Bones: A Building-Block Collection of 19 Fundamental Spiritual Teachings - Real.Clear., #5

Maybe our struggles aren't about what's happening to us—but what's happening within us?

Bones is a powerful collection of spiritual teachings from the Pathwork Guide that goes straight to the core of human experience. Rather than offering surface-level inspiration, this book uncovers the hidden inner structures—emotional patterns, unconscious beliefs and protective defenses—that quietly shape our lives.

With clarity and depth, these teachings explore how we avoid feelings, create false identities, repeat painful patterns, and resist the very growth we long for. You'll discover how fear, pride and self-will keep us stuck… how childhood wounds replay in adult relationships… and how unconscious "images" and inner contradictions block fulfillment.

But this isn't just about insight—it's about transformation.

Bones offers a practical path for real change. As we do, something shifts. 

Because the framework of our lives is built from within. When we change there, we change everything.

CONTENTS
1 Emotional growth and its function
2 The importance of feeling all our feelings, including fear
3 The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask Self
4 Three basic personality types: Reason, Will and Emotion

5 Intellect and will as tools or hindrances to self-realization
6 The origin and outcome of the idealized self-image
7 Love, power and serenity in divinity or in distortion
8 How and why we re-create childhood hurts

9 Images and the deep, deep damage they do
10 Unpacking the pain of our old destructive patterns
11 Our habit of transferring our split onto everyone
12 Finding out the truth about ourselves, including our faults

13 The ubiquitous faults of self-will, pride and fear
14 Exposing the mistaken image we have about God
15 Learning to speak the language of the unconscious
16 How pleasure gets twisted into self-perpetuating cycles of pain

17 Overcoming our negative intention by identifying with our spiritual self
18 How to use meditation to create a better life
19 The giant misunderstanding about freedom and self-responsibility