Sticky: Hello PWOS Enthusiasts!
Posted: January 4th, 2010 | Author: Teresa Dietze | Filed under: Uncategorized“Practical Work on Self” REPLAYS, SEE BELOW
PWOS details 24 exercises. Each exercise, from “Practical Work on Self,” by E.J. Gold, is a practical demonstration of a spiritual principal. Our job in this class is to find ways and means to demonstrate and work with these principals in daily life.
David Franco says: “I do not know how many times I have participated in this series of exercises, nor do I know how many times I have presented the material, but I do know that at some point in each exercise, I find myself on some uncertain ground of a new land.”
David and Teresa invite you to join us on this voyage.
Practice is best done together for two reasons.
First, we help each other learn what the exercises may be and how to bring them out from within us. Then each and everyone of us is a carrier of this information for others.
Second, we can help our fellow voyagers on their paths.
Each exercise requires each of us to work out our own puzzle of “HOW TO” do each step. We do that for ourselves, then we can help others do it as well.
Teresa Dietze has run the PWOS class several times in Seattle. Her interest in the material and recent visit to E.J. Gold’s Institute helped to initiate this phase of the PWOS voyage.
Replays of our PWOS CLASS SERIES can be heard by clicking the links below to the sound files of chapters and related classes.
To access files from early chapters begin with January under “Archives” to the right and below chapters that show.
Note: Classes continue and resume with the book “Human Biological Machine,” beginning Wednesday October 20th at 7 PM PST
Our new website will be HERE. Note that HBM is capitalized.
Welcome to our site for The Work!
You may use this space to post comments to your class mates.
Thanks for putting this together my friend. Lots of work to serve those on this journey. I am glad we are on this voyage together.
David and Teresa,
Thank you for making this recording available. I will not be attending the class, as I simply have enough more than enough Work before me as it is.
However, listening to this recording of the intro was valuable almost as an oracle. You raised issues I am working with and brought with your presence and substance a helpful perspective. This quality is difficult to describe but perceptible to me.
Warmly,
Eric
Some years ago, the following attributed to Parker Dixion was posted on one of E J Gold’s websites.
“A few tips for perfoming the exercises: First dedication, then just do it and not fret about doing it right or
wrongly. Also when possible key it with movement. The more you try it, the more ideas you’ll get yourself about how to maintain the momentum of the invocation. That’s probably the biggest trick right there. The volumes are all so much goobledegook until you try it…then you start to get a feel for what is being talked about.”
What a terrific quote. Thanks for sharing it Mike.
If you are (or someone else is) willing to say more about “the invocation” this topic would interest me too, and I believe be useful to others.
(Shared with permission, from an email.)
I made several attempts at reading PWOS on my own, and gave up. It confused me, even read slowly–it seemed like the harder I tried, the worse my frustration. The course (I’m only up to chapter 6 currently) with the discussion and input from several “tuned in” people, is making sense and becoming fascinating work. I come away with several insightful ideas each week. One great one early on for me, was Teresa’s comment to ‘go into’ physical pain, instead of trying to tell it not to be there. I found that I had spent so much energy saying “I don’t want this, this shouldn’t be” that I was indeed making it much worse. Once I started exploring it and observing the pain, then –voila– it was nothing. I feel more like an animal now (like my cat) in dealing with the occasional physical pain- accepting and not judging it. I’m also amazed that the machine can have so much facial tension, when I am hardly aware of the emotion behind it. Ah, so much more to discover.
Jennie