Pathwork is not about eradicating the ego but about developing a healthy ego that is connected and integrated with the Higher Self. One day as I was driving on 1-70 in the mountains of Colorado I entered that state of "driving trance" and asked myself, "What are the characteristics of a healthy ego?". These are the responses that my own Higher Self gave to me. It occured to me that these are,in fact, the goals of successful psychotherapy.

1. To develop a true sense of self-acceptance that is not based on external factors but on an internal acceptance of one's own being.

  Pathwork is a psychospiritual approach to healing and personal growth that evolved from material that was channeled by Eva Pierrokos for a period of approximately 20 years beginning in the late 1950s. Eva discovered that she had a gift for automatic writing and connected to a spiritual teacher who identified himself simply as "The Guide"in this manner. She channeled many lectures that outlined the process of how to move from a life that was limited by our defended egos to one of living in harmony with our true Spirit and greater consciousness, love and creativity.

  Some years ago I read the then best-seller, The Road Less Travelled, by M. Scott Peck. I was very impressed from the very first sentence in the book. "Life is difficult", he wrote, and I immediately knew that this was not going to be another quick-fix self-help book that would be long-forgotten within  a few days after reading it. Instead it was an honest, straight-forward look at the process of psychotherapy as a challenging undertaking that requires hard work and commitment as well as time. Many do not have the willingness to commit to doing their work, to heal, to grow, to change. Thus those who are follow a "road less traveled", a phrase coined by poet Robert Frost who happens to hail from Vermont, my home state. However those who do take on the challenge and stick with it find that psychological healing and maturity lead very naturally to spiritual development. In fact authentic spirituality must involve doing one's psychological work. Peck's work was a large contributor to the emerging field of psycho/spiritual psychotherapy and had a profound influence on me.