Jill Loree
They told me in AA that nothing messes up a drinking career like an AA meeting. Once you open up to a different perspective, it takes serious work to put the blinders back on and stay in the dark.
If I have a hope for readers of this book, it’s that it messes up your trance. If, upon finding yourself in the middle of a muddle, you lift up your head and simply acknowledge, “Hey, I must not be in truth. Please God, help me see the truth.” Well, then, my work is done.
In truth, we each have everything inside us that we need to make it all the way home. But we’re also remarkably good at hiding this from ourselves. On my path, it has been the way-showers who have made all the difference. They’re the ones who have gone this way before me and have been willing to come hold the flashlight for me.
I also heard someone in AA say that “whenever the hand of an alcoholic reaches out for help, I hope the hand of AA is there for them.” I second that. It’s part of the reason many recovering alcoholics keep going to meetings. To keep giving back.
In a similar way, that’s why I write these books. Whenever someone who is hurting reaches out for help, I want them to find the Guide’s teachings. This wisdom has helped carry me to the other side of many painful passages. They are what will eventually lead me all the way home.
We each have to do our own work. But the Guide is standing nearby holding the light. We only need to reach for it.
Scott Wisler
After a few decades of doing deep healing work, what my work looks like now is changing. The focus is shifting to inhabiting my Higher Self, more and more. But we all have to start by doing the hard work of self-facing.
This book, then, is about facing into the truth of our temporary state of being and working with all we find there. Truthfully, it is not an easy stage, and it might last a while. Parts of this work still goes on long into one’s spiritual journey, as long as we’re in the body. Most people do their utter best to skip over it, avoid it, go around it. I encourage you to lean into it.
Early on, I was in one seemingly never-ending emotional rough patch after another. I said to my Helper, “If only you had a magic wand and could make this better for me.” He replied, “I don’t have a magic wand. There is no magic wand. But even if I did, I would not use it. I would not rob you of the experience of growing through this.” I am grateful for his wisdom.
So likewise, Jill and I can’t make it easier for you to do your work. But what we can do, and tried to do here, is to give you a sliver of a view of what it looks like, and thereby take some of the unknown out of it.
I can unequivocally tell you it is worth every step.
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