Then the rst reaction is very often, “I do not
even want to acknowledge that I am afraid of this. I’d rather
continue busyi ng my mind in order not to face the terror that I am
nothing inside, that I am only a shell that needs sustenance from
without.”
This self-deception is obviously futile. It is of utmost importance
that you face this fear and deal with it openly. You need to create an
atmosphere within yourself in which you allow this emptiness to
exist. Otherwise you perpetually deceive yourself, which is very
wasteful because the fear is unjustied. How can you ever live inpeace with yourself if you do not know what you fear and therefore
make it impossible to nd out that what you fear is not so? As a result of a process that has continued for centuries, humanity
has conditioned itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so
that when that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is
confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise will
recede, and you must indeed embrace and welcome the emptiness
as the most important channel through which to receive your
innermost Godself. The Way Leads Through Seeming Contradictions
There are several psychic and spiritual laws you need to
comprehend in order to nurture this emptiness and make it a
creative venture. Some of these laws seem to be contradictory. Let
me put it this way: If you cannot let yourself be empty , you can
never be lled. Out of the emptiness a new fullness will arise, yet
you cannot disregard your fear. It must, like everythin g else, be
gone through. My advice is that you challenge that fear, and at the
same time welcome the emptiness as the doorway to your divinity. This seems contradictory, but it is not. Both attitudes are necessary. Another appar ent contradict ion: It is extremely important that
you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas,
impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very hard to explain in
human words. It is something you have to feel into. There must be a
positive expectancy that is yet free from preconceived notions of
how and what should happen. Still another related apparent contradiction: You need to be
specic, yet this specicity must be light and neutral. You must be
specic in one way, but not in another. If this seems confusing now,
ask your inner being to relay the comprehension to your mind,
rather than trying to understand directly with your ego-mind. The workings of the greater self so far surpass the mind’s
imagination that specicity would be a hindrance. Yet the mind
must know what it wants, be prepared for it, reach for it and claimit, know that it deserves what it wants and will not misuse it. The
outer mind must make const ant changes in order to adapt itself to
the greater scope of the inner God-consciousness. Your outer mind
must become empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised for
all possibilities . Thus it will be able to mate with the inner stillness
and what appears at rst as emptiness. A New Fullness Begins to Manifest
As you do this, in a spirit of patient, persevering, positive
expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can
manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From the
energetic point of view, it will convey light and warmth. Strength
you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point  of view of
consciousness, guidance will come for the biggest and smallest
issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with
an inner ear, and yet you must not do this with urgency but become
receptive to when and how you will be lled. This is the only way,
my friends, to nd your inner sustenance, to nd your divinity, and
become a receptacle for the great universal power that is being
released and will manifest in your life, even more than you have
already experienced. This is an important time in the history of evolution, and you are
all needed to comprehend and perpetuate a great change in thinking
and perception regarding the laws and values that the Christ
consciousness is spreading. The way must be open from within and
from without to create as many receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to this process. You all
know that your mind is limited only by your own concept of its
limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive
what is beyond it. The mind is nite and it must aim to spread the
boundaries of its niteness until it measures up with the innite that
is beyond the mind and that is within yourself, right here, right
now. Then the mind merges into the innite consciousne ss of yourinner universe, in which you are one with all that is, and yet
innitely your personal self. As it is now, you carry your mind with you almost as a burden
because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit  there is a
certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made
room for in your life as a result of your education and the mores of
your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to learn
and adopt as knowledge, both as part of the group consciousness
and as your personal experie nce. To the degree you have grown and
expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it
is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas
about yourself  and your world. It is therefore necessary, in order to
elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your
mind by questi oning yourself  about all the things that you think are
impossible for you. Where you are hopeless and frightened there
must be an idea of niteness that is simply locked into your mind;
thus you lock out the great power that is here for all those who are
ready to receive it honestly. Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind
Again we have an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, it is
necessary that this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and
possibilities, as you have already learned to do in your meditation. You have seen infallibly that where you have made room for a
desirable new possibility, it has indeed come into your life. You
have also seen that when it does not come into your life, you deny
that it can, for whatever reason. It is therefore necessary that you
begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately
dissolve it; you live with a mind and you need your mind. But
where you puncture your mind, the ow of new energy and
consciousness can penetrate. Where it is not punctured, you stay
locked within its narrow connes, which your spirit is fast
outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must rest, not holdopinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to the great new force
sweeping the inner universe of all consciousness. But let us return to the process of puncturing the limite d mind. How do you do that? First tell yourself that you do hold limited
beliefs, instead  of taking them for granted. The next step is to
challenge them. This requires  taking the trouble to walk through, in
the well-practiced attitude of self-observation and self-confrontation,
your limited beliefs and to truly think about them. Sometimes it is
not just that you have a false belief, and possibly a negative
intentionality in holding on to it, but you can also see that you keep
the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you
yearn for. Another law of great importance for this purpose is that the
opening to the greater universal consciousness must not be
approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed to eliminate the
growing and learning process . Now, this ultimate power is supposed
to ll and sustain you; however, your outer mind must go through
the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge is necessary. You all see
this in the arts and sciences. You cannot be inspired as a great artist,
no matter how much genius you have, unless you learn the craft and
the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the
channel to the greater unive rse in order to avoid the initial tedium
of learning and becoming, the channel will remain closed. For this
amounts to cheating, and God cannot be cheated. When you cheat,
the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything
beyond the mind exists, because no inspirational response comes
forth when using “magic”  to coddle your laziness and self-
indulgence. The same is true of science or any other eld. Now how about this same law with respect to inspiration for your
personal life and decisions? Here, too, you must not fail to go
through the work that the outer ego-self has to do in order to
become a proper channel for the God-consciousness. You do this in
pathwork. You need to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your
lower self, where you are corruptible, where you are dishonest or
tend to be. As you all know , this is hard work, but it needs to be
done. If you avoid it, the channel will never really be reliable andmay contain a lot of wishful  thinking, stemming from your “desire
nature,” or it may reveal “truth” that is based on guilt and fear and
is thus equally unreliable. Only when you work in this fashion on your development will
you come to a point when you no longer confuse gullibility and
wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with discrimination. As a great
pianist can be a channel for higher inspiration only when he goes
through the nger exercises and the hours of practice that make his
playing nally  eortless, so must God-inspired people work on their
purication process, on deep self-knowledge and self-hon esty. Only
then does the receptacle become commensurate with higher truths
