How to use the Pathwork Guide Lectures Word Search

The window is divided into three frames. You can resize the frames by letting the cursor hover exactly on the border between two frames. It will change to a re-sizing cursor which you can drag to reposition the border. In the top frame you can click on the first letter of the word you want to search in the lectures. This will show the words beginning with that letter in the left frame. You can browse through the words by moving the grey scroll bar with your mouse, with the scroll button on your mouse or by using the 'page down' and 'page up' keys on your keyboard. Clicking 'next' or 'previous' in the left frame does not always mean you go to the next or previous letter. Some letters appear hardly ever at the beginning of a word (J, K for example) and are put together in one left frame and some appear very often (S) and are spread over two left frames. When you find the word you search for you can click on it.

The large frame on the right will display the word, highlighted in blue. You can read the context of the word as eight words before and eight words after the 'search word' are shown. The lines are ordered, starting with the first lecture in which the word appears and further downward you'll find more recent lectures (lectures with a higher number). Some words are used so often by the Guide that they are spread over more than one page so it is necessary to click on 'next' to see all occurrences. To the right you see in small capitals the lecture number and title in which the word appears.

Clicking on the lecture title will open the complete lecture in a new window and the word you searched for will appear in the first or the second line. There is only one exception and that is when the word appears in the very last part of the lecture which makes it impossible to be in the first or second line. You can then either search for the word with your own eyes or hold the 'ctrl-key' on your keyboard and press the 'f-key' once and then enter the word you search for. The word will now be highlighted. You can navigate through the lecture by scrolling or using the the' page-down' and 'page-up' keys on your keyboard. Enlarging the window is possible by clicking the enlargement button in the top right of your window (the central button of the three).

To get back from the lecture to the Word Search you can either click on the left Pathwork Guide Lectures 'button' at the bottom of your screen or hold the 'alt-key' on your keyboard and press the 'tab-key' twice. The next time you click on the same or a different lecture it will not open a new window but appear in the same window that was opened the first time. The second time the window will not automatically be shown to you: you can either click on the right Pathwork Guide Lectures 'button' at the bottom of your screen or hold the 'alt-key' on your keyboard and press the 'tab-key' twice.

Tips

The main disadvantage of using the Word Search is that you can search for only one word at a time and that you can't search for combinations of words. You can go to the Easy Search for that. If you want to search for 'psychic nuclear points' or 'subtle matter' in the Word Search you'll have to choose one of these words. You can then either search in the large frame for the second word by holding the 'ctrl-key'and pressing 'f' or just browse through the results to find what you're after. The Word Search has the advantage of bringing you to new search ideas as you browse it (tip 2). Thinking of all the combinations of the word 'self' is a privilege only for the enlightened, which your presence here indicates you are not. So look at 'self-' in the list (tip 3).

Use the Word Search if you want to read a lecture and aren't exactly sure which one. Starting with browsing through the Word Search can lead you to what you expected to find or lead you to a Guide's tale of the unexpected (tip 4).

The following words reveal that the Guide considers what he says very important and they are worth examining (tip 5): emphasize, remember, forget, seriously, utmost, beware, counts, recapitulate, season, crucial, all-important, remind, repeatedly, clue, emphasized, beg, indispensable, requirement, unthinkable, imperative, summarize, lookout.

When you are looking for a subject, try to broaden the scope of words (tip 6) by thinking, meditating, writing or using a dictionary like the Webster online (tip 6a) because often a lot of related words exist that are connected with your search. For example: if you search for the subject 'cause and effect' you might be helped by considering the following words: depends, prevent, produce, underlying, increase, outcome, arise, led, derive, formed, resulting, stems, stem, links, diminish, subsequent, induces, ramifications, producing, wake, subsequently, consequent, generated, stemming, strengthens, diminishes, lessen, ensuing, generates, furthers, products.

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