So let's get right to it, then.
How to read a Pathwork lecture using a rhetorical approach.
I think it's important to understand first of all that rhetoric not
only means the art of persuasion;
it's also the art and science of
truth seeking. And
in rhetoric, every text or performance is
seen as an argument--not in a
conflict way that we tend to think about the word argument,
but really as a dialogue or a dialectic looking for truth.
So when we apply the principles and methods of a rhetorical approach,
we can really facilitate our understanding and grasp things
more quickly and also perhaps more deeply.
So why then apply this to Pathwork? Well,
the first reason is that
the Pathwork lectures are all set up and constructed in an argument format, and
that means that each lecture has a topic and a position,
which is known as a claim together. Or, in Pathwork terms, it's often called "the promise" of the lecture.
And this lecture material is very
conceptual, and it's based on core principles and understandings that come in and out of all the lectures.
And so this really makes the rhetorical approach
a very wise choice to help us really get at the
material. And it works. It does make the lecture material much more accessible.
So, what we will do here is we're going to use a foundational lecture to demonstrate, and for this I've chosen
Pathwork lecture #157, which is "Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency."
And this is a lecture that's suitable to
those new to Pathwork as well as experienced Pathworkers, and this approach is also suitable for
those new to Pathwork as well as experienced Pathworkers.
And also, I will offer support and follow-up if you have questions and
need more explanation.
The basics here are that
argument theory or rhetoric
has a lot of elements to it, right?
Claim, supporting evidence, warrant, backing,
logos, pathos, ethos,
fact, definition, cause, value, policy, and
the good news is you don't have to know any of that to follow this approach! In fact, I've
condensed a lot of the basics of
rhetoric into five questions that we can use when approaching Pathwork lectures.
And so these five questions are:
1. What is the lecture's claim or promise?
And why does this topic or this particular topic of the lecture really matter?
And, secondly, (2)
what concepts or truths
form the foundation of this claim or promise and
make it possible? So what's underlying--what are the assumptions and beliefs and truths that
underlie the argument or the claim of this lecture?
Also, in question three (3), we need to figure out, well, what are the key terms and concepts
that are stated and/or defined? Sometimes
they're stated and not really defined and other times they are stated and defined.
And then we need to get more specific about what the lecture is saying about-- this is question four (4)--
about how we are staying stuck or ignorant or limited, however we want to take--
however we want to look at that.
And another way to ask that is, well,
why are we getting negative results? And of course the follow-up to that is how can we get unstuck? (5)
Right how can we be free?
And another, a Pathwork way of asking that same question is:
How do we replace vicious circles with benign circles?
Well for this particular lecture--
We're going to go through this process, and this process can be used for any lecture.
And it basically goes like this: that you print or write out the five questions (these five questions here) and
then, you know, have them next to you, and you want to answer these questions in
order by going through the lecture. And it's
completely fine to skip through lecture and find things.
It's--this is a
fundamental understanding about the rhetorical approach: is that
we're not reading for the story, right? This is an active form of reading, so
we're mostly kind of conditioned to read things as a story we start at the beginning, and we go away to the end,
but that's not the way to read when you're looking for truth, and when you're taking a
rhetorical approach.
You want to skip around in the beginning, right?
So you want to answer the questions in order, skip through the lecture as much as you need to, and
overall --and
most importantly-- be active in your reading. It's so easy to follow -- to fall into --
that conditioned pattern that we have when we read; we read somewhat passively because we are
We're reading as if it's a story, but this is a very different way of reading.
So, the next thing in this process is to first of all
meditate, contemplate on
the
answers to the first two questions, right, which would be: what's the lecture's claim and
what are the truths or concepts that form the foundation? And
(for question two) those in
argument theory are called warrants if anybody's familiar with that. So
contemplate and meditate on your answers to the first two questions,
and then next you want to study your answers to question 3, which is, you know: What are the key terms and concepts?
And you really at this point need to make sure that
you get what's being presented here; you understand these concepts. And if you don't, well
then you can look them up, and (or) review to make sure that you you are on top of that. And
next,
you want to review your answers to questions 4 and 5, which are how we're staying stuck, and how do we get unstuck?
