Path to the Real Self: 2014-16 Study Guides
2014-16 Monthly Newsletters and Study Guides
Each month, a study guide for a Pathwork Lecture or concept is prepared that includes worksheets, charts, and additional Pathwork resources. There is no charge to download. Study guides are divided into 4 weekly self-study portions, emphasizing different aspects of the main concept.
Monthly newsletters include highlights from each of the 4 weekly portions, along with links to articles and videos to illustrate the concepts. Weekly Self-Study notices include 1 of the 4 study guide sections, plus access codes for free online meetings. Click on the Contact Us tab to sign up.
Above: clip from Reality and Illusion PRS 25 & PL 71
The Path to the Real Self (PRS)
Chapters from Eva Pierrakos' book The Path to the Real Self (PRS) were featured during 2015 along with supporting lectures, additional materials, and links to online short films and clips that illustrate Pathwork Principles.
Preface to the Path to the Real Self by Eva Pierrakos
The PRS was written in 1965 and gives a holistic perspective of key concepts from the first 140 lectures. Eva's 5-year preparation for becoming the medium for the anonymous entity known as the Guide is described in her Preface. Download the original manuscript Preface.
January 2014 Newsletter PRS Preface
Study Guide: The Structure of the Human Personality PRS Chapter 3
February 2014Newsletter PRS2 PL 43
Explore: what traits, phrases, attitudes and aspirations you identify with; Notice any variations that occur in different social or professional situations. Then explore What are/were your family dynamics? See PL 43 for video link and additional materials
Study Guide: Initial Steps for Self-Search PRS Chapter 4
March 2014 Newsletter PRS4 PL 25
Interactive exercise: see POV drawings from Participants!
Explore: The Value of a Self-Inventory; VERYshort film suggestions to illustrate some of the concepts; Finding Your Faults PL26; An alternate approach: Life as a Card Game; Life as a Point of View: an arts & crafts project; and Making a commitment to your spiritual journey: Stage One from AD6. See PL 25 for video link and additional materials.
Study Guide: Constructive Attitudes in Self-Confrontation PRS Chapter 5
January 2015 Newsletter PRS5 PL 80
2008 Presentation on PRS 5 (Audio only) Part 1: 57 mins Part 2: 57 min
Explore: Daily Review; Co-operation, Communication, Union; Recognizing inner Resistance; Collusion; Constructive Steps; Managing Difficult Conversations. Also see AD6 under 'Additional Concepts' tab, as well as PL 80 and PL 48 for descriptions and additional materials.
Study Guide:Cosmic Principles Manifest in Soul Currents PRS Chapter 7
April 2014 Newsletter PRS7 PL 149
Explore: The principles of reason, will and emotion; Expanding, restricting, static principles; Films that illustrate cosmic principles; and Human faults of pride, self-will, and fear Ref PL 30. See PL 149 for additional materials
What is your image of who you are -- or who you aspire to be? Download IMAGE TEALIGHTS and select a light....
Study Guide The Language of the Unconscious PRS Chapter 8
February 2015 Newsletter PRS8 / PL124
Explore: How the Unconscious Speaks; Cosmic Laws: Yes and No Currents; Tools and Techniques: The Power of the Word, Written Meditation; and Activating your Yes by uncovering the No currents (ref: PL 125). See PL 124 for additional materials.
Study Guide Perfectionism PRS Chapter 9
March 2015 Newsletter PRS9 / PL97
Explore: How Perfectionism originates; Manipulation of feelings -> Pseudosolutions; No Current -> Yes Current = JOY; and Finding a dynamic balance. See PL 97 for additional materials.
Study Guide: Parents and Images PL118 PRS Chapter 10
May 2014 Newsletter PRS10 / PL118
Explore: Becoming aware of emotional reactions: Awareness of what was in automatic reflex, understanding
based upon new perspectives, allowing our inner knowing to guide us; Becoming aware of unconscious compulsions, conclusions, and images. and how they may be operating in our current lives; Understanding Soul Splits, how our parents represent opposing 'sides' of an issue, your soul’s contract with your parents; Images and the Damage They Do; and Transference. See PL 118 for video link and additional materials.
