In becoming acquainted with our inner cast of characters, or inner psychic frequencies, we especially need to accept the apparently undesirable ones, including the scared, sensitive child and the hostile, vengeful adult. These characters live in hiding, as our shadow-self, which can be repressed but never eliminated.

Exercises for Chapter 5: 1. Keep a Daily Review of disharmonious events in one area of your life, e.g., relationships with the opposite sex, relationships with the same sex, or your work life. Find the common denominators of your problems in this area, and from that begin to deduce your images, as follows: a. Look for and write out the

Their negative expectations created negative experiences; and their negative experiences then confirmed their negative expectations.

The goal of every spiritual path is to touch into and gradually learn to live from this inner “nucleus” where the “eternal presence of God” dwells within us.

The spiritual path also progresses in circles that create an ever-deepening spiral of growth: we dissolve images and learn new ways of being, then we go deeper and see the errors in the ways we now follow, and we dissolve those blockages. Facing a particular issue, we work something through only to circle around at a later time and face the same

The call of the soul to grow spiritually comes to us in the form of our personal longings. Every human being longs for something we believe will make our lives more fulfilling. This may come to us as longing for a deep mutuality with a mate or for meaningful work or for a more loving family. Or our desires may be for spiritual fulfillment, for a

When we dissolve our personal limitations, our expansion has an impact on everyone around us, in a ripple effect. Whenever any one of us makes the leap of expanding his personal boundaries, deepening his sense of inner security and safety to include more of life, then all of humankind expands. The evolutionary process of the species is furthered.

Spiritual growth is a process of steadily expanding our boundaries, eventually to include the entire spectrum of human possibilities.

Every fault acknowledged, every defense dismantled, and every pain felt and released, gives us powerful new reserves of thought and feeling for creating our lives in positive new directions. And, on the other hand, every negative attitude unconsciously perpetrated, every defense held on to, and every pain denied, ties up our life energies and