
Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self

Everyone carries distortions in their sexual and aggressive functioning. The more afraid we are of these distortions, the more we limit the energy available for these vital self-expressions. Everyone creates negative life experience from their unconscious lower self impulses. The more we deny the power of our own lower selves to create negatively,
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The shock is to our Idealized Self Image. The ISI, or Mask, is always trying to make us and others believe we are more or better or kinder or more competent than we actually are. The Mask holds on to the illusion of our victimization and does not want to see how we create our own unhappiness. Once we are truly willing to face the negative intention
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The true qualities of the higher self are then distorted by the lower self into an “imitation” of the higher self which we hope will make us both invulnerable and acceptable to others. The fear in the lower self distorts a true capacity for love into submission and dependency (the mask of love). The self-will of the little ego of the lower self dis
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