Core Energetics South Newsletter
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Core Energetics South Newsletter
A Tribute to John C. Pierrakos MD
February 2006
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Index
-- My Healing Journey with John Pierrakos: Learning to Love
-- Seeds From the Core - Johns' Quotes
-- Pam's New Book - & - Exercise Classes Now on DVD
-- Say Yes to Your Life!
Dear K'La,
This issue of the Core South Newsletter is dedicated to John C. Pierrakos, MD, founder of the Core Energetics Evolutionary Process on the occasion of what would have been his 85th birthday this month and the fifth anniversary of his death Jan 30, 2001.
On January 30th, sitting at my desk trying to work on my book project, I felt a certain vague melancholy much of the morning. I soon realized that it was the anniversary of my dear friend and mentor John Pierrakos’ death. And in a few days it would be the anniversary of his birth. (This year John would have been 85). I then gave myself permission to put aside my project and allow my feelings and memories. I was then in my flow and my day got easier and deeper. It was then I decided to dedicate this newsletter to John. The following are some of my expereinces spanning over 30 years of knowing John. It's a bit long but if you want to know more about John (and me), I think you will like it.
Thank you John, I am ever grateful.
My Healing Journey with John Pierrakos: Learning to Love
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was 1969. I was in pastoral training program in Washington DC, young, scared, numb, the mother of three young boys and in a bad marriage. I was desperately trying to come alive out of my numbness. And seeking God somehow. I was studying holistic spiritual counseling. My friends Ann and Danny, heard that John Pierrakos, a holistic and spiritual psychiatrist, was giving a workshop in Massachusetts. John had a reputation for seeing and doing things that others could not – seeing energy for example. His work was known to be strong, deep and to the point. We jumped into Danny’s truck and arrived late that night. Next morning, as we sat in a circle, my heart pounded louder the closer to my turn it was. All I remember was that I was terrified. When I spoke all I could say was – “I’m scared”. John was the last person to speak. He looked directly at me and said, “I’m scared too.” What a relief! The eminent psychiatrist was scared. It must be OK for me to be afraid too.
The next time I saw John was in Phoenicia, NY, at The Center of the New Age of Man. (Later to become The Phoenicia Pathwork Center). My pastoral training class was there to do a training workshop with him. In the group I hesitated, fearful, until the last moment. Finally I volunteered to work. I needed help to come alive.
As part of the process of Bioenergetics and Core Energetics, John had me work with my body on a mattress – kicking, hitting and yelling. I felt better. Relieved. Then, near the end of my session, a moment came when John leaned over my face and looked deeply into my eyes. I immediately and spontaneously wept. In that instant I knew that I had never been looked at with such love by my mother. It was both terribly painful and healing. I suddenly had hope. “Such love exists” my heart said, “This love can heal me.”
I knew then that I would continue my work with John to heal my pain and open myself more fully to love. I did not know then that my relationship with him would span over three decades, and transform my life. I could not have imagined that John Pierrakos would become my therapist, mentor, colleague and most recently my good friend.
John co-created Bioenergetics Analysis with Alexander Lowen, MD. He was just beginning to create Core Energetics when I began to study in professional groups with him several times a year. I continued learning in this way for ten years. It would be many more years before Core Energetics had an official training program. These early years was a tremendously exciting time to be involved in this process. I knew John, before he met and married Eva. Their love and connection expanded and unified both of their work. Eva’s spiritual Pathwork and John’s body oriented Core Energetics integrated as their relationship unified with each other and with God.
John used his knowledge of the human energy field and the chakras to assist him in helping people heal. Back in the 70’s this was very innovative. John was able to see and perceive the human energy field and the chakras. John taught us to perceive and measure energy and to understand the psychodynamics the measurements indicated, as he was making those discoveries himself. The medical profession was not yet ready for his teachings, John told me one day when I asked why he wasn’t speaking about what he knew at medical meetings. It would take another 15 years for the world to seek John’s knowledge. At the end of his life John had professional Core Energetics International Training programs in Europe, South America, United States, Canada and Australia.
