This is the great human hoax: that we are victims. There is no more painful or deadly game.
For the most part, our minds stay confined to a narrow box of perception. The more we get to know ourselves, though, the more our minds expand.
Gradually, we begin to see how we truly relate to life.
Along the way, we tend to overestimate how much we see of the whole picture. And this skews all our perceptions. It’s like seeing one corner of a vast painting and believing we see the entire thing.
In truth, the human mind is capable of infinite expansion. And eventually that’s what will happen.
In the meantime, what do we typically do?
We buy our own limited beliefs and perceptions, which keeps our mind conditioned to stay in the box. If we want to emerge from such narrow confines, we must at least realize that we do this.
Three stages of waking up
An example of our limited outlook is how often we fail to connect our inner landscapes with our outer reality.
It is painfully limiting that we refuse to see this. And that makes our minds highly untrustworthy.
This is such a widespread illusion—this notion that outer life imposes hardships on us—it’s hard to see another perspective.
If we want to grow out of this, there are the three stages we must go through.
Jill Loree grew up in northern Wisconsin with parents who embraced their Norwegian, Swedish and German heritage. Foods like lutefisk, lefse and krumkaka were prepared every Christmas. And of course there was plenty of beer, bratwurst and cheese all year round.
She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while attending college at the University of Wisconsin, and then moved into a career in technical sales and marketing. She would settle in Atlanta in 1989 and discover that the sweet spot of her career would be in marketing communications. A true Gemini, she has a degree in chemistry and a flair for writing.
One of Jill’s greatest passions in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork Guide, which she describes as “having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library.”
In 2007, she completed four years of training to become a Pathwork Helper, and stepped fully into her Helpership in 2011. In addition to offering individual and group sessions, she has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. She also led marketing activities for Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia and served on their Board of Trustees.
In 2012, Jill completed four years of kabbalah training and became certified for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life. She began dedicating her life to writing and teaching about personal self-development in 2014.
Today, Jill is the proud mom of two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, and is delighted to be married to Scott Wisler. She’s had more than one last name along the way and now happily uses her middle name as her last. It’s pronounced loh-REE. In 2022, Scott joined her full time in their mission to spread the teachings of the Pathwork Guide far and wide.