and values, t to be inuen ced and used for higher purposes to
enrich the world and the self. At the same time you need to cultivate a neutrality. Your devotion
to fullling the will of God must include an attitude that whatever
comes from God is all right, whether you desire it or not. Too much
desire is as much a hindrance as the absence of all desire, which
manifests as resignation and hopelessness. The refusal to endure any
kind of frustration creates an inner tension and defensive structure
that close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other  words , you, as a receptacle, need to be neutral. You need to
give up the strong, tight, selfwilled yes or no to make way for a
exible trust guided by your inner God. You need to be willing,
pliable, exibl e, trusting, and forever ready for another change you
had not contemplated. What is right now may not be right
tomorrow. There is no xedness when it comes to the divine life that springs
from within your innermost being. This idea makes you insecure, for
you believe that security lies in xed rules. Nothing could  be further
from the truth. This is one of those beliefs that need to be
challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting every new
situation by being inspired anew, there lies a new land of security
that you have not found as yet. What is right in one situation may
not be right in another. This is one of those laws of the new age that
is opposed to the old “stable” laws according to which what is xed
and unchangeable is secure.The laws that pertain to this new venture into your inner
creativity and life need to be studied very carefully; you must work
with them. These are not just words to listen to; you need to make
them your own. These laws are apparently full of contradiction. You
need to acquire knowledge, the mind must be expanded, it must be
able to conceive of truthful  possibilities, and yet you must make
your mind neutral and empty. This seems contradictory  from the
point of view of the dualisti c consciousness, but from the point of
view of the new consciousness that is spreading through your inner
universe, these  are not contra dictions at all. For years I have tried to
show you in many areas how this principle works: Someth ing that is
in truth  and commensurate with the higher laws of life conciliates
opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level of
consciousness. What is conict-producing on the lower level is
mutually helpful and interactive on the higher level. Making Your Mind an Instrument of Unication
More and more you will discover the truth of unication, where
dualities cease to exist and contradictions no longer contradict;
where you experience two previous opposites as valid aspects of the
same truth. When you begin to comprehend this principle and apply
it to your own life, your outlook and values, then you are indeed
ready to receive the new consciousness released in realms far
beyond your own. When I say that you must not approach your divine channel with
the attitude that it should save you the work of living and growing, I
am not contradicting the necessity of being passively receptive. It is
simply a shift of balance: Where you have been overactive with your
mind, you now need to quiet down and let things happen; where
you insisted on taking the controls, you must now relinquish them
and let a new inner power take over. On the other hand, where you
before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line
of least resistance and therefore made yourself dependent on others,
you now need to take over and actively nurture the principles thathelp to establi sh the channels to your inner God. You also need to
actively express its messages in life. Thus, activity and passivity
need to be reversed. Your mind will thus become an instrument . It will open up, puncture
its limitations, and acquire new concepts—lightly, not tightly—with
which to “play around” for a while. This attitude of lightness in
your perceptions, of exibility, of motility of mind, will make you
the most receptive to your apparent emptiness. Now, my friends, as we approach this emptiness, how does it feel? What is it all about? Again, the human language is extremely
limited, and it is almost impossible to squeeze this kind of
experience into the context of language. I will try my very best to
give you some tools, however. As you listen into your inner “chasm,” it seems at rst to be a
black gulf of emptiness. What you feel at this point is fear. This fear
seems to ll you up. What is this fear? It is as much a fear of nding
yourself to indeed be empty as of nding yourself with a new
consciousness, with a new being evolving within you. Although you
yearn for this, you also fear it. The fear exists in both possibilities:
You want the new consciousness so much that you fear
disappointment, and yet you also fear nding this consciousness
because of all the obligations  and changes that this might  impose on
you. You must travel through both these fears. On this path you
have received the tools to deal with such fears by questi oning your
lower self. Going Into the Emptiness
But the time comes when you are ready, notwithstanding the fear,
because you have already made the connections. You know, for
example, what  your lower self wants and why you have negative
intentions. The time comes when, in spite of the fear, you decided
calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness. So you empty your
mind in order to meet the emptiness deep within. Lo and behold,
very soon that very emptiness will feel, not full the same way youare used to, but it will contain a new aliveness that the old articial
fullness of your mind made impossible. In fact, you will soon nd
out that you made yourself articially dull by packing yourself tight:
tight in the mind because of its noise, and tight within your channel
by contracting your energy into hard knots of defense. You had
killed your aliveness with this articial fullness. So you became
needier becaus e without your inner life you could not be fullled in
a real sense. A vicious circle was established as you strove to get
fulllment from outside, since you refused to go through the
necessary steps to make fulllment rst manifest within. In one sense you fear the aliveness more than the emptiness. And
perhaps you had better face that. When you make yourself
suciently empty, the rst initial response is an inner aliveness, and
you tend to immediately shut the lid tight again. Yet by denying
your fear you also deny that you are really very unhappy about your
lack of aliveness. But lack of aliveness comes from fearing it. You
can make the fear give way to aliveness by letting yourself be
creatively empty. The Actual Experience
You will experience your whole inner being, including your body
and your energy, as a vibrantly alive “inner tube.” Energy goes
through it, feelings go through it, and something else is vibrantly
coming to the fore that you cannot as yet name. If you do not shy
away from that unnameable something, it will sooner or later turn
out to be constant inner instruction: truth, encouragement, wisdom,
guidance, specically destined to your life right now, wherever you
need it most. That emptines s, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God
talking to you. At any moment of the day it is talking to you where
you need it most. If you really wish to attune to it and hear it, you
will discern it, rst vaguely, later strongly. You need to condition
your inner ear to recognize it. As you begin to recognize the vibrant
voice that speaks in wisdom and love—not in generalities, but
specically to you—you will know that this voice has always existedin you, but you have conditioned yourself not to hear it. And in that
conditioning you have tightened and packed up that “inner tube”
that will ll you with the vibrant music of the angels. When I say the “music of the angels,” I do not necessari ly mean
this literally, although that, too, may exist. But what you need more
is the guidance  for every decision about what opinion or attitude to
adopt in a given situation. That instruction is truly comparable to
the music of the angels in its glory. This fullness cannot be described
in its wonder;  it is a treasure beyond all words. It is what you
constantly look and yearn for, but most of the time you are not
aware of this searching and project it on substitute fulllments that
you expect to come from outside. Refocus on what has always existed within you. Your mind and
outer will have confused and complicated your life, so this new
contact is like nding your way out of a maze—a maze you have
created. You can now recre ate your inner landscape without that
maze. The New Person as the Receptacle of the Universal
Intelligence
Now, my dearest friends, I would like to say a few words about
the new person in the new era. What is the new person ? The new
person is indeed always a receptacle of the universal intelligence,
the divine consciousness, the Christ consciousness, that permeates
every particle of being and of life. The new person is not functioning
from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to
be cultivated to fulll its role as an important stepping stone in
humanity’s evolution. By now, the overemphasis has gone on too
long. This does not mean you should revert to the purely blind,
emotional “desire-nature,” rather, it means you should open up to a
higher realm of consciousness within you and let it unfold. There was a period in evolution when it was as hard for people to
