5 Intellect and will as tools or hindrances to self-realization
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5 Intellect and will as tools or hindrances to self-realization
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Hanging on for dear life won’t bring us to the doorstep of the real self. We simply cannot find ourselves that way.
An important difference between our superficial intellect and our Real Self is that we can direct, manipulate and govern the intellect using our will. We can’t do this with the Real Self. Of the two, the Real Self is the more intelligent one… We are so conditioned to focus on the use of our thinking ability and willpower that we believe we can become ourselves through an act of sheer will. We think we can use our minds to develop spiritually… It’s our Real Self that connects with the living spirit of a word, whereas unfeeling repetition comes from our intellect…
If we boil it down, what obstructs the Real Self are our layers of confusion and error. On top of these sits our lack of awareness about our confusion and errors… What intellect and will can be used for is cleaning up the errors and confusion that they themselves have created… When we know we are confused, we are closer to our Real Self than when we are blind to our inner confusion. This is true, even if we don’t have any solutions to our problems…
Trying to reach a higher state of being by using intellect and willpower causes us to construct images. These are essentially wrong conclusions about life. They are based on how we think we should be and how life should be, according to our limited past experiences… We can’t force ourselves to love. We might think we can, but in reality we can’t. Which doesn’t mean we don’t love…
So we can’t just make up our minds that we’re going to be good people who love and have compassion and humility. We can, however, make up our minds to figure out what’s causing us to not be like that… What we don’t realize is that if we were to see ourselves as we really are, we would see that there’s nothing to fear. We need to realize that hanging on for dear life won’t bring us to the doorstep of the Real Self. We simply cannot find ourselves that way…
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.
