No Matter How Ornate your Mask, your True Self is Much More Beautiful! My quest to bring back initiation began formally twelve years ago when I wrote the first article on the gatewaytogold blog. At that time, my life changed from freedom for me to freedom for all. Since then,…
By Cathy Eck Letting Go is Not a Belief System Letting go is NOT a belief system; it's an exit program (made up of a couple beliefs) that we insert into our OWN false mind in order to escape all other man-made belief systems. All beliefs systems are man made.…
By Cathy Eck The Rope Illusion Last week, my improv class was given an assignment. Half of the people lined up, one behind the other, on one side of the room; the other half lined up facing the first group on the other side of the room. We were told that…
By Cathy Eck Since holiday time is here, most people spend time with family and friends. If you don't celebrate holidays then you’ll be going to see “Big Eyes” and “Unbroken” at the theater with all the Jews like me. But if you're obligated to do family visits, it's likely…
By Cathy Eck Warning: This is a long one. I just didn't want to break it up into pieces. So put on your pajamas and get your popcorn. Roles and Power I was just watching a program on television that exposed methods used by sales people to trick customers into…
By Cathy Eck Competition and Comparison Competition is insanely normal in our life. Or perhaps, I should say insane and normal. We compete for jobs. Teams compete in all kinds of sports. Wanna be artists compete on reality television shows for record deals, modeling jobs, and the right to…
By Cathy Eck To Fall or Not to Fall; That is the Question Even if you are very non-religious, as I am, you have to realize that we live in a culture and marinate in a soup of beliefs that stem from the story of Adam and Eve. That…
By Cathy Eck Other Worldly Channels I bet you thought I was going to write about turning off your TV. Hell no! People put their creative ideas on television; and you and I have complete freedom to watch them or turn them off. I am an awful follower, but I'm…
By Cathy Eck A lot of spiritual teachers tell people to ask "Who Am I?" over and over again until they know the answer. It's an interesting question, but I'm not sure that the answers that people seem to get are helpful. Some seem to decide that they are…
By Cathy Eck We've All Got a Master and Slave Mindset about Something I recently watched a television program called "Slave Catchers, Slave Masters" on the history channel. The show was about how slaves managed to escape in America. It was all about the physical act of escaping. And…