nd their ability to think, to weigh, to discriminate, to retainknowledge, to remember, in short, to use all the faculties of the
mind, as it now seems hard to nd contact with the highe r self. The
new person has established a new balance in the inner system. The
intellect must not be left out; it is an instrument that must serve,
become unied with the greater consciousness. For many ages
people believed that the intellectual faculties were the highest form
of development, and some still believe this now. So they make no
attempt to journey further and deeper into their inner nature to nd
greater treasures. On the other hand, there are many spiritual
movements that practice discarding and inactivating the mind
altogether. This is equally undesirable because it creates splits
rather than unication. The Function of the Intellect in the New Person
Both these extremes are half-truths, though they can have relative
validity. For example, in the past, people were like beasts,
undisciplined and irresponsible as far as their immediate desires
were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires,
regardless of ethics and mora lity. So for that stage the development
of the intellect fullled its function. And the intellect also fullled
its function as a very sharp tool of learning, of discrimin ating. But
when it ends there it becom es futile. People become pitiful when
they cannot become animate d by their divinity. By the same token,
the practice of leaving the mind temporarily inactive is advisable,
and I recomme nd it myself. But to treat the mind as if it were the
devil and to oust it from your life is missing the point. In either extreme, people lack something; they need all their
functions in working order to express their divinity. Without a mind,
you become a passive amoeba; when the mind is deemed the
highest faculty, you become  a hyperactive robot. The mind then
becomes a computerized machine. True aliveness exists only when
you wed the mind with the spirit and allow the mind to express the
feminine principle for a while. Until now the mind has been very
much linked with the masculine principle: action, drive, control.Now the mind has to expre ss the feminine principle: receptivity. This does not mean that you will become passive. In a sense, you
will be more active, more truly independent than you were before. For when the mind receives inspirations from the God-
consciousness, they must be put into action. But this putting into
action is harmonious, eortle ss, not like a cramp. When your mind
is receptive, it can be lled with the higher spirit within you. Then
the functioning becomes totally dierent, forever new and exciting. Nothing becomes routinized, nothing becomes stale, nothing
becomes redun dant. For the spirit is forever alive and changing. This is the energy and experience you have increasing ly in your
community, where the new inux is working so strongly. The new person makes all decisions from this new consc iousness
after working his or her way through to becoming truly receptive to
the spiritual being within. The results would sound utopian for
someone who has not begun  to experience this. I am happy to say
that quite a number of you are already part of this strong cosmic
movement for which you have made yourself available. You
experience hitherto undreamed-of expansion and joy, resolutions of
problems that you never thought possible. And it continues. There
are no limitations to your fulllment, to the peace, to the
productivity, to the creativity of living, to joy, love, and happiness,
and to the meaning your life has acquired as you serve a greater
cause. Entering the New, Greater Life
The time has passed for each individual to live only for a selsh,
immediate little life. This can no longer continue. Those who insist
on this way lock themselves out from a power that would turn
destructive in a mind that is still geared to selshness . For that
selshness comes from the false belief that you are happy only when
you are selsh, and unhapp y when you are unselsh. That false
belief is one of the rst myths you need to explore and challenge.You are creating a new life for yourself and your environment, of
a kind that humanity has not yet known. You are preparing for it,
others are preparing for it, here and there, all over the world,
quietly. These are golden nuclei that spring up out of the gray, dark
matter of untruthful thinking  and living. So further that channel in
you. It will bring you the excitement and the peace you always
wanted. Enter this new phase, my dearest friends, with courage and
armation. Rise up and become who you truly are, and experience
life at its best. All of you are blessed, my very dearest ones. The blessings will
give you the sustenance you need to go all the way with all of
yourself and become enlivened, activated, actualized by the God
within. Be in peace. OceanofPDF.comThe Voice Within: A Meditation from the Guide
 … If you make yourself still and listen into your inner self, you will
hear its voice. It will say, with variations:
I am the ever-loving God , 
the ever-present Creator  
living within you  
moving through you  
expressing as you in myriad forms — 
as you, and you, and you — 
as the animals  
as the trees and the sky and the rmament  
as everything that exists . I shall dwell in you  
and if you allow Me to act through you  
to be known through your brain  
to be felt through your feelings  
you will experience My power that is limitless . You will not fear this power  
that manifests on all levels . The power is great, but give in to Me . Give in to this power  
to this stream that surges forth , 
that will make you cry  
and that will make you laugh  
both in joy .For you are Me and I am you . I cannot act on this level  
without your being an instrumentality for Me . And if you listen to Me , 
I will guide you through every step of the way . Whenever you are in darkness , 
you are away from Me . And if you remember this , 
you will make steps to come back to Me . I am not far away . I am right here, in every particle of your own being . If you thus fulll My will , 
you and I become more one , 
and I can fulll your will . OceanofPDF.comBackground: The Guide, Eva, and the
Pathwork Foundation
The Guide never identied himself by name. He maintained that
his identity was not important, that no matter what he said, we
would not be able to verify that identity anyway. All that we should
be concerned with were his teachings. Even those we should not
believe merely because they come from a spirit entity. We should
consult our hearts, and only if we nd an echo inside that arms
their truth should we accept his words. Eva Pierrakos was born in Vienna in 1915, daughter of the well-
known novelist Jakob Wassermann. She grew up among the
intellectual elite of Vienna; her rst husband was the son of another
famous writer, Hermann Broch. A bright, outgoing young woman,
Eva loved to dance and ski; she later became a dance instructor. The
last thing she would have imagined was to be chosen to serve as an
instrument for spiritual communication. Eva managed to leave Austria before the Nazi takeover. She
received a United States visa and moved to New York. It was,
however, in Switzerland, where she lived for a while , that her
psychic talent began rst to manifest in the form of automatic
writing. By meditating for long hours, changing her diet, and
making the commitment to use her gift only for helping people—
even taking the risk of losing her friends, who thought she was
losing her wits—she eventually succeeded in becoming a pure
channel so that a spirit entity of high wisdom like the Guide was
able to manifest through her and oer us the gift of his teachings. When Eva moved back to the United States, a small group  formed
around her. She gave indiv idual “Guide sessions,” and twice amonth a lecture or a question-and-answer session. She was a dark-haired, small woman with luminous dark eyes and
a dancer’s body. Usually sun-tanned, she was very healthy-looking,
and had a wonderful capacity for enjoying herself. When John
Pierrakos, a psychiatrist working in the Reiehian tradition, and co-
founder of bioenergetics, met her, both his work and Eva’s became
enriched. Their marriage, in addition to bringing personal
happiness, helped John to transform his practice of bioenergetics
into core energetics by incorporating into it the Guide’s teachings. In turn, the introduction of the energetic element into the practice
of the Pathwork process contributed to its eectiveness. More and more people were drawn to the teachings of the Guide,
and a home for the Pathwork was found in one of the secluded
valleys in the Catskills, where deep transformation work can be
done in the beauty and stillness of nature. In 1972, the Pathwork
was incorporated as a not-for-prot educational foundation. Eva died in 1979, leaving  us a rich heritage of channeled
material. In addition to the 258 lectures delineating the Pathwork,
there are hundreds of recorded question-and-answer sessions and
private consultations with the Guide. By now tens of thousands  have read the lectures—they are
available individually—and  thousands of people have been
following this path, though the Pathwork has not sought wide
publicity. There are a number of very active Pathwork Centers in
North and South America and Europe, and a network of many
groups which study and work with the Guide lectures around the
globe. We welcome the opportunity to support you in connecting with
others who are interested in exploring this material further. For
more information please contact the following regional centers:
California & Southwest:  
Pathwork of California, Inc.  