One could only become a patient of John’s if he accepted you. I asked him on two separate occasions a year apart before he agreed to work with me. I then worked with John for ten years traveling once a month to New York from Virginia for a two hour session. A session with John was worth months of therapy elsewhere. The sessions consisted of deep bodywork and equally deep analysis of where I was holding back my Life Force and why. John taught me how to work with my mask – (false self) , my wounded ness – (my lower self), and the divine nature of my human being, - (my higher self or Core self).
John taught me that I could not fully experience my spiritual core until I worked to uncover the way I cheated my life force -- the way I held back my true self. He asked me, “How do you kill your Life Force? How do you kill your loving feelings?” By asking that he meant how did I stop my energy flow. I was the one who stopped it now and I could not blame anyone else, past or present. John would tell his students, "The tragedy is not what happened to you as a child, the tragedy is that you can not give or receive love now."
John showed me that in order to experience my divine spiritual nature I must uncover and expose my hidden wounds and express my negative feelings fully. John taught me to look for my distortions about life; how I drew negativities to myself, and how to work toward changing that. He taught me that I was the creator of my own reality and that I must take 100% responsibility for my life , and that by doing so I would experience a most wonderful freedom. John taught me to risk opening my heart to give love and accept love, and that I must make moment to moment choices to keep opening to love even when the going got rough. John taught me that I am a divine being, a women of God.
After I was certified as a Bioenergetics Therapist I continued working with John. My life had changed dramatically for the better. I felt good most of the time. Stronger. Healthier. I had better relationships and more love in my life. I learned to forgive my parents for being human. No, they were not perfect, but they were divine. I apprenticed with John for 20 years as I followed him to workshops and classes, watching and listening. I became a Core Energetics Therapist and later an international trainer, because I observed and came to know, that helping people in this way was the most exciting rewarding service I could imagine.
John walked his talk. He did his work and asked for help when he needed to. John taught that in a therapeutic relationship both people are learning and neither is better or worse than the other. John taught that working through the heart and connecting from core to core is the best way to assist someone.
John Pierrakos was a genius with a heart. He was a pioneer in the holistic practice of medicine and psychology. He is known worldwide for being the first western psychiatrist to bridge psychology and spirituality. He taught me that love is the only energy in the universe. Everything else is a distortion - a cry for love. John taught me to surrender to my body, and to be human as well as divine.
John taught me to stay the course, and not to believe in my demons - the ones who want to keep me stuck, but to believe in my core, my higher self and my spiritual longings. Most importantly he taught me that life is a spiritual evolutionary process. That everything, (especially the most difficult challenges), is an opportunity for me to become more conscious.
As I teach Core Energetics, I especially pray to embody John’s basic teachings about love and the importance of working with our bodies to gain health.
My life's work is to help people love and heal. I am grateful to John for his teaching so that I may pass on his loving energy to others. Thank you John. God speed.
Seeds From the Core - Johns' Quotes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Pierrakos was a loving, passionate man who lived his work and loved everyone he worked with. He was on an energetic mission to help his clients and students transform their lower selves, negative energies so they could feel and act from their divine nature. John knew that all movement was toward the evolution of the human spirit. To bring more consciousness to someones' life so that they could feel the God that dwells inside, was his daily pleasure.
John worked with his heart wide open and had an energetic chest of precision tools. Sometimes it appeared that he was a surgeon using a sharp scalpel to penetrate and open up someones' negative beliefs, and stuck body energy, in order to assist them to find and embrace their true self, and to become more alive.
The following quotes are taken from Johns' lectures, and writings. I have given you a few of my favorites. Hard to pick because he said so many wonderful inspiring words of wisdom.
On Core Energy "Spiritual life does not flower until a person's energies can flow freely from and into the core."
"Control of energy is not self possession, but self imprisonment."
