What Is The Pathwork^®?

Overview - 1

The Pathwork¹ is a path of personal transformation and spiritual self-realization, set out in a sizeable body of teachings that were originally transmitted through Eva Pierrakos in the years 1957 to 1979, the year of her death.  The teachings came in the form of lectures supplemented by question and answer sessions.  The entity sourcing this material came to be referred to as "The Guide," and the lectures became known as "Guide lectures," or "Pathwork lectures."  The name "Pathwork" also refers to the community of people around the world that seek to apply the Pathwork teachings in their lives.  Pathwork web sites provide information on a growing number of Pathwork communities around the world.

The Pathwork process advocated in the teachings "is,  above everything else, a process of making things conscious.” ²  This process involves work at all levels of the human entity: mind and thought, will, feelings, the body, and what manifests in a person's actual life experience.³  This normally means first paying attention to what does not work well in one's life and to one's inner difficulties and obstructions, not trying to bypass what is in the psyche.⁴  "The law of personal responsibility is the guiding principle on the search for the root of one's obstructions.  By contemplating one's life, especially the fulfillment or lack of it, one can regard it as an instant blueprint that outlines the areas where there must exist an inner corresponding attitude responsible for either." ⁵