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OceanofPDF.comList of Pathwork Lectures *
1. The Sea of Life
2. Decisions and Tests
3. Choosing Your Destiny
4. World Weariness
5. Happiness as a Link in the Chain of Life
6. God as Father-Image—Negative Attachment to Matter
7. Asking for Help and Helping Others
8. Mediumship
9. The Lord’s Prayer
10. Male and Female Incarnations: Their Rhythms and Causes
11. Know Yourself
12. The Order and Diversity of the Spiritual Worlds—The Process of
Reincarnation
13. Positive Thinking
14. The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask
15. Inuence Between the Spiritual and the Material Worlds
16. Spiritual Nourishment
17. The Call
18. Free Will
19. Jesus Christ
20. The Communication of Spiritual Truth to Humanity—God and
the Creation21. The Fall
22. Salvation
25. Fundamentals of the Pathwork—Purication Through Self-
Knowledge
26. Finding One’s Faults
27. Escape Also Possible on the Path
28. Communication with God—Daily Review
29. Activity and Passivity—Finding God’s Will Through the Right
Use of Inner and Outer Will
30. Selfwill, Pride, and Fear
31. Shame
32. Decision-Making
33. Occupation with Self
34. Preparation for Reincarnation
35. Turning to God
36. Prayer
37. Acceptance—Dignity in Humility
38. Images: Erroneous Assumptions About Life and Self
39. Image-Finding
40. More on Images
41. Images: The Damage They Do
42. Objectivity and Subjectivity
43. Three Basic Personality Types: Reason, Will, Emotion
44. The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex
45. Conscious and Unconscious Desires
46. Authority
47. The Wall Within
48. The Life Force
49. Guilt: Justied and Unjustied—Obstacles on the Path50. The Great Vicious Circle of Immature Love
51. Independent Opinions
52. The God-Image
53. Self-Love
55. Three Cosmic Principles: The Expanding, the Restricting, and
the Static
56. Healthy and Unhealthy Motives in Desire
57. The Mass Image of Self-Importance
58. Desire for Happiness and Unhappiness
60. The Abyss of Illusion—Freedom and Self-Responsibility
62. Man and Woman
64. Outer Will and Inner Will
66. Shame of the Higher Self
68. Suppression of Creative Tendencies—Thought Processes
69. The Valid Desire to Be Loved
71. Reality and Illusion
72. The Fear of Loving
73. Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts
74. Confusions
75. The Great Transition in Human Development: From Isolation to
Union
77. Self-Condence: Its True Origin and What Prohibits It
80. Cooperation, Communication, and Union
81. Conicts in the World of Duality
82. Conquest of Duality Symbolized by the Life and Death of Jesus
83. The Idealized Self-Image
84. Love, Power, and Serenity as Distorted by the Idealized Self-
Image
85. Self-Preservation and Procreation86. The Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation in Conict
88. True and False Religion
89. Emotional Growth and Its Function
90. Moralizing—Disproportionate Reactions—Needs
92. Relinquishing Blind Needs
93. Main Image—Needs and Defenses
94. Split Concepts Create Confusion—Neurosis and Sin
95. Self Alienation—The Way Back to the Real Self
96. Laziness, Symptom of Self-Alienation
97. Perfectionism Obstructs Happiness—Manipulation of Emotions
98. Wishful Daydreams
99. Falsied Impressions of Parents: Cause and Cure
100. Meeting the Pain of Destructive Patterns
101. The Defense
102. The Seven Cardinal Sins
103. Harm of Too Much Love-Giving—Constructive and Destructive
Will
104. Intellect and Will as Tools or Obstacles to Self-Realization
105. Humanity’s Relationship to God in Various Stages of
Development
106. Sadness versus Depression—Relationship
107. Three Aspects That Prevent Loving
108. Fundamental Guilt for Not Loving—Obligations
109. Spiritual and Emotional Health Through Restitution for Real
Guilt
110. Hope and Faith
111. Soul Substance—Coping with Demands
112. Humanity’s Relationship to Time
113. Identication with the Self114. Struggle: Healthy and Unhealthy
115. Perception, Determination, Love as Aspects of Consciousness
116. The Superimposed Conscience
117. Shame and Unresolved Problems
118. Duality Through Illusion—Transference
119. Movement, Consciousness, Experience: Pleasure, the Essence of
Life
120. The Individual and Humanity
121. Displacement, Substitution, Superimposition
122. Self-Fulllment through Self-Realization as Man or Woman
123. Overcoming Fear of the Unknown
124. The Language of the Unconscious
125. Transition from the No-Current to the Yes-Current
126. Contact with the Life Force
127. Evolution’s Four Stages: Reex, Awareness, Understanding, and
Knowing
128. Limitations Created Through Illusory Alternatives
129. Winner versus Loser
130. Abundance versus Acceptance
131. Expression and Impression
132. The Function of the Ego in Relation to the Real Self
133. Love as Spontaneous Soul Movement
134. The Concept of Evil
135. Mobility in Relaxation—Suering Through Attachment of the
Life Force to Negative Situations
136. The Illusory Fear of Self
137. Inner and Outer Control—Love and Freedom
138. Desire for and Fear of Closeness139. Deadening of the Live Center Through Misinterpretation of
Reality
140. The Conict of Positive and Negative Pleasure as the Origin of
Pain
141. Return to the Original Level of Perfection
142. Fear of Releasing the Little Ego: Positive and Negative
Magnetic Fields
143. Unity and Duality
144. The Process of Growing from Duality to Unity
145. Responding to the Call of Life
146. Positive Concept of Life—Love Without Fear—Balance Between
Activity and Passivity
147. The Nature of Life and the Nature of the Human Being
148. Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current
149. Cosmic Pull toward Union—Frustration
150. Self-Love as Condition of Universal State of Bliss
151. Intensity, an Obstacle to Self-Realization
152. Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power
153. The Self-Regulating Nature of Involuntary Processes
154. Pulsation of Consciousness
155. Giving and Receiving
157. Innite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional
Dependency
158. The Ego’s Cooperation with or Obstruction of the Real Self
159. Life Manifestation as Dualistic Illusion
160. Conciliation of the Inner Split
161. Unconscious Negativity Obstructs Surrender of the Ego to
Involuntary Processes
162. Three Levels of Reality for Inner Guidance
163. Mind Activity and Mind Receptivity164. Further Aspects of Polarity—Selshness
165. Evolutionary Phases of Feeling, Reason, and Will
166. Perceiving, Reacting, Expressing
167. Frozen Life Center Becomes Alive
168. Two Basic Ways of Life, Toward and Away from the Center
169. The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
170. Fear of Bliss versus Longing for It
171. The Law of Personal Responsibility
172. The Life Energy Centers
173. Practices to Open the Energy Centers
174. Self-Esteem
175. Consciousness: Fascination with Creation
176. Overcoming Negativity
177. Pleasure, the Full Pulsation of Life
178. The Universal Principle of Growth Dynamics
179. Chain Reactions in the Dynamics of Life
180. The Spiritual Signicance of Relationship
181. The Human Struggle: Self-Division
182. Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self, Higher Self
183. The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis
184. The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence
185. Mutuality, A Cosmic Principle and Law
186. Venture in Mutuality: Healing Force to Change Negative Inner
Will
187. Alternation of Expanding and Contracting States
188. Aecting and Being Aected
189. Self-Identication Determined Through Stages of Consciousness
190. Experiencing All Feelings Including Fear
191. Inner and Outer Experience192. Real and False Needs