On The Mask (False Self)
"The mask acts like a defensive shroud to make the inner self invisible to both the outside world and to the self."
"The 'self' is furiously preoccupied with simply staying afloat, and may have to flounder before realizing that the ship must be rebuilt if it is to sail freely."
"The mask dampens the vibrancy and buoyancy of the life center."
On The Lower Self
"Negative emotion will emerge in devious ways when it is denied recognition."
"It is a beautiful thing to see anger erupting freely in defense against oppression."
"If we close off negative feelings, we stop our creative process."
On Higher Self
"The higher self is in touch with our deep truth and has compassion for the lower self and mask."
"The core is the spirituality of all things."
On Pleasure
"The human entity desires and fears pleasure."
Pleasure is the full pulsation of life."
"Pleasure is the antidote to pain."
On Pain
"Pain results when the energy flow is blocked."
"The medicine for pain is to feel pleasure."
"If people give themselves the right to have pleasure, it equalizes their life."
On Eros
"As long as one believed there is always something new and seeks for it, Eros lives."
"Eros is like an angel that comes to you when your energy is open."
"To reveal your soul to another, Eros is nurtured and transformed constantly into love."
On Sexuality
"Sexuality can express the beauty that exists in each human being."
"Tenderness, gentleness, and caring that are expressed sexually will also be expressed in work, play and in other human relations."
"Sex is the bridge between Eros and love."
On Love
"Love emerges spontaneously as the person removes the obstacles of misappropriated energy that stand in its way."
"To reach the state of love, one must first probe for its' distortions."
"The distortions of love are hate and separation."
"By discovering and accepting all there is about oneself, one creates the possibility of love."
"We can only reach our core of love by going in and through our level of hatred and negativity."
Love is a Choice
"We have to visualize loving the other person with the flaming jewel that's in the middle of our body."
"True love demands the intention and will to face the other person, in all his/her magnificent wholeness."
"True love demands the intent to keep exploring."
On The Soul
"There is no limit to the soul of any person."
"One could use a whole lifetime and still not encompass or understand the soul."
"The soul is alive not static and changes constantly."
On Unification
"The longing for the unification with one person is the first step towards unification with all of humanity."
Connecting to our inner truth is the only way toward the creation of a unified life."
"As people activate their spiritual selves, they become more able to deal with their obstructions."
On Peace and Politics
"Peace in our relationships, in our society, in our world will not come from rules, laws or armaments, but from a willingness to make a peace within ourselves."
And
"There are no shortcuts."
More About Core Energetics
Pam's New Book - & - Exercise Classes Now on DVD
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome to the World: How and Why You Came to Earth
My new Little spiritual book for young children and the adults who love them is now available.
From the back cover:
"A refreshing look at how we came to earth...for kids and grownups."
"Gather your children, snuggle in bed with them and read this book. Then turn off the lights, expand your mind and let the magic happen."
Psycho-Spiritual-Exercise Class now Available on DVD
Pams' Core Energetics Exercise Classes are designed to support and inspire you to work with the Core Energetics concepts at home. The DVD is an interactive class. To do , not to watch.
Woman Spirit soon on CD!
Woman Spirit Pams' audio book for Coming of Age Girls, will soon be on CD. You may order all the above by going to Product page on the Core Energetics South website.
Passages to Womanhood:Empowering Girls to Love Themselves
Pams' new book about mentoring and celebrating Girls and young women - spiritual, energetic, and earthy - will be out this spring. Stay tuned!
Welcome to the World: How and Why Your Came to Earth
Say Yes to Your Life!
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I would love to hear from you about Core South's newsletter. I am happy to receive feedback. Please let me know what topic/s you want to read about in a future issue.
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Every day Say Yes to Your Life!
With Blessings for your journey,
Pam
Say Yes to Your Life!
