THE FULL LIST OF PATHWORK LECTURES
The lectures shown in italics have been used to prepare the introduction. They are primarily those key lectures selected by Judith Saly and Donovan Thesenga when compiling the book The Pathwork of Self-Transformation (Bantam, 1990), with relevant additions based on the material in Susan Thesenga’s The Undefended Self (Pathwork Press, 1994). Again they can all be found here.
1 The Requisites of the Path; The Sea of Life
2 Decisions and Tests
3 The Spirit World - You Choose Your Destiny (9 Apr 57)
4 World Weariness versus Love; Prayer
5 What is Truth?- Freedom, Justice, Religion; Happiness as a Link in the Chain of Life
6 God: Father Image; The Third Kingdom: Matter
7 Decide!: Perfection, Bliss; Fear, Trouble
8 Mediumship - How to Contact God's Spirit World
9 Prayer and Meditation; The Lord's Prayer
10 Reality - Reflected Image
11 Self-Knowledge; The Great Plan; The Spirit World
12 Spirit at Work - Life in the Spirit World
13 Positive Thinking - Right and Wrong Kind
14 The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask (11 Oct 57)
15 Influence Between the Spiritual World and the Material World
16 Spiritual Nourishment
17 The Call
18 Free Will
19 Jesus Christ
20 God: The Creation
21 The Fall
22 Salvation
25 The Path: Initial Steps, Preparation, and Decisions
26 Finding One's Faults
27 Escape Possible Also on the Path
28 Communication with God - Daily Review (25 Apr 58)
29 The Forces of Activity and Passivity - Finding God's Will
30 Self Will, Pride and Fear
31 Shame
32 Decision Making
33 Occupation with Self; Right and Wrong Faith
34 Preparation for Reincarnation
35 Turning to God
36 Prayer
37 Acceptance, Right and Wrong Way; Dignity in Humility
38 Images (24 Oct 58)
39 Image Finding
40 More on Image Finding - Summary
41 Images: The Damage They Do
42 Christmas Blessings - Objectivity and Subjectivity
43 Personality - Three Basic Types: Reason, Will, Emotion
44 The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex (16 Jan 59)
45 The Conflict Between Conscious and Unconscious Desires
46 Authority
47 The Wall Within
48 The Life Force in the Universe
49 Obstacles on the Path: Old Stuff, Wrong Guilt, and Who, Me?
50 The Vicious Circle
51 Whose Blindness? Whose Opinion?
52 The God Image (5 Jun 59)
53 Self-Love
55 Three Cosmic Principles: the Expanding, the Restricting, and the Static Principles
56 Capacity to Wish - Healthy and Unhealthy Motives in Desire
57 The Mass Image of Self-Importance
58 The Desire for Happiness and the Desire for Happiness
60 The Abyss of Illusion; Utopia; Freedom and Self-Responsibility
62 Man and Woman
64 Outer Will and Inner Will - Misconception About Selfishness
66 Shame of the Higher Self
68 Suppression of Positive and Creative Tendencies; Thought Processes
69 The Folly of Watching for Results While on the Path; Fulfillment or Suppression of the Valid Desire to be Loved
71 Reality and Illusion
72 About The Fear of Loving
73 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts (11 Nov 60)
74 Uncertain Confusions and Hazy Motivations
75 The Great Transition in Human Development
77 Self-Confidence - Its True Origin and What Prohibits It
80 Cooperation, Communication, Union
81 Conflicts in the World of Duality
82 The Conquest of Duality Symbolized in the Life and Death of Jesus
83 The Idealized Self-Image (14 Apr 61)
84 Love, Power, Serenity as Divine Attributes and as Distortions (28 Apr 61)
85 Distortions of the Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation
86 Self Preservation and Procreation as Instincts in Conflict
87 The Next Phase on the Path; Questions and Answers
88 Religion: True and False
89 Emotional Growth and Its Function (29 Sep 61)
90 Moralizing; Disproportionate Reactions; Needs
92 Repressed Needs, Relinquishing Blind Needs, Primary and Secondary Reactions
93 Main Image, Repressed Needs, and Defenses - Linked Conflicts Before Clarification
94 The True Self versus Superficial Personality Levels; Sin and Neurosis; Split Concepts Creating Confusion
95 Self-Alienation; The Way Back to the Real Self
97 Perfectionism Obstructs Happiness; Manipulation of Emotions
98 Wishful Daydreams
