After the Ego

About: Time and our shortcuts to bliss

Time is another thing that results from fragmentation. For time is really just the illusion that gets created by having a disconnected view of reality. To continue using one of the examples for this topic, time is the perception of only the partial steps, those smaller creative units. Too often we can’t see the whole structure that this particle of time is part of. And this causes us to suffer from the feeling that things are senseless.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: How creating happens

These teachings can help us change what we’re creating in life by helping us regain our inner light. We’ll start out talking about some general creation concepts in Part One. In Part Two, we’ll explore the illusion of time and some of the ways we attempt to take shortcuts. Then in Part Three we’ll move into specific ways we can use these truths in our own personal lives. We’ll especially explore the three most common ways people attempt to escape living in the present.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: The many faces of humor

Humor is a funny thing (pun intended). It can wear many faces. Depending on what’s going on inside us, our sense of humor may carry a mix of both lightness and darkness. As such, we can look at the way we use humor—at the kind of humor that tickles us—to learn some things about ourselves.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: How hidden hurts imprison us

It’s a most intriguing question: What was behind Salman Rushdie’s motivation for writing such an inflammatory story? In this essay, Jill Loree shares some insights—not about The Satanic Verses, but about the author—gained from reading his memoir, Joseph Anton. What made him do it? Believe it or not, perhaps without realizing it, he tells us.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: The process of improving

As we start doing our personal development work, we will gradually unwind the twisted wiring in ourselves. And this will bring us into more and more clarity. Our confusion about what to believe—about what is the truth—will go away. But what can happen, as we start to see things more clearly, is we pick up the sword of truth and use it to stab people. After all, even though we’re accessing more light, we still have darkness within us. Overcoming our own darkness is a long, slow process.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: The basis for better governing

Our perception of the world is backwards—or inside out—from how it actually is. In reality, the world around us is always an out-picturing of what’s inside us. Our world reflects the collective contents of our psyche. What’s happening is we are dropping the ball on the two things a democracy demands most from each of us: self-responsibility and compassion.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: How marriage works

When my husband, Scott, and I met, we immediately had a common connection through our love for the Pathwork Guide. And indeed, in our marriage, it is the tools of this spiritual path that keep us walking straight together. Over our time together, Scott and I have come to realize something interesting. When we stepped into marriage, something new was created: the union itself. And now we both have the task of keeping this new entity alive. Although we are still two individuals, we now also work as a team. And often, when one of us receives a particular message from within that pertains to us as a couple, the other doesn’t receive the same message. This is by design. Here are the four things this does.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: Perseverance and trust

The first time I picked up a Pathwork lecture, I knew I had found something special. The year was 1997, and by then, this material had already been around for a few decades. What I didn’t realize then was that the Pathwork Guide was playing the long game. And at the time, I didn’t yet understand that I, too, would now be playing the long game.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: How images color life experiences

Things are amping up right now. Collectively, the world is experiencing an influx of energy that is helping to shimmy our images to the surface. For that’s the only way we’re going to see them and heal them. This influx, then, is coming to help us heal. We can no longer bury our heads in the sand—along with our immaturity and images—and hope things will just all work out well in the end. For there is a Lower Self script running in the background of every person’s life. And if Lower Self is directing our show, the ending will always be sad.

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more

About: Images and their importance

“Here is a room full of people, and not one person is completely happy. There is not one person who would not want some kind of change...You may feel an unhappiness, unrest, disharmony, fear, insecurity, loneliness, yearning. All of you, my friends, including those who will read these words, have the power to change this if you want to.” – The Pathwork® Guide

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Appendix A: Five ways to learn about the Fall and the Plan of Salvation

Appendix B: Deep Prayer for healing

Appendix C: Understand these spiritual teachings

Appendix D: Ways to learn more