Spiritual essays
Spiritual essays
Essays about the spiritual nature of life
Where do we get stuck?
We each must do whatever developmental work is right for us, without skipping steps. But whichever stage we’re in, if we resist the forward movement, we’re going to get stuck. Consider, also, that we all roll up into a group of people who are at a certain level of development. And what’s right for any given group at any given time will become obsolete—even destructive—at a later point in time…The state emerging now is about working together as groups. This means our focus needs to shift from the individual to the whole.
How did we get so lost?
This spiritual path works from the outside in. It must. Because the outer layers of our psyche are what we have direct access to. For a moment, though, let’s look at this from the other end of the telescope. In other words, let’s look at how we’ve ended up fighting between ourselves, against ourselves and within ourselves. How did we get so lost?
Do we have to obey spiritual laws?
One could say that God is who created spiritual laws. But it would be more correct to say God is spiritual laws. They are kind and loving, letting us choose whether to follow them. More aptly, we get to choose how much pain we want to tolerate.
Is the truth hard to find?
You could say that the search for untruth—and more importantly, for how to correct it— is the whole point of incarnating. But how? Where do we even start? Believe it or not, the most logical place to search for the truth is to look for the untruth. We start by facing ourselves as we are right now. Where are we struggling? What in our life hurts? Where is there disharmony, conflict, unhappiness? For these are not random, unfortunate fates we can’t control. Rather, they are the natural results of untruth. And we only need to turn and face into our difficulties to realize this.
What do you hate?
Hate is a very empowering feeling. It lights us up. The fact that it is so energized makes it very hard to just let go of our hate. But hate is never aligned with the truth of who we are. Since, at our core, we all shine the most beautiful rays of love. And we feel much, much better when love is what lights our fire. So if our goal is to feel love, we must get to the bottom of our hate.
Cracking open the Pathwork Q&As
If you’ve ever read a Pathwork lecture, you know that most of them end with a handful of Q&As, or questions and answers. What you may not realize is there are 155 more transcripts of Q&As that few have read. The Q&As are sometimes about particular lectures, but more often, they are an array of questions about life. What’s most unique, perhaps, is the Pathwork Guide’s ability to answer the questions in a way that applies to us all. In short, the Q&As are designed to help everyone.
How to pray and meditate
The Pathwork Guide dedicated several lectures to the topic of prayer and meditation. In addition, lecture attendees asked many good questions about these two topics. Here are the Guide’s answers, in Jill Loree’s words, to various questions about how we should go about praying and meditating.
What’s your spiritual IQ? Take the quiz!
The spiritual path of Phoenesse is a two-stage path based on teachings from the Pathwork Guide. This spiritual quiz tests your knowledge of these spiritual teachings. Scroll down for answers.
Let’s come out of the dark: A short walk through the psyche
All darkness is nothing other than twisted rays of light that can, with effort, be restored to their original condition. Such transformation is, in fact, what life’s struggles are urging us to do.
I am sober 34 years, today
If we take advantage of the many gifts that recovery can offer—to be sure, it gives back far more than we give up—we can end up further ahead than if we hadn’t ever gotten lost in an addiction.
We need more awareness…of what, exactly?
These spiritual teachings from Phoenesse are showing us how to transform the parts of ourselves still lost in darkness. For only then can we learn to live fully from our inner light. To accomplish this, we must develop a deeper awareness of who we truly are.
We all build cases. Now what?
When we stay stuck within the confines of our limited ego—demanding we are right and insisting on always winning—we become lost in a prison of our own making.
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The Self. Care. series | SPILLING THE SCRIPT • HEALING THE HURT • DOING THE WORK
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