Contact Information
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email: plchubbuck@msn.com
phone: 770-388-0086
web: http://www.core-energetics-south.com
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Core Energetics South Newsletter
A Tribute to John C. Pierrakos MD
February 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Index
-- My Healing Journey with John Pierrakos: Learning to Love
-- Seeds From the Core - Johns' Quotes
-- Pam's New Book - & - Exercise Classes Now on DVD
-- Say Yes to Your Life!
Dear K'La,
This issue of the Core South Newsletter is dedicated to John C. Pierrakos, MD, founder of the Core Energetics Evolutionary Process on the occasion of what would have been his 85th birthday this month and the fifth anniversary of his death Jan 30, 2001.
On January 30th, sitting at my desk trying to work on my book project, I felt a certain vague melancholy much of the morning. I soon realized that it was the anniversary of my dear friend and mentor John Pierrakos’ death. And in a few days it would be the anniversary of his birth. (This year John would have been 85). I then gave myself permission to put aside my project and allow my feelings and memories. I was then in my flow and my day got easier and deeper. It was then I decided to dedicate this newsletter to John. The following are some of my expereinces spanning over 30 years of knowing John. It's a bit long but if you want to know more about John (and me), I think you will like it.
Thank you John, I am ever grateful.
My Healing Journey with John Pierrakos: Learning to Love
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was 1969. I was in pastoral training program in Washington DC, young, scared, numb, the mother of three young boys and in a bad marriage. I was desperately trying to come alive out of my numbness. And seeking God somehow. I was studying holistic spiritual counseling. My friends Ann and Danny, heard that John Pierrakos, a holistic and spiritual psychiatrist, was giving a workshop in Massachusetts. John had a reputation for seeing and doing things that others could not – seeing energy for example. His work was known to be strong, deep and to the point. We jumped into Danny’s truck and arrived late that night. Next morning, as we sat in a circle, my heart pounded louder the closer to my turn it was. All I remember was that I was terrified. When I spoke all I could say was – “I’m scared”. John was the last person to speak. He looked directly at me and said, “I’m scared too.” What a relief! The eminent psychiatrist was scared. It must be OK for me to be afraid too.
The next time I saw John was in Phoenicia, NY, at The Center of the New Age of Man. (Later to become The Phoenicia Pathwork Center). My pastoral training class was there to do a training workshop with him. In the group I hesitated, fearful, until the last moment. Finally I volunteered to work. I needed help to come alive.
As part of the process of Bioenergetics and Core Energetics, John had me work with my body on a mattress – kicking, hitting and yelling. I felt better. Relieved. Then, near the end of my session, a moment came when John leaned over my face and looked deeply into my eyes. I immediately and spontaneously wept. In that instant I knew that I had never been looked at with such love by my mother. It was both terribly painful and healing. I suddenly had hope. “Such love exists” my heart said, “This love can heal me.”
I knew then that I would continue my work with John to heal my pain and open myself more fully to love. I did not know then that my relationship with him would span over three decades, and transform my life. I could not have imagined that John Pierrakos would become my therapist, mentor, colleague and most recently my good friend.
John co-created Bioenergetics Analysis with Alexander Lowen, MD. He was just beginning to create Core Energetics when I began to study in professional groups with him several times a year. I continued learning in this way for ten years. It would be many more years before Core Energetics had an official training program. These early years was a tremendously exciting time to be involved in this process. I knew John, before he met and married Eva. Their love and connection expanded and unified both of their work. Eva’s spiritual Pathwork and John’s body oriented Core Energetics integrated as their relationship unified with each other and with God.
John used his knowledge of the human energy field and the chakras to assist him in helping people heal. Back in the 70’s this was very innovative. John was able to see and perceive the human energy field and the chakras. John taught us to perceive and measure energy and to understand the psychodynamics the measurements indicated, as he was making those discoveries himself. The medical profession was not yet ready for his teachings, John told me one day when I asked why he wasn’t speaking about what he knew at medical meetings. It would take another 15 years for the world to seek John’s knowledge. At the end of his life John had professional Core Energetics International Training programs in Europe, South America, United States, Canada and Australia.