193. Resume of the Basic Principles of the Pathwork: Its Aim and
Process
194. Meditation as Positive Life-Creation
195. Identication with the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative
Intentionality
196. Commitment: Cause and Eect
197. Energy and Consciousness in Distortion: Evil
198. Transition to Positive Intentionality
199. The Meaning of the Ego and Its Transcendence
200. The Cosmic Feeling
201. Demagnetizing Negative Force Fields—Pain of Guilt
202. Psychic Interaction of Negativity
203. Interpenetration of the Divine Spark into the Outer Regions—
Exercises in Movement
204. What Is the Path? 205. Order as a Universal Principle
206. Desire: Creative or Destructive
207. The Spiritual Signicance of Sexuality
208. The Innate Capacity to Create
209. The Roscoe Lecture: Inspiration for the Pathwork Center
210. Visualization Process for Growth into the Unitive State
211. Outer Events Reect Self-Creation—Three Stages
212. Claiming the Total Capacity for Greatness
213. Let Go, Let God
214. Psychic Nuclear Points
215. The Now Point
216. Relationship of the Incarnatory Process to the Life Task
217. The Phenomenon of Consciousness218. The Evolutionary Process
219. The Christmas Message—Message to the Children
220. Reawakening from Anesthesia Through Listening to the Inner
Voice
221. Faith and Doubt in Truth and Distortion
222. Transformation of the Lower Self
223. The Era of the New Age and New Consciousness
224. Creative Emptiness
225. Evolution of Individual and Group Consciousness
226. Self-Forgiveness without Condoning the Lower Self
227. Change from Outer to Inner Laws in the New Age
228. Balance
229. Woman and Man in the New Age
229A. The Arosa Lecture—March 1975
230. Change: Reincarnation in the Same Life Span
231. New Age Education
232. Being Values versus Appearance Values
233. The Power of the Word
234. Perfection, Immortality, Omnipotence
235. The Anatomy of Contraction
236. The Superstition of Pessimism
237. Leadership—The Art of Transcending Frustration
238. The Pulse of Life on All Levels of Manifestation
239. Christmas Lecture 1975 and a Wedding Message
240. Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom
241. Dynamics of Movement and Resistance to Its Nature
242. The Spiritual Meaning of Political Systems
243. The Great Existential Fear and Longing
244. “Be in the World but Not of the World”—The Evil of Inertia245. Cause and Eect
246. Tradition: Divine and Distorted Aspects
247. The Mass Images of Judaism and Christianity
248. Three Principles of Evil
249. Pain of Injustice
250. Exposing the Decit—Faith in Divine Grace
251. New Age Marriage
252. Secrecy and Privacy
253. Continue Your Struggle and Cease All Struggle
254. Surrender
255. The Birthing Process—The Cosmic Pulse
256. Inner Space, Focused Emptiness
257. Aspects of the New Divine Inux: Communication, Group
Consciousness, Exposure
258. Personal Contact with Jesus Christ
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The Pathwork Foundation wishes to thank the enthusiastic team
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grew up in Vienna during the political unrest of the post-World War
I years, while the darkness that was about to descend and culminate
in World War II was gather ing over Europe. However, Eva loved
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friendship. She was able to leave Austria and lived for a while in
Switzerland before settling down in New York. During this time she
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the series of lectures from which this volume was compil ed. Hers is
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astonishment at the manifestation of the gift, then reluctance to
accepting it, nally, humbly taking on the task with total
commitment. Quietly, she drew to herself an ever-growing number
of people who became attracted to the path of self-tran sformation
taught by the Guide. From  the materials of these lectures Eva
Pierrakos developed The Pathwork , a psychological method which
leads to the Godself through facing and transforming the lower self. Eva died in 1979, leaving behind her the rich legacy of 258 Guide
lectures, two ourishing Pathwork centers, and thousands of
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        Then the rst reaction is very often, “I do not
even want to acknowledge that I am afraid of this. I’d rather
continue busyi ng my mind in order not to face the terror that I am
nothing inside, that I am only a shell that needs sustenance from
without. ”
This self-deception is obviously futile. It is of utmost importance
that you face this fear and deal with it openly. You need to create an
atmosphere within yourself in which you allow this emptiness to
exist. Otherwise you perpetually deceive yourself, which is very
wasteful because the fear is unjustied. How can you ever live inpeace with yourself if you do not know what you fear and therefore
make it impossible to nd out that what you fear is not so. As a result of a process that has continued for centuries, humanity
has conditioned itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so
that when that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is
confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise will
recede, and you must indeed embrace and welcome the emptiness
as the most important channel through which to receive your
innermost Godself. The Way Leads Through Seeming Contradictions
There are several psychic and spiritual laws you need to
comprehend in order to nurture this emptiness and make it a
creative venture. Some of these laws seem to be contradictory. Let
me put it this way: If you cannot let yourself be empty, you can
never be lled. Out of the emptiness a new fullness will arise, yet
you cannot disregard your fear. It must, like everythin g else, be
gone through. My advice is that you challenge that fear, and at the
same time welcome the emptiness as the doorway to your divinity. This seems contradictory, but it is not. Both attitudes are necessary. Another appar ent contradict ion: It is extremely important that
you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas,
impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very hard to explain in
human words. It is something you have to feel into. There must be a
positive expectancy that is yet free from preconceived notions of
how and what should happen. Still another related apparent contradiction: You need to be
specic, yet this specicity must be light and neutral. You must be
specic in one way, but not in another. If this seems confusing now,
ask your inner being to relay the comprehension to your mind,
rather than trying to understand directly with your ego-mind. The workings of the greater self so far surpass the mind’s
imagination that specicity would be a hindrance. Yet the mind
must know what it wants, be prepared for it, reach for it and claimit, know that it deserves what it wants and will not misuse it. The
outer mind must make const ant changes in order to adapt itself to
the greater scope of the inner God-consciousness. Your outer mind
must become empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised for
all possibilities. Thus it will be able to mate with the inner stillness
and what appears at rst as emptiness. A New Fullness Begins to Manifest
As you do this, in a spirit of patient, persevering, positive
expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can
manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From the
energetic point of view, it will convey light and warmth. Strength
you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point  of view of