And once you've done all of this, in this process, now
you're going to go and read the lecture from start to finish.
And, you know, taking notes as you go along because it'll be a very, very different experience for you
now that you have framed out the lecture's
argument. You understand all the terms,
you know what it's about generally, and so now when you read it
you will deeply absorb it. And
that's the whole point of this process-- is to get to that point
where you can read it, and
really, really take it in, and then be able to apply it, which is the seventh step of this process,
which now that you've read the lecture well, and on this level,
understand it,
what kind of intention or intentions can you set for yourself
around the material?
Okay, so before we go now and answer
those five questions,
let me just show you here this lecture. And I'm using the unedited version of the lecture. I always use the
unedited version, and
that's a personal preference. I find that sometimes the edited version
leaves some things out, and so I
go with the unedited.
So, this you'll see that this
copy of the lecture -- I've gone through and made all kinds of
commentary. In fact, it says I've made 50 comments.
It's probably fewer than that because I think they include page changes as comments in this program. In any case,
I've made a lot of commentary; here some of the
commentary
relates directly to the material, and in other points the commentary points to other lectures or
commentaries are also
perhaps an explanation of a key Pathwork concept, and
if you would like a copy of this annotated lecture,
I will make that available to you. So this is the way that that I've done it here, right?
I've got a number of things highlighted that answer these questions, the five questions, and
go into it even in a lot more detail than that, so I just wanted to show you that, and
now let's go to the
answering of the five questions for this particular lecture.
Okay so the first question:
What is the claim or promise, and why does this topic matter?
So, the place where you want to see if you can identify
the claim, and the claim again is the topic plus the position, and you can also think of it as the promise of
the lecture, and we want to use the title because usually the title contains
both of those things, the topic and position, within it, so let me just demonstrate that here the title is called
"Infinite Possibilites Hindered by Emotional Dependency."
Well, the claim if we just kind of move the words around a little bit, we can state the claim--
which is that our emotional dependency gets in the way of the infinite possibilities that exist.
And if we want to frame that in
promise terms,
that's usually going to be an if-then kind of statement: If we can clear our emotional
dependency, then we can manifest
these infinite possibilities. So claim and promise -- you can see that they're saying the same thing
there, just stated in different forms.
Now if we look at the lecture, will find that the claim of the lecture is
best stated right here in this in this line: "Only when you can lose on the ego level where you exert force
can you gain or win on the level of creation and power to form a good life."
So where did this claim come from? Well it comes from the end, and
that's generally where you want to go when you're trying to answer this first question--
What is the claim or promise?-- you want to go to the title first of all and see if you can sort it out
from there, and then go directly to the last couple of paragraphs.
Not the Q&A, not the questions and answers, but the last couple of paragraphs of the lecture.
90% of the time the claim is going to be stated very clearly in
that last part of the lecture, and
it's also stated in the promise format here. Also at the very end of the lecture in those last two or three paragraphs, and
the promise format here, is: "Whatever it is you find you need from others,
verbalize it concisely to yourself. This will bring you nearer to letting go.
You'll become free as you let free." You can see how it's
essentially saying the same thing. Once you understand all the concepts, you'll see that they these are equivalent statements
they're just put in different forms.
And now the the other part of question one is
extremely important: and why does this matter? Why does this topic matter? And
the reason I chose this particular lecture
to illustrate this process is that
this is a
foundational lecture, and this material really matters.
We are creating our own troubles and suffering, and
we need not do this, essentially.
So that's why this matters. We understand the claim and the promise.
At this point we now have the the lecture somewhat framed in very broad terms in
our minds, so we can go now to the next question, which
is what
concepts or truths--
let me scroll up a little bit--
What concepts are truths form the foundation of the claim or promise and make it possible?
So these are what are called warrants in
argument or rhetoric, and those are those
general statements of a belief or
truth
sometimes they're assumptions that really are
the bedrock of the argument as a whole. So in this particular case
we have a
number, I've chosen five here, five
essential concepts or truths that are stated in the lecture that the whole argument
relies upon. So first of all, creation is infinite in its possibilities.