One could only become a patient of John’s if he accepted you. I asked him on two separate occasions a year apart before he agreed to work with me. I then worked with John for ten years traveling once a month to New York from Virginia for a two hour session. A session with John was worth months of therapy elsewhere. The sessions consisted of deep bodywork and equally deep analysis of where I was holding back my Life Force and why. John taught me how to work with my mask – (false self) , my wounded ness – (my lower self), and the divine nature of my human being, - (my higher self or Core self).
John taught me that I could not fully experience my spiritual core until I worked to uncover the way I cheated my life force -- the way I held back my true self. He asked me, “How do you kill your Life Force? How do you kill your loving feelings?” By asking that he meant how did I stop my energy flow. I was the one who stopped it now and I could not blame anyone else, past or present. John would tell his students, "The tragedy is not what happened to you as a child, the tragedy is that you can not give or receive love now."
John showed me that in order to experience my divine spiritual nature I must uncover and expose my hidden wounds and express my negative feelings fully. John taught me to look for my distortions about life; how I drew negativities to myself, and how to work toward changing that. He taught me that I was the creator of my own reality and that I must take 100% responsibility for my life , and that by doing so I would experience a most wonderful freedom. John taught me to risk opening my heart to give love and accept love, and that I must make moment to moment choices to keep opening to love even when the going got rough. John taught me that I am a divine being, a women of God.
After I was certified as a Bioenergetics Therapist I continued working with John. My life had changed dramatically for the better. I felt good most of the time. Stronger. Healthier. I had better relationships and more love in my life. I learned to forgive my parents for being human. No, they were not perfect, but they were divine. I apprenticed with John for 20 years as I followed him to workshops and classes, watching and listening. I became a Core Energetics Therapist and later an international trainer, because I observed and came to know, that helping people in this way was the most exciting rewarding service I could imagine.
John walked his talk. He did his work and asked for help when he needed to. John taught that in a therapeutic relationship both people are learning and neither is better or worse than the other. John taught that working through the heart and connecting from core to core is the best way to assist someone.
John Pierrakos was a genius with a heart. He was a pioneer in the holistic practice of medicine and psychology. He is known worldwide for being the first western psychiatrist to bridge psychology and spirituality. He taught me that love is the only energy in the universe. Everything else is a distortion - a cry for love. John taught me to surrender to my body, and to be human as well as divine.
John taught me to stay the course, and not to believe in my demons - the ones who want to keep me stuck, but to believe in my core, my higher self and my spiritual longings. Most importantly he taught me that life is a spiritual evolutionary process. That everything, (especially the most difficult challenges), is an opportunity for me to become more conscious.
As I teach Core Energetics, I especially pray to embody John’s basic teachings about love and the importance of working with our bodies to gain health.
My life's work is to help people love and heal. I am grateful to John for his teaching so that I may pass on his loving energy to others. Thank you John. God speed.
Seeds From the Core - Johns' Quotes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Pierrakos was a loving, passionate man who lived his work and loved everyone he worked with. He was on an energetic mission to help his clients and students transform their lower selves, negative energies so they could feel and act from their divine nature. John knew that all movement was toward the evolution of the human spirit. To bring more consciousness to someones' life so that they could feel the God that dwells inside, was his daily pleasure.
John worked with his heart wide open and had an energetic chest of precision tools. Sometimes it appeared that he was a surgeon using a sharp scalpel to penetrate and open up someones' negative beliefs, and stuck body energy, in order to assist them to find and embrace their true self, and to become more alive.
The following quotes are taken from Johns' lectures, and writings. I have given you a few of my favorites. Hard to pick because he said so many wonderful inspiring words of wisdom.
On Core Energy "Spiritual life does not flower until a person's energies can flow freely from and into the core."
"Control of energy is not self possession, but self imprisonment."
On The Mask (False Self)
"The mask acts like a defensive shroud to make the inner self invisible to both the outside world and to the self."
