs. existential anxiety—Remedy to social anxiety. Setting: Dr. Hora visits California class.

Time: 58 min. 16 sec.

• Tape # 75 The Land of PAGL: Buddhist “Pure Land” and the Land of PAGL—Definition of “spiritual blessedness”—Liberation from the hardships of life—The importance of being interested in spiritual blessedness—The Land of PAGL vs. “fool’s paradise” & hypomanic behavior—Being here for God—Valid idea of happiness--Cherishing—Finding happiness—Information to transformation—The “Meditation of Glowing”—Commitment—Guarding consciousness—Wanting—The talent of discernment—Spiritualizing concepts—Spiritual concept of business—Moving from good to better—Feeling guilty—Self-confirming restitution vs. sincere reorientation—From doing to knowing—Judging and criticizing vs. blessing and compassion—Being here for God. Setting: Dr. Hora visits California class.

Time: 62 min.

• Tape # 76 Dualism: Defining love as emotion, quality of thought, or divine Reality—Judging by appearances and dualism vs. non-dual realm and “righteous judgment”—Dependence and independence—Good & evil, health & sickness—Biblical stories as allegories—Adam & Eve—Returning to Paradise—Slavery & freedom-fighting vs. realization of freedom—Solitariness vs. loneliness, isolation, separation—Paying attention & contemplation vs. concentration—Effort—Information vs. transformation—Seeing meanings of phenomena and understanding reality—Being late or on time vs. harmonious living—“The Four Horsemen”—The apocalypse. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California

Time: 57 min. 43 sec

• Tape # 77 Asking questions: Prayer as petition—Valid “asking”—Attentiveness—The value of meditation—Learning to listen—“Asking in my name”, per Jesus—Preparing ourselves to receive—What we need—Asking the right question—Judging vs. blessing—Interpreting Biblical references to asking—Receptivity to God’s grace—Valuing experiences vs. interest in the spiritual—Enlightened living—Simplicity, clarity, integrity—Radical sincerity and forthrightness—Maudlin sentimentalism—Backsliding—Motivation in asking—Seeking healing—Suffering as a call for healing—Being healthy for God—Discerning God’s will—The reality of now—Definition of “here”, being here for God—“Ask and ye shall receive”—Ongoing process of enlightened life—Difficulty in asking questions—Knowers vs. seekers—Clear questions—Experiences as thoughts perceived organismically. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California

Time: 60 min. 7 sec.

• Tape # 78 The Beatitudes: Meaning of “poor in spirit”—the existential relevancy of the Beatitudes and their deeper meaning—“Blessed are they who mourn”—Valid and invalid attachments/what we cherish—Platitudes vs. Beatitudes—“Blessed are you when men shall revile you…”—the Zen master’s response to being persecuted—Learning not to be defensive or afraid—“Blessed are they who are merciful”—depersonalizing attacks and injustices—The real “enemy”—Receptivity and forgiveness in the Beatitudes—True and permanent forgiveness—The harm of carrying a grudge—Repressed thoughts and compulsive behavior—Mercy and self-condemnation—Various approaches to spiritual study—The troublesome nature of personal attachments vs. loving someone—The nature of attachments—The liberation of true love—“The meek shall inherit the earth”—Shouldlessness—Principle vs. person—“Blessed are the peacemakers”—Beneficial presence vs. beneficial person—conflict & personalities vs. issues—“Be ye therefore perfect…”—Perfection vs. perfectionism—The Beatitudes and Metapsychiatric principles—“Hunger and thirst after righteousness”—Seeking through suffering and wisdom—The grace of wisdom—Unreceptivity—“Pure in heart and purity of motive—“The heart” as symbolic seat of motivation—The first principle of Metapsychiatry. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California

Time: 60 min. 34 sec.

• Tape # 79 Healing of Attachments: Losing “the world”—Boredom & excitement—Deprivation vs. losing interest—What is “the good of God”?—What do we get?—Bliss consciousness—Believing in God vs. understanding—Discerning our attachments—Cherishing, hating, and fearing—Looking forward vs. looking back—Healthy way of teaching—Indications of wanting something for ourselves—Mourning the loss of someone—Desiring companionship—Self image and the “4 Ws”—Resentments, forgiveness, and letting go of the past—Surfacing memories and “unfinished business”—Definition of “forgiveness”—Compulsions—Inviting experiences—Love vs. attachments—Real life vs. ego functions—Importance of awareness—Receptivity to understanding. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California

Time: 61min. 23 sec.

