PL 18 Free Will

February 2023 Newsletter Outline

Study Guide for Free Will PL 18

Explore: Free Will is Essential to the Plan of Salvation;  Paradoxes and Responsibilities of Free Will; Will Direction and Will Power; and Discerning Inner Will

PL 25 Initial Steps for Self-Search & PL 26 Finding Your Faults

          Featuring Chapter 4 from The Path to the Real Self. The "inventory" … is a good beginning. It will make you aware of certain facets in your life and in yourself you may never have thought about before. It may also give you a view of what you might want to change in your life. This concise awareness is necessary.

March 2014 Newsletter PRS4 PL 25

Study Guide: Initial Steps for Self-Search

Explore: The Value of a Self-Inventory; Very Short Films 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;

Interactive exercise: see POV drawings from Participants!

VERY short film suggestions for PL 25 and 26 PRS 4

PL 28 Daily Review

          One of the best techniques for developing awareness: jot down up to 10 disharmonious moments per day. Review them at the end of the week. Notice common denominators. It's free, it's easy, and it works!  

Daily Review PL 28 Suggestions and Forms

PL 29 Finding God's Will: The Forces of Activity and Passivity

             When the active forces are used in the channels destined for the passive currents, there occurs a congestion, and the result is a frustration for the human being.  In addition, The inner will (or its lack) is often in conflict with the outer, or conscious, will.  To fulfill the will of God means overcoming your own inner resistances, and requires an active force.  And the first step is always your endeavors in self‑knowledge, self‑honesty, and your sincere good will.

March 2023 Newsletter Summary PL 29

Study Guide: Finding God's Will: The Forces of Activity and Passivity

Explore: Balancing the Active and Passive Forces; Divine Aspects of the Active and the Passive; Aligning with God’s Will requires the active forces; and Finding God’s Will 

Workshop Handouts: Finding God's Will / Finding Your God Images

PL 30 Self-Will, Pride, and Fear

          If you have one, you must have all of these attributes.  You may have one stronger than the other or more apparent or more conscious, but it is impossible that you have only two, let us say, and the third is entirely missing. And do not believe that there is a human being alive who is entirely free of self‑will, pride, and fear.   

April 2016 Newsletter PL30

Study Guide: Self-Will, Pride, and Fear

Explore: Self-Will, Pride, and Fear; How the Ego uses Pride, Self-Will and Fear as “Ego Tricks” PL 199 In Relationship with Evil; and Overcoming Fear of the Unknown 

YouTube Video Summary 7 mins

PL 31 & 66: Shame / Shame of the Higher Self 

          Shame is an intense emotion, easily activated by focusing upon both our distortions and our best higher self intentions (which may try to manifest before we are mature enough to understand them). Shame can be used by others -- and by ourselves -- to prevent our development and leave us emotionally and spiritually crippled. 

2008 Presentation on YouTube 1hr 20mins 

or 2 Short Samples

Download Study Guide plus MP3 files: 

031-066-TC-Shame-2008.zip

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Explore: summary of PL 31 and PL 61, also Spiritual and Emotional Health through Restitution for Real Guilt PL 109 plus worksheets.

Listen to audio online:

031-066-TC-Shame-2008.mp3

PL 32 Decision Making

        As long as you are living in this sphere of matter, every decision offers two and sometimes more alternatives.  With some decisions and in some cases, there are several wrong ways and one right way.  Only mature and responsible searching will eventually show you what the right way is.  However, in many instances, it actually does not matter on what way you decide, provided the decision has been made wholeheartedly, awarely, responsibly, not shirking any issues or possible results. 

        Even in the cases where one way would be right or better for you than the other alternatives, it is infinitely healthier for your soul, strange as this may appear at first, if you choose the wrong way but in the right attitude.

January 2022 Newsletter Summary

2022 Study Guide: Decision Making PL 32

Workshop Flyer PL 32 Featuring PL 182: Meditation for Three Voices

Powerpoint presentation introduction to PL 32 and PL 182

Video Presentation  48 mins plus Transcript

PL 33 Right and Wrong Faith: Occupation with Self

          There are many good, kind, and even spiritual people who say, when hearing these lectures, it is not good to think so much about the self, it would be better to think more about other people.  Of course, it depends entirely on how the occupation with the self is done ‑‑ or in what way one thinks about other people.  Plus: Three Facets of Faith; realistic acceptance of self, of doubt, and of existing in a transitionary state of development as a human being. 

February 2025 Newsletter PL 33

Study Guide: Right and Wrong Faith: Occupation with Self

Explore: Right and Wrong Occupation with Self  10 mins ; Three Facets of Faith  21mins;

PL 34 The Process of Incarnating

          The technical procedure of birth is directly connected with and dependent on karmic and spiritual law. This was a 5th week 'extra' for  Male and Female Incarnations: Their Rhythms and Causes PL 10. If you are uncertain or uncomfortable about a belief in re-incarnation, consider reading the lecture as a description of the spiritual preparation for a single human lifetime

2021 Study Guide: Preparation for Reincarnation PL 34

Explore: Karmic and Spiritual Law; Connection Between the Incarnatory Process and the Life Task; The Spiritual Process of Human Birth; and A Continuously Evolving Plan

A bit of lightheartedness:  If Life was a Board Game

Also see Connection between Incarnatory Processes and the Life Task  PL 216 to explore The Roles of the Mind, Ego, and Real Self; Human Life Task; Incarnatory Process Begins with Death; and The Connection between Incarnatory Processes and the Life Task 

PL 36 Prayer and Meditation

PL 37 Acceptance: Dignity with Humility

          The acceptance of life with everything it brings, good and bad, and retaining a positive attitude is the true and divine way.  To find the right way is not easy.  Only severe self‑testing and deep meditation will bring you the answer that you personally need. Your fear can only leave you if you learn to embrace unhappiness as a necessary medicine, without thinking that you will always remain sick and need this medicine at all times. 

     August 2024 Newsletter PL 37

Sudy Guide: Acceptance: Dignity in Humility

Explore: Becoming Aware of Spiritual Beliefs  20 mins; Accepting Life as it IS  14 mins;

Finding Dignity in Humility  16 mins; Questions and Answersin PLs  15 mins

PL 37 Acceptance: 5 Exercises   A 5th week review using popular movies

Week 5 video description  12 mins

PL 39 Finding Images  

          The concept of Images is key to understanding distorted perceptions. Masks are the simplest form of an image.  A phony smile, saying yes when we want to say no, dressing to impress -- we compromise who we really are in order to be accepted, appreciated, loved.  Images are generalizations, masks formed in childhood to serve as warning signs, to keep us from feeling emotional pain. 

2013 Finding Images PL 39

PL 40 Finding Images - A Summary       

          On this path, we are concerned with seeking out the wrong images that the human soul harbors. Messages of the unconscious come forth through the major problems in life; through repetitive patterns; illness; any unfulfillment or lack. 

          Once it is understood that these occurrences are a message that something is off within the psyche, that a distortion and misconception must somewhere exist, the first step towards elimination of the problem is taken. Yet they are not really hidden. It is merely a question of learning to focus attention on them.