99 Falsified Impressions of Parents - Their Cause and Cure
100 Meeting the Pain of Destructive Patterns
101 The Defense
102 The Seven Cardinal Sins
103 Harm of too Much Love Giving; Constructive and Destructive Will Forces
104 Intellect and Will as Tools or Hindrances of Self-Realization
105 Man's Relationship to God in Various Stages of His Development Cycle
106 Sadness versus Depression; Relationship
107 Three Aspects That Prevent Man from Loving
108 Fundamental Guilt for Not Loving; Obligations
109 Spiritual and Emotional Health Through Restitution for Real Guilt (7 Dec 62)
111 Soul Substance; Coping With Demands
112 Man's Relationship to Time
113 Identification with Self
114 Struggle - Healthy and Unhealthy
115 Perception, Determination, Love as Aspects of Consciousness
116 Reaching the Spiritual Center - Struggle Between Lower Self and Superimposed Conscience
117 Shame as a Yardstick for Unresolved Problems; Seemingly Favorable Childhood Circumstances as Obstructive as Hurts
118 Duality Through Illusion; Transference
119 Movement, Consciousness, Pleasure Principle as Essence of Life
120 The Individual and Humanity
121 Displacement, Substitution, Superimposition
122 Self-Fulfillment Through Self-Realization as Man or Woman
123 Liberation and Peace by Overcoming Fear of the Unknown
124 The Language of the Unconscious
125 Transition from the No-Current to the Yes-Current
126 Contact With the Life Force
127 Evolution's Four Stages: Automatic Reflexes, Awareness, Understanding, Knowing
128 Fences Man Puts Up Through Limited Illusory Alternatives
129 Winner versus Loser; Interplay Between the Self and Creative Forces
130 Abundance versus Acceptance
131 Interaction Between Expression and Impression
132 The Function of the Ego in Relationship to the Real Self
133 Love, Not a Commandment, But Spontaneous Soul Movement of the Inner Self
134 The Concept of Evil
135 Mobility in Relaxation; Suffering Through Attachment of the Life Force to Negative Situations
136 The Illusory Fear of Self
137 Balance of Control
138 The Human Predicament of Desire For, and Fear of, Closeness
139 Deadening of the Live-Center Through Misinterpretation of Reality
140 Conflict of Positive versus Negative Oriented Pleasure Principle as the Origin of Pain
141 Return to the Original Level of Perfection
142 The Longing for and the Fear of Happiness; Also, the Fear of Releasing the Little Ego
143 Unity and Duality (13 May 66)
144 The Process and Significance of Growing
145 The Call of the Life Stream and the Response to It
146 The Positive Concept of Life; Fearlessness to Love; The Balance Between Activity and Passivity
147 The Nature of Life and the Nature of Man
148 Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current (2 Dec 66)
149 Cosmic Pull Toward Evolution
150 Self-Liking, Condition for Universal State of Bliss
151 Intensity: An Obstacle to Self-Realization
152 Connection Between Ego and Universal Power (7 May 67)
153 The Self-Regulating Nature of Involuntary Processes
154 Pulsation of Consciousness
155 Fear of Self; Giving and Receiving
157 Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency (10 Nov 67)
158 The Ego's Cooperation With or Obstruction to the Real Self
159 Life Manifestation is Expression of Dualistic Illusion
160 Conciliation of Inner Split
161 Unconscious Negativity Endangers Surrender of Ego to Involuntary Processes
162 Three Levels of Reality for Inner Guidance
163 Mind Activity and Mind Receptivity
164 Further Aspects of Polarity; Selfishness
165 Evolutionary Phases in Regard to the Relationship Between the Realms of Feelings, Reason, and Will
166 Perceiving, Reacting, Expressing
167 Frozen Life Center Becomes Alive
168 Two Basic Ways of Life - Towards and Away From the Center
169 The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
170 Fear of Bliss versus Longing for It
171 Spiritual Laws
172 The Life Energy Centers
173 Basic Attitudes and Practices to Open the Centers
174 Self-Esteem (23 May 69)
175 Consciousness (2 Sep 69)
176 The Overcoming of Negativity
177 Pleasure - The Full Pulsation of Life (7 Nov 69)
178 The Universal Functioning Principle of Growth Dynamics