consciousness, guidance will come for the biggest and smallest
issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with
an inner ear, and yet you must not do this with urgency but become
receptive to when and how you will be lled. This is the only way,
my friends, to nd your inner sustenance, to nd your divinity, and
become a receptacle for the great universal power that is being
released and will manifest in your life, even more than you have
already experienced. This is an important time in the history of evolution, and you are
all needed to comprehend and perpetuate a great change in thinking
and perception regarding the laws and values that the Christ
consciousness is spreading. The way must be open from within and
from without to create as many receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to this process. You all
know that your mind is limited only by your own concept of its
limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive
what is beyond it. The mind is nite and it must aim to spread the
boundaries of its niteness until it measures up with the innite that
is beyond the mind and that is within yourself, right here, right
now. Then the mind merges into the innite consciousne ss of yourinner universe, in which you are one with all that is, and yet
innitely your personal self. As it is now, you carry your mind with you almost as a burden
because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit  there is a
certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made
room for in your life as a result of your education and the mores of
your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to learn
and adopt as knowledge, both as part of the group consciousness
and as your personal experie nce. To the degree you have grown and
expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it
is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas
about yourself  and your world. It is therefore necessary, in order to
elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your
mind by questi oning yourself  about all the things that you think are
impossible for you. Where you are hopeless and frightened there
must be an idea of niteness that is simply locked into your mind;
thus you lock out the great power that is here for all those who are
ready to receive it honestly. Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind
Again we have an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, it is
necessary that this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and
possibilities, as you have already learned to do in your meditation. You have seen infallibly that where you have made room for a
desirable new possibility, it has indeed come into your life. You
have also seen that when it does not come into your life, you deny
that it can, for whatever reason. It is therefore necessary that you
begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately
dissolve it; you live with a mind and you need your mind. But
where you puncture your mind, the ow of new energy and
consciousness can penetrate. Where it is not punctured, you stay
locked within its narrow connes, which your spirit is fast
outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must rest, not holdopinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to the great new force
sweeping the inner universe of all consciousness. But let us return to the process of puncturing the limite d mind. How do you do that. First tell yourself that you do hold limited
beliefs, instead  of taking them for granted. The next step is to
challenge them. This requires  taking the trouble to walk through, in
the well-practiced attitude of self-observation and self-confrontation,
your limited beliefs and to truly think about them. Sometimes it is
not just that you have a false belief, and possibly a negative
intentionality in holding on to it, but you can also see that you keep
the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you
yearn for. Another law of great importance for this purpose is that the
opening to the greater universal consciousness must not be
approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed to eliminate the
growing and learning process. Now, this ultimate power is supposed
to ll and sustain you; however, your outer mind must go through
the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge is necessary. You all see
this in the arts and sciences. You cannot be inspired as a great artist,
no matter how much genius you have, unless you learn the craft and
the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the
channel to the greater unive rse in order to avoid the initial tedium
of learning and becoming, the channel will remain closed. For this
amounts to cheating, and God cannot be cheated. When you cheat,
the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything
beyond the mind exists, because no inspirational response comes
forth when using “magic”  to coddle your laziness and self-
indulgence. The same is true of science or any other eld. Now how about this same law with respect to inspiration for your
personal life and decisions. Here, too, you must not fail to go
through the work that the outer ego-self has to do in order to
become a proper channel for the God-consciousness. You do this in
pathwork. You need to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your
lower self, where you are corruptible, where you are dishonest or
tend to be. As you all know, this is hard work, but it needs to be
done. If you avoid it, the channel will never really be reliable andmay contain a lot of wishful  thinking, stemming from your “desire
nature,” or it may reveal “truth” that is based on guilt and fear and
is thus equally unreliable. Only when you work in this fashion on your development will
you come to a point when you no longer confuse gullibility and
wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with discrimination. As a great
pianist can be a channel for higher inspiration only when he goes
through the nger exercises and the hours of practice that make his
playing nally  eortless, so must God-inspired people work on their
purication process, on deep self-knowledge and self-hon esty. Only
then does the receptacle become commensurate with higher truths
and values, t to be inuen ced and used for higher purposes to
enrich the world and the self. At the same time you need to cultivate a neutrality. Your devotion
to fullling the will of God must include an attitude that whatever
comes from God is all right, whether you desire it or not. Too much
desire is as much a hindrance as the absence of all desire, which
manifests as resignation and hopelessness. The refusal to endure any
kind of frustration creates an inner tension and defensive structure
that close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other  words, you, as a receptacle, need to be neutral. You need to
give up the strong, tight, selfwilled yes or no to make way for a
exible trust guided by your inner God. You need to be willing,
pliable, exibl e, trusting, and forever ready for another change you
had not contemplated. What is right now may not be right
tomorrow. There is no xedness when it comes to the divine life that springs
from within your innermost being. This idea makes you insecure, for
you believe that security lies in xed rules. Nothing could  be further
from the truth. This is one of those beliefs that need to be
challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting every new
situation by being inspired anew, there lies a new land of security
that you have not found as yet. What is right in one situation may