• Tape # 80 – Being here for God [Sound quality of students’ voices is poor.] Improving the dream of life vs. enlightenment—Transcending the law of material existence—Animal, human, and spiritual levels of being—Discerning the spiritual—Commitment & sincerity in maintaining mindfulness—Preaching Love-Intelligence without words—The power of invalid thoughts—Seeking meaning vs. mental vanity—Observing our thought processes—The soul as transcendent observer—Ceaseless prayer—The soul (transcendent observer) vs. the super ego (inner observer)—Intellectual knowledge vs. awareness—Spiritual knowing—Distractions from enlightened life vs. the First Principle of Metapsychiatry—The Living Soul—Healing/awakening from the dream of life in matter—Meditation vs. auto-suggestion/hypnosis—Meditation vs. visualization & imagination—The need for sincere commitment/interest/attentiveness—Fear vs. selfless love—Suffering and receptivity. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 58 min.:25 sec.

• Tape # 81 – The Living Soul. Definition of the “Living Soul”—The “Buddha Nature”—The aim of Metapsychiatry studies—The koan: “Show me the face you had before you were born”—Freedom from parental fantasies and educational influences—“Hid with Christ in God”—Forming mental images (imagining)—Non-dimensional reality vs. the phenomenal, dimensional world—Interpretation of the Biblical “firmament”—Spiritual discernment—Parable of the tares and wheat—Beholding—Evidence of spiritual growth—Living “in the world”—The meaning of inner conflict/”flesh warring against the spirit”—Lettting God help us—Self-deception—Insufficient interest vs. radical sincerity—The pervasiveness of ego-gratification—Intellectualism—Motivation in the way we see others—Authenticity—The meaning of anger—Children as extensions of parental consciousness—The true nature of the personal mind vs. the divine Mind. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 61 min.:23 sec.

• Tape # 82 Meditation [Sound quality not good; voices echo.] [Tape begins in midst of a dialogue.] Wanting—Wanting to be healed—Wanting vs. being attentive—Meditation and healing—“I want; I don’t want”—“God wants”—The purpose of life—23rd Psalm—Meditation and PAGL—Resisting understanding—Sense of separation from God—Realization of oneness with God—The prodigal son—Separation individuation—Experiences during meditation—Silencing the clamoring ego—Rebelling against progress—Wanting vs. seeking—Sleeplessness—Thinking vs. contemplation—3 levels of meditation: contemplation, existential, spiritual—Shifting from the person to the non-dimensional—The parting of the Red Sea—Starving the ego. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 61 min.: 45 sec.

• Tape # 83 - Interaction vs. Omniaction. Dr. Hora comments on an earlier paper he had written—The observer and the observed are one— Inviting experiences—What irritates us in others—The attraction of interaction thinking— Removing the “me” from the picture—Neither self or other—Seeing with compassion— From participant to transcendent observer—Practicing awareness of our thoughts— Three kinds of people—Rising above interaction—Being here for God—The danger & futility of interaction thinking—Living “above the Firmament”—PAGL as a by-product—Lose sight of the “me”—“Erase yourself utterly”—Being an instrument of Love-Intelligence and the fullness of God’s glory. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 61 min.: 57 sec.

• Tape # 84 – Forgiveness. Definition of forgiveness—Carrying a grudge—How to give up blaming—Hurting ourselves with blaming—Jesus’ instruction on forgiving—The sincere desire to forgive—Remembering repressed hurts—Compulsions as repressed thoughts—Undesired memories—Embarrassment or the fear of being overwhelmed by repressed thoughts—The fruits of forgiving/not forgiving— Transmutation of thought energy into behavior, experience, illness—The Buddha—Inviting and immunity to abuse—The parable of “the tares and the wheat”—Requirements for forgiving— Forgiveness is difficult—“Pray for your enemies”—The Prayer of Beholding—When we notice a compulsive desire—The 3 Rs—Remembering past hurts—The need for God in the forgiving— Forgiveness as a holy process—Dropping interaction thinking.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst's class in California.

Time: 58 min.: 58 sec.

• Tape # 85 – Compassion. Psychological vs. Metapsychiatric views of compassion—“Understanding”—Repression—Meaning vs. cause—Self-deception—Respecting someone’s right to be ignorant—Preaching Metapsychiatry non-verbally—Patients who leave—Letting-be vs. leaving alone and indifference—The art of therapy— When the therapist is judgmental or ambitious—Recognition, regret, and reorientation— A false sense of personal responsibility—A houseguest with unwelcome behavior— Problems resolved in consciousness, not interaction—The difference between the Christ and the man Jesus—The Christ consciousness—The enlightened vs. the unenlightened—An example of math and the mathematician—When someone is fired—Fear and self-concern vs. “being here for God”. Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.
Time: 55 min.: 18 sec.

