Hard & Fast Logic for Forging Ahead
Spiritual Laws: Hard & Fast Logic for Forging Ahead is a summary of the Pathwork Guide’s teachings regarding spiritual laws.
Just what are the laws that rule this precious land? Turns out, there are an infinite number of laws that govern everything that happens. And while Spiritual Laws does not claim to be comprehensive in covering them all, this sampling of teachings from the Pathwork Guide does a nice job of explaining how this sphere works.
Understanding this will help us grasp the truth that behind our trials, there is a method. That someone or something is behind life, working out a plan. So gather round and listen up. Because there are important guidelines we could all stand to know more about. And the hammer is about to drop.
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CONTENTS
1 Feelings
4 The Ego
5 Justice
9 Faults
10 Balance
12 Course-Correction
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14 Health
16 Mutuality
19 Power
21 Growing
24 Creating
27 Opposites
**12 Course-Correction
Over the long haul, whatever happens must be for the good, for that’s how divine laws have been constructed. Basically, when we zag in a direction that opposes God’s will and therefore spiritual laws, we will feel the pinch. And this will motivate us to zig back into line, to course-correct.
These are loving laws we’re talking about. They are designed to help us steer clear of making wrong choices using our own free will. For every single itty-bitty decision we make, and every attitude we choose or deed we do, is another chance to get right with God by setting ourselves straight with divine laws.
There is a spiritual law that says we will always be shown the easiest path forward, given the circumstances at hand. But note, the flipside of this means that the longer it takes us to chart a better course, the more difficult the way will become. We so often observe this in action when we get caught in some vicious Lower-Self habit. And the more caught we become, the harder it is to break free. The more we keep running from facing up to our inner misunderstandings, and the more we continue to resist changing, the bigger our hurdles become. This keeps going until our life challenges become so insurmountable they bring us to our knees. Eventually, our own unhappiness will lead us to want to make a change.
Keep in mind, we can always turn to God and ask for help in overcoming our obstacles. Perhaps we think God doesn’t care about us and that we shouldn’t burden God with our problems. But how crazy is that? After all, God created this sphere specifically so we could come here and learn to correct our inner errors. And this includes them all, great and small.
Actually, there is really no such thing as a big or little issue. For whatever is happening between us and a small handful of people is the exact same thing playing out on the world’s biggest stages. Some tiny issue in a domestic spat has the same impact—the same importance—as a big international quarrel. In fact, those so-called big issues couldn’t even exist if thousands of minor ones didn’t roll up into them.
In other words, our day-to-day struggles set the precedent for creating the mammoth situations we see playing out on a larger scale. The place to resolve such issues, then, starts by mindfully examining every distortion we discover in ourselves.
On Blaming: We deny the truth—including the truth that we are the ones who say No to life—and then blame others for our holding back. Then we deny the blaming. Every time we do this, we are in violation of the laws of life. For the laws of life aren’t just about truth, they’re about seeking out the causes for resistance, denial and blame where they really live—in us. On the Ego: The question remains: why does the ego work so hard to stay in control? There’s actually a lawful reason for this. For it is indeed hazardous for the ego to let go and fall into line with the deeper true self as long as the ego is still clinging to attitudes that aren’t compatible with the truth of divine laws. On Exhaustion: It’s a spiritual law that whatever energy we use for spiritual growth will be perpetually replenished. But when we let ourselves whirl in unending negative circles of completely unproductive currents, we’re going to run out of gas. On Paying the Price: There is a spiritual law that says there’s a price to be paid for everything. And what is that price? No self-pity, no self-delusion and no coddling of the little ego. The good stuff takes time, effort, patience and perseverance. Oh, and courage. So buckle up. On Skipping Steps: We can’t skip steps. If we want some result and we have a misunderstanding buried in us, we have to deal with this obstacle first. To find it, we can meditate on what needs to be altered inside us. And if we are not willing to correct what’s in error, the good results we want will never come. It can’t be otherwise. On Self-Responsibility: We live in fear “we’ll never get it” and consequently defend ourselves needlessly, further cutting ourselves off from the source of life that lives inside us. All the while, we go on ignoring how we create such a miserable state for ourselves. We do this because it suits us better to keep blaming others for our miserable lot in life, and waiting for a salvation that is never going to come. On Cheating Life: Honest to Pete, one of the many shortcomings of life is that there is no risk-proof plan. Nonetheless, we’re all hoping we can game the system, gaining the greatest advantages and not having to shoulder the load of what it takes to get them. And that right there is a violation of spiritual law. Because life cannot be cheated. On Perfectionism: When we don’t accept our current shortcomings and present-day imperfect self, we are in violation of spiritual law. And any time we are out of step with the laws of love and truth, we can’t sustain the powerful force of being happy. On Inner Misunderstandings: When we have a conscious cherished desire that’s contradicted by an unconscious inner misunderstanding, guess which one wins: the image trumps, every time. As a result, regardless what we say we want, our life situation is showing us—through our negative manifestations—where we have contradictory desires hidden from our awareness.
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