| Introduction | |
| I. | You and I and Evil | xi |
| II. | Eva and The Pathwork | xvi |
| III. | How to Use This Book | xvii |
| Part I. | Self-Knowledge | 1 |
| Chapter 1. | Know Yourself | 5 |
| Chapter 2. | Higher Self, Lower Self, and Mask | 9 |
| Ending Self-Deception | |
| Chapter 3. | Accomplishing a Real Change of Feelings | 15 |
| Facing Life | |
| A Thorough Self-Search Takes Time | |
| The Price of Spiritual Growth is High | |
| Three Types of Work | |
| Chapter 4. | Finding One's Faults | 27 |
| The Law of Brotherhood | |
| The Three Main Faults | |
| Daily Review | |
| Chapter 5. | Images | 37 |
| Do I Have an Image? | |
| How to Search for Images | |
| The Benefits of Dissolving Images | |
| Shame | |
| Chapter 6. | The Vicious Circle of Immature Love | 51 |
| The Child Wants Exclusive Love | |
| Fear of Punishment, Fear of Happiness | |
| Two Consciences | |
| Perpetuation of Inadequacy and Inferiority | |
| Dissolving the Circle | |
| Chapter 7. | Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts | 63 |
| The Lack of Mature Love | |
| Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood | |
| The Fallacy of This Strategy | |
| Reexperiencing the Childhood Hurt | |
| How to Stop Recreating | |
| Chapter 8. | The Idealized Self-Image | 75 |
| Fear of Pain and Punishment | |
| The Moral Mask of the Idealized Self | |
| Self-Acceptance | |
| The Inner Tyrant | |
| Estrangement from the Real Self | |
| Giving Up the Idealized Self | |
| Coming Home | |
| Chapter 9. | Love, Power, and Serenity | 87 |
| Love/Submissiveness | |
| Power/Aggressiveness | |
| Serenity/Withdrawal | |
| The Necessity of Emotional Growth | |
| Chapter 10. | Meeting the Pain of Destructive Patterns | 101 |
| The Pain of the Pseudo-Solutions | |
| The Painfulness of Change | |
| The Pain of Unfulfillment | |
| The Shift from Evasion to Reality | |
| Part II. | Attachment to Negativity | 113 |
| Chapter 11. | Finding the Unconscious "No" | 117 |
| Change Through Detection of the No-Current | |
| Observing the Half-Conscious Thoughts | |
| Chapter 12. | Transition from the No-Current to the Yes-Current | 123 |
| It is You Who Says No | |
| Compare the Positive to the Negative | |
| Talking Out the Problem | |
| Chapter 13. | The Function of the Ego in Relation to the Real Self | 132 |
| The Need for a Strong Ego | |
| Reaching Beyond the Ego | |
| Chapter 14. | What is Evil? | 139 |
| Evil as Numbness | |
| Cruelty | |
| Attachment of the Life Force to Negative Situations | |
| The Persistence of Evil: Pleasure Connected to Cruelty | |
| Chapter 15. | The Conflict of Positive and Negative Pleasure as the Origin of Pain | 151 |
| Life and Anti-Life | |
| Desire for the Negative | |
| Self-Perpetuating Cycles | |
| Negativity in Relationships | |
| Chapter 16. | Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current | 163 |
| The Nature of Destructiveness | |
| The Pleasure of Negativity | |
| Blocked Sexual Energy | |
| Chapter 17. | Overcoming Negativity | 171 |
| Three Steps for Working Your Way Out | |
| Roles and Games | |
| The Fourth Step | |
| Part III. | Transformation | 179 |
| Chapter 18. | Meditation with Three Voices: Ego, Higher Self, Lower Self | 185 |
| The Ego as Mediator | |
| The Meditative Attitude | |
| The Changes Effected by the Pathwork Meditation | |
| The Reeducation of the Destructive Self | |
| Chapter 19. | Self-Identification and the Stages of Consciousness | 197 |
| You are the Integrator | |
| The Shift in Identification | |
| The Four Stages of Awareness | |
| Terror Disappears | |
| Expanding Consciousness | |
| Chapter 20. | Dissolving Your Fears | 211 |
| Evil As Defence Against Suffering | |
| The Problem of Laziness | |
| The Fear of Feeling All Feelings | |
| Commit to Going In and Through | |
| Through the Gateway | |
| Chapter 21. | Identification with the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative Intentionality | 225 |
| Negative Intentionality | |
| A New Hope | |
| What Part Do You Identify With? | |
| Giving Up Negative Intentionality | |
| The Way Out | |
| Chapter 22. | Transition to Positive Intentionality | 237 |
| Examine All Thoughts | |
| Going All the Way | |
| Chapter 23. | Visualization Process for Growing into the Unitive State | 243 |
| Making a Whole-Hearted Commitment | |
| Inner Life and Outer Life | |
| Actualizing the Divine Life | |
| The Power to Create | |
| Chapter 24. | Inner Space, Focused Emptiness | 257 |
| Finding the Inner Reality | |
| The Stages of Focused Emptiness | |
| The Real You That Lives in the Real World | |
| Afterword: Evil Transformed; Evil Transcended; the Unitive State | 266 |
| Textual Note | 270 |
| The Pathwork Lectures | 271 |
| List of Pathwork Centers: United States | 277 |
| List of Pathwork Centers: Canada/Europe/Latin America | 278 |
