We’re so used to our fears, it’s like we’re a fish and they’re the water we’re swimming in. It doesn’t occur to us there could be life beyond our fears.
The Pathwork Guide teaches that beneath our fragmented thoughts, feelings, and actions lies a unified inner core—our true identity—where we are one with God. Accessing this center brings a profound, all-encompassing experience the Guide calls the “cosmic feeling,” a state beyond ordinary love where fear dissolves, clarity emerges, and life feels whole and deeply meaningful.
Reaching this state requires clearing the inner blocks that keep us divided. The Guide outlines four essential avenues. First, we must understand cause and effect, recognizing how our attitudes and intentions create our life experiences. This shifts us from victimhood into creative responsibility. Second, we must learn to feel all our feelings, including painful ones, allowing trapped energy to transform into vitality and joy.
Third, we cultivate positive intentionality—choosing to give to life rather than withhold from it—by uncovering and reversing hidden negativity. Finally, we practice meditation, quieting the mind to connect with the divine presence within.
This path is not about belief but experience. As we do this work, we gradually align with our inner truth, opening the way to a living connection with the divine essence already at our core.
Jill Loree is the founder of Phoenesse and a longtime student of the Pathwork teachings. She has studied the Pathwork Guide’s material since 1997 and completed four years of training to become a certified Pathwork Helper.
When she first encountered the Pathwork teachings, she described the experience as “walking through the doorway of an AA fourth step and finding the whole library.”
Through Phoenesse, Jill writes and teaches about personal transformation using the spiritual psychology found in the Pathwork lectures.
Her books present these teachings in clear, accessible language to help readers apply them in everyday life. Her work focuses on helping people move from the struggles of duality toward the peace of inner unity.
Raised in northern Wisconsin, Jill began her professional career in technical sales and marketing before discovering that her true calling lay in spiritual teaching and writing.
She lives in New York with her husband, Scott Wisler, who now works with her in sharing these teachings around the world.
