[1] Page 107, Header. Real help is not someone doing something, for us, or a lessening of our personal struggles. Throughout this book, and certainly in the book Practical Work on Self, EJ Gold turns us away from “our personal suffering and struggles.” Why does this differ from classical psychological help?
[2] Page 108, Paragraph 6. There are only two fundamental identities from which we operate, the Intelligence and the Primitive Brain. Have you seen these working as two separate and distinct identities? Explain.
[3] Page 110, Paragraph 1. We can search for a method, a practical means, by which the machine is brought to a state which actually reflects the highest ideals of our essential self in the deepest fibers of its being. Prior to our work on Self, the machine could see nothing other than its primal survival modes. As we awaken the machine, and free the Essential self, and new life can emerge. Can you sense any of your higher ideals?
[4] Page 112, Paragraph 3. Work is help. What is meant by the Work?
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