179 Chain Reactions in the Dynamics of Creative Life Substance
180 The Spiritual Significance of Human Relationship (13 Mar 70)
181 The Meaning of the Human Struggle
182 The Process of Meditation (8 May 70)
183 The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis (5 Jun 70)
184 The Meaning of Evil and its Transcendence (11 Sep 70)
185 Mutuality - A Cosmic Principle and Law
186 Venture in Mutuality - Healing Force to Change Negative Inner Will
187 The Way to Handle Alternation of Expansive and Contracting States
188 Affecting and Being Affected
189 Self-Identification Determined Through Stages of Consciousness (12 Feb 71)
190 Importance of Experiencing All Feelings, Including Fear - The Dynamic State of Laziness
191 Inner and Outer Experience
192 Real and False Needs and Their Relationship to Man's State of Consciousness (21 May 71)
193 Resume of the Basic Principles of the Pathwork: Its Aim and Process
194 Meditation: Its Laws and Various Approaches - A Summary (22 Oct 71)
195 Identification and Intentionality: Identification with the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative Intentionality
196 Commitment - Cause and Effect
197 Energy and Consciousness in Distortion - Evil
198 Transition to Positive Intentionality
199 The Meaning of the Ego and its Transcendence
200 The Cosmic Feeling
201 Demagnetizing Negative Force Fields - Pain of Guilt
202 Psychic Interaction of Negativity
203 Interpenetration of the Divine Light Spark into the Outer Regions
204 What is the Path? (20 Oct 74)
205 Order as a Universal Principle
206 Desire - Creative or Destructive
207 The Spiritual Symbolism and Significance of Sexuality
208 Man's Innate Capacity to Create
209 The Roscoe Lecture
210 Visualization Process for Growing Into the Unitive State
211 Outer Events Reflect Self-Creation - Three Stages
212 Claiming the Total Capacity for Greatness
213 The Spiritual and Practical Meaning of ‘Let Go, Let God’
214 Psychic Nuclear Points
215 Psychic Nuclear Points Continued - Process in the Now
216 Connection Between the Incarnatory Processes and the Life Task
217 The Phenomenon of Consciousness
218 The Evolutionary Process
219 I. Christmas Message - II. Message to the Children
220 Reawakening from Deliberate Anesthesia Through Focusing on the Inner Voices
221 Faith and Doubt in Truth or Distortion
222 Transformation of the Lower Self; Summary of the Year's Work
223 The Era of the New Age and New Consciousness
224 Creative Emptiness (23 Oct 74)
225 Evolution In Terms of Individual and Group Consciousness
226 Approach to Self - Self-Forgiveness Without Condoning the Lower Self
227 Change from Outer to Inner Laws in the New Age
228 Balance
229 The Woman in the New Age
230 The Universality of Change - Reincarnative Process in the Same Life Span
231 New Age Education
232 Being Values versus Appearance Values - Self-Identification
233 The Power of the Word
234 Perfection, Immortality, Omnipotence
235 The Anatomy of Contraction
236 The Superstition of Pessimism
237 Leadership - The Art of Transcending Frustration
238 The Pulse of Life on all Levels of Manifestation
239 Christmas Lecture 1975
240 Some Aspects in the Anatomy of Love
241 Dynamics of Movement and Resistance to its Nature
242 The Spiritual Meaning of Political Systems
243 The Great Existential Fear and Longing
244 ‘Be in the World but Not of the World’ - The Evil of Inertia
245 Cause and Effect on Various Levels of Consciousness
246 Tradition, Its Divine and Distorted Aspects
247 The Mass Images of Judaism and Christianity
248 Three Principles of the Forces of Evil; Personification of Evil
249 Pain of Injustice - Cosmic Records of All Personal and Collective Events, Deeds, Expressions
250 The Meaning of Grace; Releasing Faith; Living on Deficit
251 The Evolution and Spiritual Meaning of Marriage - New Age Marriage
252 Privacy and Secrecy
253 Continue Your Struggle and Cease all Struggle
254 Surrender
255 The Birthing Process - Cosmic Pulse
256 Inner Space, Focused Emptiness
257 Aspects of the New Divine Influx; Communication, Group Consciousness, Exposure
258 Personal Contact with Jesus Christ; Positive Aggression; The Real Meaning of Salvation