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What Is The Pathwork®?

Overview - 3

Reading and working with some of the full-length lectures is an excellent beginning.  To progress effectively on the Path, the Guide recommends working with someone "with personal experience in this particular method ... [and] ... qualified to help." 1

Without qualified help, it is possible to use the Pathwork lectures as a form of escape.2  This can happen in a variety of ways, for example a (perhaps unwitting) strengthening of defenses; using spiritual transcendence as a way of avoiding difficult aspects of the self; identifying too much with parts of the self (e.g. one's ego), or unwittingly reinforcing certain misconceptions and prejudices.

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1. "I would like to say a few words to some friends ... who read these lectures with interest ... Some of these friends try on their own to reach the depth of their souls by themselves, or with some of their friends.  Their good intent is appreciated.  But I should like to tell them that it is not really possible to succeed by oneself or even with someone else who has not had personal experience in this method.  The method itself cannot be conveyed by the lectures.   The lectures serve as general material, but they cannot give the method itself.  You will do no harm by working by yourself but you will not really get very far.  I would therefore suggest to those friends to not hesitate to get in touch with such members of this group as as are qualified to help.  If they are really interested in using this method, whether for others or for themselves, this will be necessary." -- Lecture 57, last paragraph before Q&A session.

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2. Lecture 27: Escape Is Also Possible On The Path.