30 Humor can heal, but sometimes it just hurts

About: The symbolism of the sea The sea of life is always alternating between storms and sunny skies. Until one day, we reach our destination. And what is our destination? Firm land. It sounds backwards, but that’s what God’s Spirit World actually is. The firm ground of the divine is our true home. And getting there all depends on how we direct our little boat. How good are we at navigating life? All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: The tools of the dark forces These tangles and knots create an actual spiritual form that surrounds groups of people. As mentioned, everyone contributes their share to these tangles, which the dark forces so masterfully tempt us to create. And yes, there is usually one person who adds more to the confusion than most. But what if someone decides to take the spiritual high road? If they begin to gradually loosen one knot, and then another. Eventually, when there are no more knots, everything becomes clear. The beauty of making such an effort toward true clarity is that it helps even the weaker people to stop deceiving themselves. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: Three main ways we escape If we truly want the unlimited dimensions of reality to be revealed to us—if we want to attain the blissful “now point”—there is only one safe and secure way to do it. Simply put, we must fulfill the task we have come here for. And it is by walking an authentic spiritual path—such as the one laid out for us by the Pathwork Guide—that we can do so. We have to learn to travel through our pain. This includes the pain of our guilt, of our illusions, and of our side that is still undeveloped. Ultimately, that’s what it really all comes down to. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: Time and our shortcuts to bliss Time is another thing that results from fragmentation. For time is really just the illusion that gets created by having a disconnected view of reality. To continue using one of the examples for this topic, time is the perception of only the partial steps, those smaller creative units. Too often we can’t see the whole structure that this particle of time is part of. And this causes us to suffer from the feeling that things are senseless. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: How creating happens These teachings can help us change what we’re creating in life by helping us regain our inner light. We’ll start out talking about some general creation concepts in Part One. In Part Two, we’ll explore the illusion of time and some of the ways we attempt to take shortcuts. Then in Part Three we’ll move into specific ways we can use these truths in our own personal lives. We’ll especially explore the three most common ways people attempt to escape living in the present. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: The many faces of humor Humor is a funny thing (pun intended). It can wear many faces. Depending on what’s going on inside us, our sense of humor may carry a mix of both lightness and darkness. As such, we can look at the way we use humor—at the kind of humor that tickles us—to learn some things about ourselves. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: How hidden hurts imprison us It’s a most intriguing question: What was behind Salman Rushdie’s motivation for writing such an inflammatory story? In this essay, Jill Loree shares some insights—not about The Satanic Verses, but about the author—gained from reading his memoir, Joseph Anton. What made him do it? Believe it or not, perhaps without realizing it, he tells us. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: The process of improving As we start doing our personal development work, we will gradually unwind the twisted wiring in ourselves. And this will bring us into more and more clarity. Our confusion about what to believe—about what is the truth—will go away. But what can happen, as we start to see things more clearly, is we pick up the sword of truth and use it to stab people. After all, even though we’re accessing more light, we still have darkness within us. Overcoming our own darkness is a long, slow process. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: The basis for better governing Our perception of the world is backwards—or inside out—from how it actually is. In reality, the world around us is always an out-picturing of what’s inside us. Our world reflects the collective contents of our psyche. What’s happening is we are dropping the ball on the two things a democracy demands most from each of us: self-responsibility and compassion. All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks

About: The reason for self-examination The reason we need to “find ourselves” is that along the way, we’ve lost our connection to our own inner divine nature—to our light-filled center. What’s blocking us and our light then—and what is therefore making us so often feel unhappy and stuck—is our own inner obstacles, our own inner darkness. You know, it wasn’t always this way. There was a time—long before the creation of this time-bound universe—when we were all free-flowing beings of light. And we were all living together in freedom and peace, in truth and connection, in joy and contentment. So what happened? All essays | Get a Better Boat We Can Heal | After the Ego • Blinded by Fear Real. Clear. series | Holy Moly • Finding Gold • Bible Me This • The Pull • Pearls • Gems • Bones • Nutshells Self. Care. series | Spilling the Script • Healing the Hurt • Doing the Work More | Walker • Word for Word • Living Light • Spiritual Laws Read Keys, a collection of Jill Loree's favorite Pathwork Questions & Answers, on The Guide Speaks