After the Ego

About: Helping others through inner listening

There is a spiritual law at work when we open up to someone else. Because in that moment, we are taking a risk and performing an act of humility. And becoming humble—as opposed to prideful—is very healing. In fact, one of the most harmful things we do to ourselves is to try to appear more perfect than we are. But the moment we show another person what’s really going on inside us, we will instantly feel relief. Even if the other person doesn’t give us a single bit of advice.

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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: Becoming aware of our faults

For many, there’s a gap between what we say we want in life and what we’re actually getting out of life. Why is there this gap? And really, why bother trying to close the gap if, in the end, it seems like darkness will keep winning anyways? It may be helpful to realize that, no, darkness can’t win in the long run. The reason is simply this: the greater our darkness, or negativity, the lower our awareness. In other words, opting to remain in the dark about our own negativity closes off our ability to perceive what’s going on in and around 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 deep impact of childhood wounds

What’s wrong with having a few faults, you ask? After all, everybody has them! Or perhaps we think that since our faults aren’t as bad as someone else’s, they don’t matter so much. Too often we make allowances for ourselves, saying, “I’m not the only one doing this,” or “Surely others are doing worse.” Or we say, “the devil made me do it,” as though it’s just a coincidence that dark forces were influencing us. No, we’re the ones who open that door by ignoring our own hidden inner obstacles.

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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: Aligning our will with God’s will

Eons ago, long before the beginning of time, something bad happened. And in a nutshell, human beings—who were spiritual beings at the time—got in trouble. Our punishment was a bit like being sent to our room. In this case, we were sent into darkness. Which raises at least two questions: What did we do that was so wrong? And who handed out this dreadful punishment?

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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: Sorting out the parts of the self 

Waking up means all parts of the human psyche work together to shift which part is in the lead. The part that needs waking up is the Higher Self. In most people, it lies dormant in the center of our being, rarely seen and seldom consulted. It’s not so much that our Higher Self is asleep, but we’re simply no longer aware of it. It’s patiently waiting for us to access it—to operate our lives from this deeper place within.

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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: Waking up to our true self 

The great longing of all humanity is to participate in the life that follows after going through this transition. Meanwhile, in our ignorance, we fight this transition. Nevertheless, the longing always remains. Because the state of union is the natural state of all God’s creatures. And in that state, there’s no loneliness anymore. In our present state, however, many of us still feel essentially alone. In this state of isolation, the best we can hope for is a feeling that others are in the same boat as we are. That others also feel utterly alone. But that’s not at all what the new state really feels like.

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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: Moving into a new epoch

As we enter a new era—the start of a new epoch, really—we are going through a time of crisis. But this is just a normal part of growing up. And ready or not, it’s now time for humanity to step fully into adulthood. Let's look at where we are heading next.

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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: What salvation really means

Before we begin on a healing journey in which we remove the obstacles that are blocking our inner light—remembering what Christ taught, which is that heaven is within—we can only believe with our ego mind. And belief as a mental concept has no spiritual value.

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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 faster way to heaven within

Just as Kabbalah is the mystical arm of the Jewish tradition, there is a mystical form of Islam called Sufism. It’s a bit harder to find a mystical path that dovetails with Christianity. A good candidate might be the path of Phoenesse, which is built on the profound teachings offered to humanity by the Pathwork Guide. This fits well from the perspective that both Phoenesse and Pathwork are Christic paths that don’t resemble Christianity at all.

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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: Personal experience becomes our proof

Are the Pathwork teachings—and in turn, my Phoenesse writings—essentially a philosophy? Perhaps. For according to Manson, “Philosophy is the inquiry into our understanding of reality, knowledge, and how we should live.” Indeed, that describes the Pathwork teachings to a T. And believing isn’t part of the program.

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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