Pierrakos Eva - The pathwork of self-transformation

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THE PATHWORK OF SELF-TRANSFORMATION
A Bantam Book / May 1990

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Guide (Spirit)
The pathwork of self-transformation / [channeled] by Eva Pierrakos.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-83047-0
1. Spirit writings. 2. Self-realizationMiscellanea. 3. Spiritual lifeMiscellanea. I. Pierrakos, Eva, 19151979.
II. Title.
BF1301.G94 1990
133.93dc20

8927802

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No matter where you are in life, what your profession is, what your problems are, whether you are young or old, this book will help you see yourself and life in a new light. This new light combines reason with love and illuminates a path-way leading into your innermost self.

This book is channeled material. Its true author is a discarnate being who did not give himself a name, but who came to be known as the Guide. He delivered, through Eva Pierrakos, 258 lectures on the nature of psychological and spiritual reality and on the process of personal spiritual development. This process came to be known as the Pathwork and the transmissions were called the Pathwork Lectures or the Guide Lectures.

There are many volumes of channeled material in print today, and it therefore seems right that we do our best to let the potential reader know what distinguishes this book from so many others. Let us introduce you to the two principal distinguishing features of the Pathwork guidance:

1. The channeled teachings of the Pathwork Guide outline a complete path for personal transformation and spiritual self-realization.

2. This path includes a profound understanding of personal negativityits sources, consequences, and a process to meet and transform it. This process, as taught by the Guide, is unmatched anywhere else.

The goal of personal psychological work is to become self-actualized, to realize our individual human potential for meaningful work in the world and for loving relationships with others.

The goal of spiritual practice is to experience enlightenment, or unitive consciousness, our oneness with all things. The aim of spiritual work is to know our innermost identity as God-inspired beings, filled with love and light.

A complete path must help us address both the frustrations in the fulfillment of our personal lives and the limitations that prevent our spiritual awakening. Most approaches to personal and spiritual growth offer us help for only part of this journey. We still want to know: How can I get from where I am to where I want to be?

Most present-day channeled material, as well as the esoteric traditions of most religions, tell us that we create our own reality. But if this is so and I am indeed the creator of my life, what part of me is it that creates events that I find quite unpleasant? Why dont I do a better job of creating the life that I believe I want? Why are some aspects of myself so hard to change?

The most valuable contribution the Guide has made to the modern psychological-spiritual quest is a practical, rational, and honest way to get from where we are to where we want to be. All spiritual teachers describe the enlightened state of love and harmony in which one feels at one with everyone and surrenders joyfully to God. We have also read the descriptions from humanistic and transpersonal psychologists of the fulfilled life of the self-actualized, whole person.

But if we do not deceive ourselves, we will know that we fall short of these goals. We need a way to accept ourselves fully as we are now, and to work with whatever in us blocks our personal and spiritual evolution. We need maps of the psyche that do not idealize or gloss over our all-too-human failings. The Pathwork outlines a map of human consciousness that includes our devils as well as our angels, the vulnerable child as well as the competent adult, the petty ego concerns as well as the grand visionary longings.

We need guidance to give us support as we take steps from where we are now to the larger, more fulfilled, more aware person that we can be. The Pathwork encourages us to stop trying to pretend we are an idealized image of ourselves, the person who we think we ought to be. The Guide helps us to relax into an acceptance of who we honestly are and what we honestly feel, moment to moment. Any one of us who is truthful can discover disagreeable, self-centered feelings and attitudes within ourselves.

And yet we do not feel like bad people. We would like to follow the Golden Rule. Most of us would even agree that if we could love ourselves, and then our neighbors as ourselves, we would feel a lot better. Why is it so hard for me to do this? Why do I continue to be so self-centered, or, alternately, so self-degrading?

Generally speaking, we are given very little real help on these issues. Most religions give us moral commandments, often reinforced by guilt or fear, threats or cajoling, so we wont act out our negativity. When we fail, as we inevitably will, we are admonished to try harder. We are told to give over our flaws to someone elseto Christ, the church, or the guru. Or, in much contemporary guidance, we are expected to rise above our own limitations and see our negativity as merely temporary ignorance of our divinity.