· Tape # 86 – Existential commitment Comparison of “existential psychiatry” with “existential Metapsychiatry”—Atheistic, Godless approach to existence—Phobias—The human condition, “maya”—Coping vs. transcendence—The juxtaposition of illusion with reality—Asking: “What is the meaning of…?”—“Immerse oneself in the river of life”—Using Metapsychiatry on others without applying it to oneself—Being qualified to benefit others—Praying for others vs. purifying our own consciousness—Spiritualizing our outlook—The Christ-like perspective—Obedience as behavior vs. paying attention and valuing—Peaceful sleep—Kinds of denial vs. the truth—Intellectualism vs. Sincere seeking—Being resentful or frustrated—Being committed to being here for God.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 59 min.: 07 sec.

Tape 87: [awaiting complete version of the tape]

· Tape # 88 – Seeking The Living Soul: our true selfhood—“Hid with Christ in God”—The material world, counterfeit of Reality—Thought in visible form—Awareness, a faculty of consciousness—Form & formlessness vs. Reality—Spiritual discernment—Awakening to Reality— “Original sin”—Self-confirmation is a veil—Adam & Eve—Receptivity and transformation—Seekers vs. knowers—What “thinkers” see—Prejudice—The value of the material world—Prayer—Visualization—The “still small voice”—Forgiveness—Purifying our view of ourselves and others.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 59 min.: 01 sec.

· Tape # 89 – Adam’s Rib. Definition of “enlightenment”—The apparent prevalence of women in spiritual seeking—“Chopping wood and carrying water” (the Zen monks)—We are not what we do; we do what we are—Seeking happiness in the human condition—Doing more work than someone else—Comparing ourselves to others—Fighting for equality vs. seeking transcendent reality—No justice, nor injustice, in divine reality—Letting God help us [“the 5th principle”]—We suffer from our viewpoints—“Wives submitting to husbands”(St. Paul)—Transcending gender—Experiencing “female symptoms”—A desire for completeness—Seeing our fantasies by meditating on the Living Soul—Deciding vs. being guided—The enlightened marriage—Sexual preference—Transcending “The Five Gates of Hell”—Relationships vs. joint participation in the good of God.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 52 min.: 10 sec.

· Tape # 90 – Envy or Gratitude. Psychology’s cause & effect reasoning—Oral fixations and psychological treatment—Cause & effect reasoning vs. finding the meaning—Gratification of envy—Definition of envy—“The Four Horsemen”: envy, jealousy, rivalry, malice—Spiritual immaturity—Ego as a belief in a personal mind—The desire for mental dominancy—When teachers desire mental dominancy—Mental, physical, economic aspects of envy—Admiration as a form of envy—“Beware of compliments!”—Being envied and feeling guilty—When parents envy—The remedy to envy--Gratitude , PAGL—Immunity to the envy of others—Being in the presence of one who desires mental dominance—God is the only mind—Sibling rivalry—To envy or not-to-envy vs. understanding the truth—Parasitism and envy—Wanting admiration—Being admired vs. being here for God—Envying another’s spiritual understanding—Definitions of “obsession” and “compulsion”—Generosity: material vs. spiritual—Ambition vs. aspiration.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 60:05

· Tape # 91 – Beauty. Importance of motivation in creating beauty—Discerning spiritual beauty—Helping others learn to see beauty—Receptivity and awakening to aesthetic appreciation—Protection from vanity and pride—Seeing oneself as beautiful—The love of being loving—Objectless love—Loving others—“Love thy neighbor as thyself”—Unrequited love—Beauty vs. attractiveness—Being-here-for-God as existential fulfillment—Appreciating being in a beautiful place—The effect of carrying grudges on seeing beauty and being beautiful—Seeing beauty without using our eyes—Materialism and seeing ugliness.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 58:19