not be right in another. This is one of those laws of the new age that
is opposed to the old “stable” laws according to which what is xed
and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain to this new venture into your inner
creativity and life need to be studied very carefully; you must work
with them. These are not just words to listen to; you need to make
them your own. These laws are apparently full of contradiction. You
need to acquire knowledge, the mind must be expanded, it must be
able to conceive of truthful  possibilities, and yet you must make
your mind neutral and empty. This seems contradictory  from the
point of view of the dualisti c consciousness, but from the point of
view of the new consciousness that is spreading through your inner
universe, these  are not contra dictions at all. For years I have tried to
show you in many areas how this principle works: Someth ing that is
in truth  and commensurate with the higher laws of life conciliates
opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level of
consciousness. What is conict-producing on the lower level is
mutually helpful and interactive on the higher level. Making Your Mind an Instrument of Unication
More and more you will discover the truth of unication, where
dualities cease to exist and contradictions no longer contradict;
where you experience two previous opposites as valid aspects of the
same truth. When you begin to comprehend this principle and apply
it to your own life, your outlook and values, then you are indeed
ready to receive the new consciousness released in realms far
beyond your own. When I say that you must not approach your divine channel with
the attitude that it should save you the work of living and growing, I
am not contradicting the necessity of being passively receptive. It is
simply a shift of balance: Where you have been overactive with your
mind, you now need to quiet down and let things happen; where
you insisted on taking the controls, you must now relinquish them
and let a new inner power take over. On the other hand, where you
before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line
of least resistance and therefore made yourself dependent on others,
you now need to take over and actively nurture the principles thathelp to establi sh the channels to your inner God. You also need to
actively express its messages in life. Thus, activity and passivity
need to be reversed. Your mind will thus become an instrument. It will open up, puncture
its limitations, and acquire new concepts—lightly, not tightly—with
which to “play around” for a while. This attitude of lightness in
your perceptions, of exibility, of motility of mind, will make you
the most receptive to your apparent emptiness. Now, my friends, as we approach this emptiness, how does it feel. What is it all about. Again, the human language is extremely
limited, and it is almost impossible to squeeze this kind of
experience into the context of language. I will try my very best to
give you some tools, however. As you listen into your inner “chasm,” it seems at rst to be a
black gulf of emptiness. What you feel at this point is fear. This fear
seems to ll you up. What is this fear. It is as much a fear of nding
yourself to indeed be empty as of nding yourself with a new
consciousness, with a new being evolving within you. Although you
yearn for this, you also fear it. The fear exists in both possibilities:
You want the new consciousness so much that you fear
disappointment, and yet you also fear nding this consciousness
because of all the obligations  and changes that this might  impose on
you. You must travel through both these fears. On this path you
have received the tools to deal with such fears by questi oning your
lower self. Going Into the Emptiness
But the time comes when you are ready, notwithstanding the fear,
because you have already made the connections. You know, for
example, what  your lower self wants and why you have negative
intentions. The time comes when, in spite of the fear, you decided
calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness. So you empty your
mind in order to meet the emptiness deep within. Lo and behold,
very soon that very emptiness will feel, not full the same way youare used to, but it will contain a new aliveness that the old articial
fullness of your mind made impossible. In fact, you will soon nd
out that you made yourself articially dull by packing yourself tight:
tight in the mind because of its noise, and tight within your channel
by contracting your energy into hard knots of defense. You had
killed your aliveness with this articial fullness. So you became
needier becaus e without your inner life you could not be fullled in
a real sense. A vicious circle was established as you strove to get
fulllment from outside, since you refused to go through the
necessary steps to make fulllment rst manifest within. In one sense you fear the aliveness more than the emptiness. And
perhaps you had better face that. When you make yourself
suciently empty, the rst initial response is an inner aliveness, and
you tend to immediately shut the lid tight again. Yet by denying
your fear you also deny that you are really very unhappy about your
lack of aliveness. But lack of aliveness comes from fearing it. You
can make the fear give way to aliveness by letting yourself be
creatively empty. The Actual Experience
You will experience your whole inner being, including your body
and your energy, as a vibrantly alive “inner tube. ” Energy goes
through it, feelings go through it, and something else is vibrantly
coming to the fore that you cannot as yet name. If you do not shy
away from that unnameable something, it will sooner or later turn
out to be constant inner instruction: truth, encouragement, wisdom,
guidance, specically destined to your life right now, wherever you
need it most. That emptines s, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God
talking to you. At any moment of the day it is talking to you where
you need it most. If you really wish to attune to it and hear it, you
will discern it, rst vaguely, later strongly. You need to condition
your inner ear to recognize it. As you begin to recognize the vibrant
voice that speaks in wisdom and love—not in generalities, but
specically to you—you will know that this voice has always existedin you, but you have conditioned yourself not to hear it. And in that
conditioning you have tightened and packed up that “inner tube”
that will ll you with the vibrant music of the angels. When I say the “music of the angels,” I do not necessari ly mean
this literally, although that, too, may exist. But what you need more
is the guidance  for every decision about what opinion or attitude to
adopt in a given situation. That instruction is truly comparable to
the music of the angels in its glory. This fullness cannot be described
in its wonder;  it is a treasure beyond all words. It is what you
constantly look and yearn for, but most of the time you are not
aware of this searching and project it on substitute fulllments that
you expect to come from outside. Refocus on what has always existed within you. Your mind and
outer will have confused and complicated your life, so this new
contact is like nding your way out of a maze—a maze you have
created. You can now recre ate your inner landscape without that
maze. The New Person as the Receptacle of the Universal
Intelligence
Now, my dearest friends, I would like to say a few words about
the new person in the new era. What is the new person. The new
person is indeed always a receptacle of the universal intelligence,
