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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only way out is to stop resisting, and turn and face ourselves. The way to the other side is by entering the stream. That’s the healthy struggle. We must let our difficult emotions float freely to the surface so we can discover we have nothing to fear from them.