Study Guide Mass Images PRS Chapter 11
May 2015 Newsletter PRS11 PL 57
Explore: Feminine & Masculine Images; Images of God; Finding Images & Your Resistance; Mass Images in Society. See PL 58 for additional materials
Study Guide Love, Power and Serenity as Divine Attributes and as Distortions PRS Chapter 14
June 2015 Newsletter PRS14 / PL84
Explore: Charts and worksheets on Personality Types and their Qualities, positive and negative, as Constructive or Destructive. Scenes from a film as illustration of the concepts: 11 minute collage See PL 84 for video and audio links plus additional materials.
Study Guide: Real and False Conscience, Real and False Guilt PRS Chapter 15
June 2014 Newsletter PRS15 / PL 92
Explore: Repressed needs and their relationship to Man’s State of Consciousness; Real and False Needs; Repression, Manipulation, Displacement, Substitution; and Sublimation. See PL 92 for additional materials.
Study Guide Forces of Love, Eros and Sex PRS Chapter 17
August 2015 Newsletter PRS17 / PL 44
Explore: Love, Sex and Eros as A Holy Triad; Eros as a Soul Movemen; Integrating Love and Sexuality; and Finding Your Unique Balance. See PL 44 for video and audio links plus additional materials.
Study Guide Some Aspects of Love PRS Chapter 18
July 2015 Newsletter PRS18 / PL240
Explore: The Essence of Love: Self Love; Fear of Loving and The Valid Desire to be Loved; The Roles of Reason, Will, and Emotion in Loving; and Love in Relationship. See PL 240 for additional materials.
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Study Guide: The Defense PRS Chapter 19
July 2014 Newsletter PRS19 / PL 101
Explore: the physical, emotional, and spiritual price of our addiction to defense; What being in defense looks and feels like; What do you fear will happen if your defense is found to be false? and Living in a unitive state on a dualistic plane. See PL 101 for audio presentation and additional materials.
Study Guide: The Abyss of Illusion PRS Chapter 20
August 2014 Newsletter PRS20 / PL60
Explore: Fear’s power = the illusion of danger; The abyss of illusion; Freedom without responsibility; the illusion of the child; Utopia; the illusion of compromise between infant and adult; and The soul’s search for true spiritual freedom, spiritual justice and the power of grace. See PL 60 for additional materials
Study Guide: Benign and Vicious Circles PRS Chapter 21
September 2014 Newsletter PRS21 / PL50
Part 2: The Spiral of Spiritual Development by Dottie Titus
Explore: ‘What goes around comes around’; Factors that Fuel a Vicious Circle; Comparing Vicious and Benign Circles; Elements of a Breaking Point = The Abyss of Illusion. See PL 50 for additional materials.
Study Guide: Repressed Needs, Real and False Needs PRS Chapter 23
October 2014 Newsletter PRS23 / PL192
Explore: Repressed needs and their relationship to Man’s State of Consciousness; Real and False Needs; Repression, Manipulation, Displacement, Substitution; and Sublimation. See PL 192 for additional materials
Study Guide Identification With Self PRS Chapter 24
September 2015 Newsletter PRS24 / PL189
Explore: Accepting the Self – As Is; Identifying with the Real Self; The Spiritual Cause of Pain; Three Spheres of Consciousness; and Group Dynamics. See PL 192 for additional materials.
Study Guide: Duality Through Illusion PRS Chapter 25
November 2014 Newsletter PRS25 PL 81/159
Explore: What Duality looks like in our everyday lives; Unified Consciousness and the process of transcending Duality; Becoming one’s real self means self-fulfilment, as man or woman; Outer symbols of Duality: Our two‑way split is represented by the parents. See PL 159 for additional materials
Study Guide Dreams and Day Dreams PRS Chapter 27
April 2015 Newsletter PRS27 / PL98
Explore: Eva’s teachings on Dreams EP1; Day Dreams PRS27; Spiritual Purpose of Sleep / Spiritual Paradoxes Translating Spiritual Messages to the Material World; and How Wishful Day Dreams fit into these concepts. See PL 98 for additional materials.
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