"The 'self' is furiously preoccupied with simply staying afloat, and may have to flounder before realizing that the ship must be rebuilt if it is to sail freely."
"The mask dampens the vibrancy and buoyancy of the life center."
On The Lower Self
"Negative emotion will emerge in devious ways when it is denied recognition."
"It is a beautiful thing to see anger erupting freely in defense against oppression."
"If we close off negative feelings, we stop our creative process."
On Higher Self
"The higher self is in touch with our deep truth and has compassion for the lower self and mask."
"The core is the spirituality of all things."
On Pleasure
"The human entity desires and fears pleasure."
Pleasure is the full pulsation of life."
"Pleasure is the antidote to pain."
On Pain
"Pain results when the energy flow is blocked."
"The medicine for pain is to feel pleasure."
"If people give themselves the right to have pleasure, it equalizes their life."
On Eros
"As long as one believed there is always something new and seeks for it, Eros lives."
"Eros is like an angel that comes to you when your energy is open."
"To reveal your soul to another, Eros is nurtured and transformed constantly into love."
On Sexuality
"Sexuality can express the beauty that exists in each human being."
"Tenderness, gentleness, and caring that are expressed sexually will also be expressed in work, play and in other human relations."
"Sex is the bridge between Eros and love."
On Love
"Love emerges spontaneously as the person removes the obstacles of misappropriated energy that stand in its way."
"To reach the state of love, one must first probe for its' distortions."
"The distortions of love are hate and separation."
"By discovering and accepting all there is about oneself, one creates the possibility of love."
"We can only reach our core of love by going in and through our level of hatred and negativity."
Love is a Choice
"We have to visualize loving the other person with the flaming jewel that's in the middle of our body."
"True love demands the intention and will to face the other person, in all his/her magnificent wholeness."
"True love demands the intent to keep exploring."
On The Soul
"There is no limit to the soul of any person."
"One could use a whole lifetime and still not encompass or understand the soul."
"The soul is alive not static and changes constantly."
On Unification
"The longing for the unification with one person is the first step towards unification with all of humanity."
Connecting to our inner truth is the only way toward the creation of a unified life."
"As people activate their spiritual selves, they become more able to deal with their obstructions."
On Peace and Politics
"Peace in our relationships, in our society, in our world will not come from rules, laws or armaments, but from a willingness to make a peace within ourselves."
And
"There are no shortcuts."
More About Core Energetics
Pam's New Book - & - Exercise Classes Now on DVD
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome to the World: How and Why You Came to Earth
My new Little spiritual book for young children and the adults who love them is now available.
From the back cover:
"A refreshing look at how we came to earth...for kids and grownups."
"Gather your children, snuggle in bed with them and read this book. Then turn off the lights, expand your mind and let the magic happen."
Psycho-Spiritual-Exercise Class now Available on DVD
Pams' Core Energetics Exercise Classes are designed to support and inspire you to work with the Core Energetics concepts at home. The DVD is an interactive class. To do , not to watch.
Woman Spirit soon on CD!
Woman Spirit Pams' audio book for Coming of Age Girls, will soon be on CD. You may order all the above by going to Product page on the Core Energetics South website.
Passages to Womanhood:Empowering Girls to Love Themselves
Pams' new book about mentoring and celebrating Girls and young women - spiritual, energetic, and earthy - will be out this spring. Stay tuned!
Welcome to the World: How and Why Your Came to Earth
Say Yes to Your Life!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I would love to hear from you about Core South's newsletter. I am happy to receive feedback. Please let me know what topic/s you want to read about in a future issue.
You may send this newsletter to a friend by clicking below.
I do not want to send spam. If you received this mailing in error and do not wish to receive this newsletter please click on unsubscribe below.
Every day Say Yes to Your Life!
With Blessings for your journey,
Pam
Say Yes to Your Life!
Contact Information
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: plchubbuck@msn.com
phone: 770-388-0086
web: http://www.core-energetics-south.com
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