· Tape # 92b – Issues of Suicide. Medical/legal responsibilities and Metapsychiatry—Power-madness provokes power-madness— Issues of personal power—Inadequacy of trying to help people on their terms—Coping with life by yielding to the love of God—What the Metapsychiatric approach requires of the therapist—Intellectual vs. inspired response—False sense of personal responsibility—Self-confirmation is self-destruction—Police functions vs. healing functions—Court-ordered treatment—Hypnotism and seduction/provocation/intimidation— Saving someone—Self-assertion, ego strength, operationalism—Reacting vs. responding—Helping vs. being helpful—Trespassing and influencing—“Teachers of Truth”.
Setting: Dr. Hora at a post-conference class in California. A psychiatrist, who is also a student of Metapsychiatry, presents a case about a depressed suicidal patient to the class

Time: 55:53

Tape # 93b – Commitment. [Reference is made throughout the class to the various levels of spiritual maturity, referring to ideas Dr. Hora had presented in his paper that February weekend in 1984 at the conference on “Spiritual Maturity”. For a list of these levels and for clarification, listen to Tape #8 of that conference, or read Session No. 56 “How mature is our God?”, a printed version of that paper, in the book Beyond the Dream .] Effective prayer—An existentially valid idea of God—Transcending religion—Parental discipline vs. control—The meaning of discipleship—Teaching without tyrannizing—Influencing vs. being influential—Man is not “natural”—The importance of the great spiritual seers—The one God, with a capital “G”—Ascension—Watching television and living in the world—Transcending the world vs. trying to change the world—Being here for God existentially vs. operationally (evangelizing, trying to influence)—Prosperity vs. harmonious prospering—Reacting vs. responding—“The devil”—Definitions of God and evolving ideas of God—Parable of the talents—Commitment—Christ consciousness and ascension—Awareness of inspired creative consciousness—Permanent meditation—“The Second Coming”—Becoming enlightened—The body clamors for attention—Doubt vs. receptivity.
Setting: Dr. Hora leads a class in California, with students of Jan & Ann Linthorst’s at the School of Metapsychiatry.

Time: 60:43

Tape # 94 – Human Sexuality Issues. Healthy sex—Dr. Hora recalls his dialogue with Zen master Furukawa—Outgrowing sexual desire vs. abstinence—Sex as an expression of love vs. fantasies—Compulsive sex and repressed anger—Interest in sex—Sex is not the problem—The operational approach to sex—Desire to touch and be touched—Jesus to Mary: “Don’t touch me…”—Lack of interest vs. disinterest in sex—Being a “eunuch for God”—Differing sexual interest between partners—Touching children—Mother’s motives in nursing infants—Avoiding sensual stimulation—Love vs. lust—Conveying love vs. seeking pleasure—Touching children & petting animals—“Doubting Thomas”—Nudity & prurient interest—Motives—“You can have all the sex you want…”—Importance of mental content.
Setting: Telephone class: Dr. Hora in New York, students in Jan Linthorst’s class in California.

Time: 58:46

Tape # 95b – Safety and Security Fear of one’s own thoughts—“Above the firmament” in the ocean of Love-Intelligence—Being attentive to valid vs. seductive, frightening, provocative thoughts—Learning to be safe in the world—“Nothing comes into experience uninvited”—The attraction of sexual, violent, negative thoughts—Fascination of evil—Self-confirmation and self-destruction—The 91st Psalm—Attention as “dwelling place”—Consciousness of the ultimate Reality—Locking our doors—Awareness of what we are concerned about—“Am I still susceptible to distraction?”—Human vs. spiritual happiness (PAGL)—Fear for another’s safety—What it means to “bless” someone—The only “I AM”—Belief that we are persons separated from God vs. understanding that we are emanations of God’s being—Fear of guns—“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”—Fear of death—Discovering our identity—The attraction of excitement—Sensualism—The “five gates of hell”—The compulsion to be in control—Violence as a form of sensualism—Phobias and the desire for control—Understanding vs. belief—Skepticism—Biblical use of “belief” and “trust”.
Setting: Seminar via telephone. Dr. Hora in New York, students in seminar, led by Ann Linthorst, in California.

Time: 57:49

Tape # 96 – Open Questions Symptoms getting better or worse—Absence from the body—The purpose of Metapsychiatry is individual redemption—Seeking the meaning of problems—Giving up cherished practices and ideas—Asking questions—Sincere motivation—Curiosity vs. interest—Discerning the truth—Mourning and loss—Being victimized—Self-deception and avoiding embarrassment—Using Metapsychiatry to get something—Teacher’s problem controlling bullies—Wants vs. needs—The only need—Going to sleep—Practicing dying—The fear of dying—Restless sleep—Insomnia—Thoughts before going to bed—Helpful environments for meditation.
Setting:Class via telephone. Dr. Hora in New York, students in California.

Time: 59:07

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