The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork

In allowing our creativity we incorporate our polarities—our masculine and our feminine aspects, our focused work and our letting go, our fullness and our emptiness. Through this path of acceptance of all that we are, we become whole.

As we drop our defenses and embrace all of who we are, we come to know our true identity as God-inspired beings. We embrace our free will and choose harmony, love, and respect over divisiveness, fear, and destruction. We choose both connection and individuation, rather than separation or self-denial.

Scientists and artists have shared the experience that their most creative achievements, or most profound insights into the nature of the universe, came after letting go of mental hard work and allowing some deeper wisdom or vision to come through them. Having touched into a deeper reality where a mathematical truth, a beautiful painting, or an exq

In our transformation work, we learn first to identify with the positive ego in its functioning as objective, compassionate observer. As our identification with detached and loving selfobservation deepens, we become the bowl of awareness itself, rather than the contents of that bowl.

“Welcome the purification process. Attend to it. And let go of the conception process. What is needed will happen of itself when the time is right. There is nothing you can or should do about this. Truly give this over into the hands of God.

"The more you acknowledge your hate, the less you hate. The more you accept your ugliness, the more beautiful you become. The more you accept your weakness, the stronger you are. The more you admit your hurt, the more dignity you will have. These are inexorable laws. This is the path we tread.

The process may at times seem unbearably slow; at other times dizzyingly rapid. For a while we will expand toward greater fulfillment; and then we will temporarily contract. Our personal spiritual evolution moves in a spiral form. We circle around the same inner issues and difficulties, but each time at a deeper level, as our ability to learn from

Our lives are our art, the outer manifestation of our inner spirit.

We accept that our life manifestation is the result of the creative potential of both our lower and higher selves. We change our self-identity from being the listener to the different radio stations—the different “channels” within our psyche—to being the one who turns the dial, and is thus responsible for what we manifest. This understanding of res