Next, in the depths of our being we have the potential to realize these possibilities.
Nothing new ever comes into existence.
So with these statements you can see something already.
They're very general statements of truth or principle-- some people would say that they're assumptions,
so
how is that different from the claim? Well the claim or the promise is very specific; it's talking about how
these infinite possibilities relate to our emotional dependency.
And that's the difference between a claim or promise, and
the
more
broadly stated
truths or warrants of the argument.
But we need these truths to ground ourselves in these truths to really be able to grasp the more specific argument.
Also, everything already exists as a
potentiality that can be made manifest when "specific obstructions are eliminated."
That's also an essential concept or truth here for this argument.
Also, whatever possibility you can conceive of, you can realize.
And stated in another way: you cannot bring something to life if you cannot first conceive of it. So these five
warrants or truths or concepts,
general statements, they are the
the foundational conceptual material of the entire lecture so we really kind of need to make sure that we have
identified these and
are able to
to grasp them and open to them in order to
fully be able to receive the lecture in its entirety.
I also make a note here. There's a difference between
core Pathwork principles that show up in the lecture and
these underlying truths or warrants for the argument. For example, in this lecture it talks a lot about
pleasure. "Man cannot live without pleasure."
"To deny pleasure is to deny life," or
another
assumption here or principle that stated is: "If energy is used in its natural correct meaningful way it never
exhausts itself." Now, these are core Pathwork principles,
but they are not core concepts or truths for this particular argument.
So I just want to make that clear here, that there's -- there is -- a difference between those and they're both important.
But we're mostly wanting to focus
in this process, in our seven step process,
we want to focus on these these
these truths that are foundational to the argument or lecture being presented. So our next question is:
What key terms and concepts are stated and/or defined
again, like,
as we said before, sometimes things are stated
but they're not defined, and in this case we want to make sure that that we capture as many of these as
possible. These key terms and concepts
will sometimes be specific to a lecture, and other times they will be
concepts and terms that
come about
repeatedly through
many lectures.
So let's go through these.
Healthy unfoldment follows the creation of the healthy personality. That shows up in many lectures.
Defending yourself against negative possibilities is negative motivation.
This does not, this does not necessarily mean destructive
intent.
So, this is one of those those definitions that show up in this lecture
that we need to really make sure that we understand. Negative motivation is a lot different than destructive intent, so
being able to discern those is essential for us to be able to
be able to grasp and apply the material of the lecture.
Also negative motivation applies to all levels of your personality: mental, emotional, physical.
Fear of happiness is based on ignorance. That's a
key term and concept, a key concept that's
stated here in this lecture also. And that every human harbors an attitude of fear and weakness that induces a strong shame.
That's a very important concept for this lecture.
And in this next one, sort of bridging into question four, but hiding this part of us,
this attitude of fear and weakness, is
what compels us to sell out to betray ourselves to avoid disapproval and rejection.
And as we go into the next question
we'll get more deeply into that. Also in this lecture the concept of forcing current is
mentioned. It's not defined here and
it is in a lot of other lectures, but in this case it's just basically
forcing self-will, that's what forcing current is, and
particular to this lecture it talks about
how we use forcing current to make demands on others. And we can paraphrase that as:
"You must." You must do this; you must do that.
And also, this is hugely important in
this lecture and for Pathwork as a whole,
that self responsibility here is defined.
But it defined in a very broad and balanced way in that self-
responsibility includes being responsible for negative feelings, which we're very used to in the Pathwork, that (you know) we understand like okay
understand that I'm responsible for my negative feelings: finding them, feeling them, and so forth. However,
this lecture also rightly points out of course that
it's also our
self responsibility to -- self responsibility also includes our right and
possibility to create happiness.
So without that, without that balance, we will not really grasp the fullness of self responsibility and
will be somewhat obstructed in
in our work.
