The Guide/Eva Pierrakos

The Pathwork of Self Transformation

Selected Excerpts

In order to perceive and experience your true identity, as being the Universal Spirit, three basic things are necessary:
1) That you tune in on it. By knowing of its existence this will be possible. You must become very quiet within yourself and allow it to happen. You activate it by your deliberate attempt to listen to and perceive it. This is not as easy as it may sound, for the tumultuous busyness of the mind barricades this possibility. It requires training until your mind becomes sufficiently calm, able to stop buzzing and producing involuntary thought patterns. After this is accomplished to some degree, you will experience an emptiness. You will seem to listen in nothingness -- and this may even be frightening or disappointing. Finally the Universal Spirit begins to manifest -- not because it "decides" to do so only now because you were a "good child" who now "deserves" it, but because you begin to perceive its ongoing presence, a presence you will then know was always there, quite near and immediately accessible -- almost too near to perceive.
2) It is necessary to fully experience and comprehend that part of your consciousness which has turned negative, which has become destructive, and creates destructively.
3) Your conscious thinking processes are the first "handlebar" to the Universal Creative Spirit. With your conscious thinking you create just as much as with what is referred to as unconscious thinking and willing. Your thinking ability is actually exactly the same as the creative processes of the Universal Mind. Though it is a separated fragment of the Whole, it has the same powers and possibilities."
Lecture 175 - Consciousness

First, you must clearly see how you have unknowingly used these same mind processes negatively, how you have created destructively. Then you can formulate the thought forms by stating that this is possible in the scheme of things, and by perceiving, knowing, and willing it in a relaxed, untense attitude. This also includes the willingness to change faulty and dishonest inner attitudes, for otherwise you block what you want.
By building outer thought forms of creative unfoldment, you can tap the rich source within your own being. The beginning is made by the conscious activity of your thinking apparatus which, again, is much too near to be easily recognized. It requires a certain focusing of attention on your thinking processes, observing how you use them; how the immediately available processes of thinking, the way you use your mind, create what you have and what you do not have. Once you can reverse this process, you have discovered a tool of creation and become truly your real self. For you are the Universal Spirit who created the world. You are constantly creating your own world right now -- the life you lead.
Giving attention to your inner processes will make it apparent that much of what you thought was in your unconscious really is not hidden at all. Observe this especially when you find yourself in a disturbed or disturbing situation. See how you take so much of the situation and your reactions for granted, that you gloss over your most obvious attitudes, just those which will give you the clues to understand how your creative powers work -- here, of course, inverted and manifesting negatively."
Lecture 175 - Consciousness

"Since the possibilities are endless, infinite, and limitless, the consciousness can explore itself also by confining itself, by fragmenting itself off -- to "see what happens," as it were. It experiences itself: instead of expanding more, it contracts, instead of unfolding, it tries out how it feels to draw in; instead of exploring further lights, it wants to see how it is to feel and experience darkness. Creating is fascination per se. This fascination is not eliminated simply because what is created is -- first perhaps only by slight degrees -- less pleasurable or blissful or brilliant. Even in that may lie a special fascination and adventure -- just to tentatively try, if I may use these very limited words. Then it begins to take on a power of its own. For everything that is created has energy invested in it and this energy is self-perpetuating. It takes on its own momentum. The consciousness who has created these channels and pathways may experiment longer and more than it is "safe" because it no longer leaves itself enough power at the moment to reverse the course. It may get lost in its own momentum, unwilling to stop, and later it no longer sees how to stop on this course. Creation then takes place entirely, or primarily, on a negative scale, until the results are so unpleasant that it seeks to get a hold of itself and counteract the momentum by "recalling" its real knowledge of what could be. At any rate, it knows there is no real danger, for whatever suffering you human beings feel, it truly is illusory in the ultimate sense. Once you find your true identity within, you will know it. It is all a play, a fascination, an experiment, from which your real state of being can be recaptured, if only you will truly try."
Lecture 175 - Consciousness

"The ego, with its confinement, is the structuring which protects the entity from its own destructive creating. It holds it in check. Only when consciousness expands into the channels of bliss and truth can the structuring remove itself. So, at one time in your evolution, you were chaotically unstructured."
Lecture 175 - Consciousness

"You can begin to contemplate the fact that you can deliberately will creative construction by consciously stating, formulating, thinking, and willing a state of happiness, aliveness, fulfillment, truth, love, growth -- generally and in all possible particulars -- which would make you happy."
Lecture 175 - Consciousness

"This important aspect of meditation requires a great deal of time, patience, perseverance, and determination. Remember at all times that wherever you are unfulfilled, wherever there are problems, wherever there is conflict in your life, you should not concentrate with woe on others or on circumstances outside your control, but you should reach inside and explore the causes imbedded in your own egotistical childish level. Meditation is an absolute prerequisite for this. You must gather yourself calmly and quietly and seek the truth. Ask for an answer as to the causes that you contributed in this particular circumstance. In this state of mind peace will come to you, even before you fully understand."
Lecture 182 - The Process Of Meditation

"You have to identify with the destructiveness and yet you have to be detached from it. You have to realize that it is part of you and you must also realize that there is another part of you that can have the final word, if you so choose. You have to widen the limitations of your conscious ego expressions by realizing that you can say at any moment: "I will be stronger than my destructiveness and will not be hampered by it. I determine that my life will be at its best and its fullest, and that I will overcome the inner blocks that make me want to remain unhappy. My determination will give me the power which will enable me to experience more and more bliss as I let go of the doubtful pleasure of being negative, which I now fully recognize." This is the task of the conscious ego. As this is accomplished, the powers of guidance, wisdom, strength, and a new inner feeling of love and penetration of the universal self will come forth."
Lecture 182 - The Process Of Meditation

"When you feel yourself stymied and hopeless, it should be a sign for you to search for that part in you that says: "I do not wish to change. I do not wish to be constructive." Set out to find this voice. Through meditation, you can explore and let the worst in you express itself."
Lecture 182 - The Process Of Meditation

"Each day brings new tasks, exciting tasks, beautiful tasks. Your inner work should not be approached in a spirit of wanting to get it over with, as if life will begin only after this inner work is done. On the contrary, doing this work is "living" at its best. You may begin each meditation by asking yourself: "How do I really feel at this moment? In what respect am I dissatisfied? What is it that I may be avoiding to face?"
Lecture 182 - The Process Of Meditation

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