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Index
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
• Awakening the Dormant Spiritual Potentials
• The Unfulfillment of the Child’s Legitimate Needs
• How to Dissolve the Pain of the Unfulfilled Legitimate Needs
• Overcoming the Resistance to Exposing False Needs
• Present Suffering Is the Result of Pursuing False Needs
• Letting Go of the Demand for Fulfillment of Unreal 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
• The Universal Life Principle and the “Forgetful” Ego
• The Conflict Between Yearning For and Fearing the Real Self
• Misinterpretations of the Universal Life Principle in Religion
• How to Let Go of the Ego
• Analogy with the Law of Gravity
• The Human Reaction to the Real Self—Shame and Falsification
• The Biblical Symbolism of Nakedness
16 Consciousness: Fascination with Creation
• Knowing, Feeling, and Willing as Tools of Creative Consciousness
• Three Conditions of Experiencing Yourself as the Universal Spirit
• Self-Observation and Purification on Three Levels
• The Origin of “Sin” or Evil
• The Way Out of Negative 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
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