The Pathwork of Self-Transformation by Pierrakos, Eva -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Bantam New Age Books Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction 1 What Is the Path?

• Longing for a Larger and More Fulfilling State of Consciousness • The False Desire • The Realistic Longing • Learning to Endure the State of Bliss • The Pathwork and Psychotherapy • The Pathwork and Spiritual Practice • How to Find Your Real Self • Positivity and Negativity Are One Energy Current • “Images,” or Wrong Conclusions • Progress on the Path • Freeing Your Spiritual Self • Giving Up Illusions • Being Lived Through by the Spirit

2 The Idealized Self-Image

• The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask • Fear of Pain and Punishment • The Moral Mask of the Idealized Self • Self-Acceptance • The Inner Tyrant • Estrangement from the Real Self • Giving Up the Idealized Self • Coming Home

3 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts

• The Lack of Mature Love • Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood • The Fallacy of this Strategy • Reexperiencing the Childhood Hurt • How to Stop Recreating?

4 The Real God and the God-Image

• The False Concept of God • Dissolving the God-Image • God Is Not Unjust • The True Concept of God • The Eternal, Divine Laws • God Is in You and Creates Through You

5 Unity and Duality

• Understanding Is the Way to the Unified Plane • Obstructions to Finding the Real Self • Your Ego Versus Your Divine Center • The Transition from Dualistic Error to Unified Truth

6 The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex

• The Spiritual Meaning of the Erotic Force • The Difference Between Eros and Love • The Fear of Eros and the Fear of Love • The Sex Force • The Ideal Partnership of Love • The Search for the Other Soul • The Pitfalls of Marriage • True Marriage • Separateness • Choice of Partner • Eros as a Bridge

7 The Spiritual Significance of Relationship

• Unequal Development of Parts of Consciousness • Elements of Dissension and Unification • Fulfillment as a Yardstick for Personal Development • Who Is Responsible for the Relationship? • Destructive Interactions • How to Reach for Fulfillment and Pleasure

8 Emotional Growth and Its Function

• Numbing of Feelings to Avoid Unhappiness • Isolation • The Need to Exercise the Emotions • Allowing Immature Feelings to Surface • How to Activate the Growth Process • What Is True Security? • If the Feelings Are Stunted, Love Cannot Grow

9 Real and False Needs

10 Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency

• Everything in the World Exists in a State of Potentiality • Avoidance Motivation Closes Out New Vistas • A Cluster of Popular Misconceptions • Devices to Hide Weakness and Dependency on Others • The Child Within You Still Wants Validation from Others • Vicious Circle and Forcing-Current • Let Go—Let Out • Take Off the Leash Around Your Neck

11 The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis

• The Self-Perpetuating Force of Negative Emotions • Crisis Can Put an End to Negative Self-Perpetuation • Growth Is Possible Without “Dark Nights” • Outer Crisis and Inner Crisis • Leaving Crises Behind • The Message of Crises

12 The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence

• Does Evil Exist? • Right Acceptance of Evil • Evil as Distorted Creative Power • Liberating the Inner Beauty • Transformation

13 Self-Esteem

• The Inner Conflict Between Self-Indulgence and Self-Rejection • What Brings Self-Respect? • Using the Power of the Conscious Mind • Reconnection with the Instinctual Life • Unifying Love and Pleasure

14 Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self Higher Self

• The Ego as Mediator • The Meditative Attitude • The Changes Effected by the Pathwork Meditation • The Reeducation of the Destructive Self • A Way to Begin Meditation • Reconciliation of the Paradoxes of Your Life

15 Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power

16 Consciousness: Fascination with Creation

17 Creative Emptiness

• How to Open Up to the New Consciousness • The Way Leads Through Seeming Contradictions • A New Fullness Begins to Manifest • Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind • Making Your Mind an Instrument of Unification • Going Into the Emptiness • The Actual Experience • The New Person As the Receptacle of the Universal Intelligence • The Function of the Intellect in the New Person • Entering the New, Greater Life

The Voice Within: A Meditation from the Guide Background: The Guide, Eva, and the Pathwork Foundation List of Pathwork Lectures Acknowledgment About the Author