“The first and most obvious principle of evil is separation…This includes separation from God as well as from others and from ourselves. It shows up in our cruelty toward others, after which we delude ourselves that somehow we are not to blame. Or we are the victim rather than the perpetrator. We disconnect from where evil lives in us…

We refuse to see that our brother and sister’s pain as unavoidably also our pain. Too often, we ignore this basic truth. And on top of that, we actually experience pleasure and excitement when we cause suffering and pain, and spread destruction. It’s funny how much we do this, but not ha-ha funny…

– From Pearls, Chapter 13: Uncloaking the Three Faces of Evil: Separation, Materialism and Confusion | In a Nutshell

1 Privacy & secrecy: A boost or bust for finding closeness

2 Reading between the lines of the Lord’s Prayer

3 Exploring the spiritual nature of political systems

4 Debunking the curious superstition of pessimism

5 Preparing for reincarnation: Every life counts

6 Unwinding humanity’s relationship with time

7 Basking in grace & not building on deficit

8 Articulating the Power of the Word

9 Why flubbing on perfection is the way to find joy

10 Two rebellious reactions to authority

11 Bringing ourselves to order, inside and out

12 The right and wrong way to think positively

13 Uncloaking the three faces of evil: Separation, materialism and confusion

14 Meditating to connect three voices: The ego, the Lower Self & the Higher Self

15 What’s the real spiritual meaning of crisis?

16 Mastering the art of stepping into leadership

17 Discovering the key to letting go & letting God

©2016 Jill Loree. All rights reserved.

“If we hindered the cycles of physical change along the way, by somehow constricting space for physical expansion, atrophy and finally death would occur. We would destroy life. The unseen aspects of an organism—the psychic, spiritual, mental and emotional levels—are no different. Yet humans carry with them a mass image—or a collective hidden belief—that says we should fear change…

This fear of expanding creates a narrow space we must wedge our psyche into…If we are afraid of change, we will atrophy the spiritual muscle we need to develop in order to expand; we’ll box ourselves into a nonmoving state and scarcely breathe in an effort to thwart change. That explains, in a nutshell, the human condition…The way out of our dollhouse-sized existence is to create a new consciousness within that doesn’t fear change—that trusts change as a natural and desirable way to live…”

–From Gems, Chapter 7: Rolling with Change and Overcoming Fear of Death | In a Nutshell

1 Expanding our awareness and exploring our fascination with creation

2 The evolutionary process and why we can’t stop it

3 How consciousness evolves between individuals and groups

4 Claiming our total capacity for greatness

5 Facing our deepest fear and unfolding our greatest longing

6 Finding balance within instead of banking on outer rules

7 Rolling with change and overcoming fear of death

8 The pain of injustice and the truth about fairness

9 Why lazy is the worst way to be

10 Spotting the tricks of our ego and getting over ourselves

11 Four avenues for reaching the cosmic nougat at our core

12 Four pragmatic steps for finding faith and addressing doubt

13 Landing our desires by letting go of our demands

14 How to visualize living in a state of unity

15 Surrendering to the double-sided nature of duality

16 Relaxing into the struggle to find the oneness

©2016 Jill Loree. All rights reserved.

“We have both a conscious mind—the stuff we know—and an unconscious mind—the stuff we don’t know we know. The unconscious is by far the stronger of the two…The unconscious should be credited with far more than it typically is…It’s what controls our fate…Fate is nothing other than the events that occur due to the governing forces of our unconscious. It’s the tiger and we’re the tail…

The black hole of our unconscious includes our petrified wrong conclusions about life, our destructive patterns of behavior, and our negative emotions caused by our unresolved problems. All this we have stuffed down in there and forgotten about…Our unconscious is a repository for the constructive building blocks of the universe too—unending creativity, utter wisdom, divine truth and love. Yessiree Bob, it’s all in there…

Let’s now learn how to go about interpreting the language of our unconscious in our daily lives…Knowing this particular language will do more for us than knowing a dozen foreign Earth-languages…”

–From Bones, Chapter 15: Learning to Speak the Language of the Unconscious | In a Nutshell

1 Emotional growth and its function

2 The importance of feeling all our feelings, including fear

3 The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask Self

4 Three basic personality types: Reason, Will and Emotion

5 Intellect and will as tools or hindrances to self-realization

6 The origin and outcome of the Idealized Self-Image

7 Love, Power and Serenity in divinity or in distortion

8 How and why we recreate childhood hurts

9 Images and the deep, deep damage they do

10 Unpacking the pain of our old destructive patterns

11 Our habit of transferring our split onto everyone

12 Finding out the truth about ourselves, including our faults

13 The ubiquitous faults of Self-Will, Pride and Fear

14 Exposing the mistaken image we have about God

15 Learning to speak the language of the unconscious

16 How pleasure gets twisted into self-perpetuating cycles of pain

17 Overcoming our negative intention by identifying with our spiritual self

18 How to use meditation to create a better life

19 The giant misunderstanding about freedom and self-responsibility

©2016 Jill Loree. All rights reserved.