Learn About Pathwork
Pathwork is a spiritual tradition of self-transformation based on teachings that help individuals to forge a path to their true or real selves, and to move into greater truth, love and connection with self and others. These teachings support the unfolding soul, encouraging self-exploration and uncovering the divine aspects of our human struggle.
The Pathwork teachings were channeled by Eva Pierrakos from a spirit entity of immense wisdom known as the Guide. They are contained in a series of 258 lectures delivered through Eva from 1957 until her death in 1979. The lectures are profoundly concerned with self-knowledge, self-responsibility and self-acceptance.
About the Philadelphia Pathwork
The Philadelphia Pathwork Region is part of a worldwide spiritual community whose purpose is to embody the principles and practices contained in the Pathwork Guide lectures. Founded in 1986, we are a nonprofit organization with a Board of Directors and Helpers Council who oversee the health and enrichment of our community.
We offer a spiritual discipline for comprehensive self-transformation through classes, workshops and ongoing programs led by certified teachers and Helpers. One-on-one sessions with a Pathwork Helper can help you apply the teachings to your own situation and persistent problems.
About our figure 8 logo
In Pathwork Lecture 177 on Pleasure, the Guide shares the meaning of the figure 8:
The figure of 8 is a cosmic movement; it is contained in every energy formation in creation; wherever something is created, very strong powers are at work. When they are harmonious powers, they are unbroken and they contain the figure 8 – even in atomic energy, that figure exists; even in electricity, it exists. It is often not recognized, because these energies are not visible to the human eye, but they exist. Any cosmic energy, any creative energy must bring together various forces; a good illustration of the same principle is the birth of a child – it must bring together the masculine and the feminine forces, so they converge and create this new being; all creation of new states, of new formations of worlds are based on the same principle. Wherever the masculine and feminine energies meet harmoniously, the figure 8 must fuse these two energies, for the masculine and feminine energies or principles exist throughout the universe in every facet imaginable.
Every human being senses an inner longing that goes deeper than the longings for emotional and creative fulfillment. This longing comes from sensing that another, more fulfilling state of consciousness and a larger capacity to experience life must exist.
Pathwork Guide Lecture #204 What is the Path?
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