Okay, so question number 4:
How are we staying stuck or ignorant or limited? And again, these are general questions that can be applied to
every lecture, and that's why I'm using
different words here because they might
apply differently in different lectures. Another way to ask the same question is: why are we getting negative results? And in this particular lecture?
this particular lecture it states, well, we betray our real selves.
Whenever we hide or attempt to hide or wish to hide -- even from ourselves--
that part of us that-- where we're afraid and feel weak--
that's a betrayal, and so then we submit, placate, please. And
in the process we lose self-respect because our real self is is aware of this going on, and
so there's a part of us that distrusts ourselves, and we end up fearing ourselves and a vicious circle
gets created here.
And, so that's one of the ways that we stay stuck.
Also very specific to this lecture:
We stay stuck because we do not know or do not want to know that we are no longer helpless and dependent on our parents.
and
Furthermore we deny the intense pleasure of being, and
We look for fulfillment outside of ourselves.
So, I'm hoping you can see the value in
Separating things out like this, right? When we really look at what the lecture is telling us about
how we are staying stuck and we break it down this way it becomes
much more
connected to the overall
point of of the lecture or really helps us understand how this works. So let's look at
the last question, which is of course
obviously going to be the next one: well how do we get unstuck?
Again separating these two things out, that's why there are two separate questions.
It's very important. We need to understand first of all-- Well, how are we doing this?
Secondly we need to understand: how do we not do this? How can we do something different?
The lecture makes it very clear that we first of all need to understand how this all works, and
how and why we create emotional dependence, and
we also need to understand and accept that we're not dependent and helpless, and
this is where we now come back to
the promise. And the lectures work like-- this right they start off with
the claim in the title and then it develops that and
the promise-- they're all there, and then it gets restated at the end as it comes full-circle. So here at the end
the promise is telling us how to get unstuck right?
"Whatever it is you need from others,
verbalize it concisely to yourself." Really verbalize it; be clear on what it is, be able to state it, and
this will bring you nearer to letting go.
"You will become free as
you let free."
And also, really important in this lecture, we
free ourselves, we get unstuck
by giving ourselves permission to establish and
Utilize the source of all pleasure deep within us.
So
those are
The answers here-- or my set of answers for these five questions for this lecture.
Let's go back and look again at the process so we can see how this all fits together.
Okay, so these are those five, the five questions again. We've gone through them, and now the process is that we, you know,
we've had these five questions next to us as we go through the lecture, and
we then answer these questions in order.
It's important to do them in order because of the way that the the argument is constructed, and
it's also important, though, that we skip through the lecture at times to find what we need, and
then we're going to
go through and really contemplate on those answers to the first two questions, the ones about the the claim as well as the
warrant, right, what's
the specific thing that the lecture is about. And secondly, what are the general things,
general truths, that the
lecture is about? And then we want to look at our
answers to question 3, which is all about the concepts and principles that are
presented and sometimes defined. We need to make sure that we really understand those, and
we also want to take a look at these answers that we came up with for questions 4 and 4. Right?
How are we staying stuck or
limited, and how do we
become free; how do we replace vicious circles with benign circles.
And now once we've finished that process we can really read the lecture this time from start to finish.
And we're going to take notes because it's going to be different now because we have mapped out
the
lecture's full argument, and so now we're going to be able to receive it in a new way.
We'll get new and different and deeper insights
when we're able to approach the lecture from a place of knowing
instead of being somewhat, perhaps
confused or uncertain, or you know maybe resistant because it's so much material.
Breaking things down in this way will lessen our resistance to
going through the lecture and finding what we need to understand and what we need to do. So
the end of this process is of course
to now set an intention for ourselves around the material. How do we, how do we activate
this knowing? How do we activate
the truth; how do we activate our connection to our real self around this material?
I truly do hope that this process will serve you, and like I said, I'm very open to any questions you might have.
You can get in touch with me. I will also make
the
annotated version of lecture #157
available to all those who want it -- my annotated version--
and so thank you for watching this video and
I wish you all the best on your path. Please reach out if you have questions about this. Thank you so much.
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