the divine consciousness, the Christ consciousness, that permeates
every particle of being and of life. The new person is not functioning
from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to
be cultivated to fulll its role as an important stepping stone in
humanity’s evolution. By now, the overemphasis has gone on too
long. This does not mean you should revert to the purely blind,
emotional “desire-nature,” rather, it means you should open up to a
higher realm of consciousness within you and let it unfold. There was a period in evolution when it was as hard for people to
nd their ability to think, to weigh, to discriminate, to retainknowledge, to remember, in short, to use all the faculties of the
mind, as it now seems hard to nd contact with the highe r self. The
new person has established a new balance in the inner system. The
intellect must not be left out; it is an instrument that must serve,
become unied with the greater consciousness. For many ages
people believed that the intellectual faculties were the highest form
of development, and some still believe this now. So they make no
attempt to journey further and deeper into their inner nature to nd
greater treasures. On the other hand, there are many spiritual
movements that practice discarding and inactivating the mind
altogether. This is equally undesirable because it creates splits
rather than unication. The Function of the Intellect in the New Person
Both these extremes are half-truths, though they can have relative
validity. For example, in the past, people were like beasts,
undisciplined and irresponsible as far as their immediate desires
were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires,
regardless of ethics and mora lity. So for that stage the development
of the intellect fullled its function. And the intellect also fullled
its function as a very sharp tool of learning, of discrimin ating. But
when it ends there it becom es futile. People become pitiful when
they cannot become animate d by their divinity. By the same token,
the practice of leaving the mind temporarily inactive is advisable,
and I recomme nd it myself. But to treat the mind as if it were the
devil and to oust it from your life is missing the point. In either extreme, people lack something; they need all their
functions in working order to express their divinity. Without a mind,
you become a passive amoeba; when the mind is deemed the
highest faculty, you become  a hyperactive robot. The mind then
becomes a computerized machine. True aliveness exists only when
you wed the mind with the spirit and allow the mind to express the
feminine principle for a while. Until now the mind has been very
much linked with the masculine principle: action, drive, control. Now the mind has to expre ss the feminine principle: receptivity. This does not mean that you will become passive. In a sense, you
will be more active, more truly independent than you were before. For when the mind receives inspirations from the God-
consciousness, they must be put into action. But this putting into
action is harmonious, eortle ss, not like a cramp. When your mind
is receptive, it can be lled with the higher spirit within you. Then
the functioning becomes totally dierent, forever new and exciting. Nothing becomes routinized, nothing becomes stale, nothing
becomes redun dant. For the spirit is forever alive and changing. This is the energy and experience you have increasing ly in your
community, where the new inux is working so strongly. The new person makes all decisions from this new consc iousness
after working his or her way through to becoming truly receptive to
the spiritual being within. The results would sound utopian for
someone who has not begun  to experience this. I am happy to say
that quite a number of you are already part of this strong cosmic
movement for which you have made yourself available. You
experience hitherto undreamed-of expansion and joy, resolutions of
problems that you never thought possible. And it continues. There
are no limitations to your fulllment, to the peace, to the
productivity, to the creativity of living, to joy, love, and happiness,
and to the meaning your life has acquired as you serve a greater
cause. Entering the New, Greater Life
The time has passed for each individual to live only for a selsh,
immediate little life. This can no longer continue. Those who insist
on this way lock themselves out from a power that would turn
destructive in a mind that is still geared to selshness. For that
selshness comes from the false belief that you are happy only when
you are selsh, and unhapp y when you are unselsh. That false
belief is one of the rst myths you need to explore and challenge. You are creating a new life for yourself and your environment, of
a kind that humanity has not yet known. You are preparing for it,
others are preparing for it, here and there, all over the world,
quietly. These are golden nuclei that spring up out of the gray, dark
matter of untruthful thinking  and living. So further that channel in
you. It will bring you the excitement and the peace you always
wanted. Enter this new phase, my dearest friends, with courage and
armation. Rise up and become who you truly are, and experience
life at its best. All of you are blessed, my very dearest ones. The blessings will
give you the sustenance you need to go all the way with all of
yourself and become enlivened, activated, actualized by the God
within. Be in peace. OceanofPDF. comThe Voice Within: A Meditation from the Guide
 … If you make yourself still and listen into your inner self, you will
hear its voice. It will say, with variations:
I am the ever-loving God, 
the ever-present Creator  
living within you  
moving through you  
expressing as you in myriad forms — 
as you, and you, and you — 
as the animals  
as the trees and the sky and the rmament  
as everything that exists. I shall dwell in you  
and if you allow Me to act through you  
to be known through your brain  
to be felt through your feelings  
you will experience My power that is limitless. You will not fear this power  
that manifests on all levels. The power is great, but give in to Me. Give in to this power  
to this stream that surges forth, 
that will make you cry  
and that will make you laugh  
both in joy. For you are Me and I am you. I cannot act on this level  
without your being an instrumentality for Me. And if you listen to Me, 
I will guide you through every step of the way. Whenever you are in darkness, 
you are away from Me. And if you remember this, 
you will make steps to come back to Me. I am not far away. I am right here, in every particle of your own being. If you thus fulll My will, 
you and I become more one, 
and I can fulll your will.
You must acknowledge and face your fear, rather than trying to avoid it.
What is the first step in facing one's fear?
The intellect must be used to serve the greater consciousness, not as a means to avoid the necessary steps to achieve true fulfillment.
What is the purpose of the intellect in the new age?
It is crucial to understand and transform the lower self through self-reflection, as this is the key to connecting with the higher self and the divine.
What is the importance of self-reflection in the path to self-realization?
The mind must be open to new possibilities and receptive to the divine, but not overly focused on the outer world.
What is the role of the mind in the new era?
The key is to listen to your inner guidance and be open to the divine, rather than trying to control or manipulate the world around you.
What is the key to achieving a harmonious balance between activity and passivity?