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In the Pathwork Guide Lectures, psychology and spirituality are brought together, religion and atheism walk hand in hand, East and West no longer collide, reason and faith support each other, thinking and feeling don’t exclude each other, negative character traits no longer need to be repressed, denied or justified. I began to understand my life and Life. God, Brahman, Allah or the Universal Spirit is talking to us, the messages becoming clearer and clearer throughout history.

–Gerard van de Lustgraaf

The Pathwork is grounded in 258 lectures, delivered over 22 years by Eva Pierrakos. Here is a sampling of what the lectures offer.

"Happy is the person who has truly declared for God! But how few such people are there in your world! Some of you have reached the place of surrender on the long road upward. Others think they have done so merely because they have made some half-hearted compromises. What is a wholehearted decision for God? It always involves giving up something. It may mean letting go of an opinion, a desire, perhaps a way of life. Yet in reality you do not give up anything, but the act of "giving up," which is how this surrender appears to you, must be carried out. 

 "Only after you have proven your willingness and taken this step will you find that you actually receive much more than you have given up: you find that you have given up nothing! This paradox is veiled in a cloud of unknowing, which automatically disappears when a person has proven the willingness to sacrifice something important for God. Many people have mistakenly interpreted the law that governs a decision for God to mean giving up the world and retiring to a cloister. Such ascetics often give up nothing, while others remain in the world and truly surrender their lives. In the wholehearted declaration that they have made for God, His will and its fulfillment is expressed in deed, in word, in intention. That others around such a person may never know this is quite natural. Often God gives back what one has first given up....

"Since children so seldom receive sufficient mature love and warmth, they continue to hunger for it throughout life unless this lack and hurt is recognized and properly dealt with. If not, as adults they will go through life unconsciously crying out for what they missed in childhood. This will make them incapable of loving maturely. You can see how this condition continues from generation to generation.

"In mundane psychology, the goal is the resolving of inner conflicts so as to function better. As I have said before, this must inadvertently, as it were, bring a person into contact with his or her spiritual center. But that is not its goal. Our aim is just that -- and it must solve all problems along the way...

 "Each life has something different to fulfill -- and all lives have the same to fulfill. Again, this may appear as a contradiction, but it is not, my friends. Keep in mind that the goal of this path is finding the center of your being which is reality, which is God, and through which you find fulfillment -- not in isolation but in unity....