LIFE. IT EXISTS FOR HIM AND WITHOUT HIM IT COULD NOT FUNCTION. MAN'S LIFE HAS NO ULTIMATE, ABIDING VALUE, UNLESS HE REALIZES THIS FACT. WHAT IS A MAN PROFITED', ASKED JESUS, 'IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE OR FORFEIT HIS OWN SOUL? '"'

THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS FOR MAN

FROM HIS STUDIES OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE SAGES, AS WELL AS FROM HIS OWN EXPERIENCE, MR. ZEFF HAS DETERMINED THAT TRUE HAPPINESS LIES ONLY IN SELF-DISCOVERY, THIS SELF-DISCOVERY MAY BE REACHED THROUGH PSYCHOANALYSIS, IN THIS PROCESS MR. ZEFF HAS PINPOINTED THREE DISTINCT PHASES THROUGH WHICH THE PATIENT JOURNEYS: THE "WHY DOES LIFE TREAT ME LIKE THIS?" FHASE; "HOW LONG, MY GOD, HOW LONG?" FHASE, AND THE "IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE" PHASE.

THE FIRST PHASE RESULTS FROM THE FACT THE PATIENT HAS EXTERNAL I ZED THE SOURCE OF HIS DIFFICULTIES AND HE MUST WORK TO DISCOVER THAT THE REAL SOURCE LIES WITHIN. THAT, AS HE PUTS IT, HE HAS BEEN LIVING THE LIFE OF THE EGO EXCLUSIVELY AND THUS HAS BECOME SEPARATED FROM THIS REAL NATURE OR SELF.

THE SECOND PHASE FOLLOWS THIS REALIZATION AND INVOLVES A LONG AND ARDUOUS TASK OF DISCOVERING THE SELF AND LEARNING TO LIVE OUT OF IT INSTEAD OF OUT OF THE EGO.

WHEN THE PATIENT HAS FINALLY MERGED WITH THE SELF AND IS EXPERIENCING THE FRUITS OF HIS LABORS HE HAS REACHED THE LAST STAGE BECAUSE, WHEN HE LOOKS BACK OVER HIS TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN THE PROCESS HE BECOMES AWARE THAT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED HAD TO HAPPEN JUST AS IT DID OR HE WOULD NEVER HAVE REACHED THIS PERSPECTIVE.

"IF I COULD SUMMARIZE MANY YEARS OF SHARING THIS EXPERIENCE WITH PEOPLE IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS: UNHAPPY PEOPLE CAME IN WITH THEMSELVES AS THEY WERE, YET REJECTING THE GREATEST PORTION OF WHAT THEY WERE. THEY CONFRONTED THEMSELVES, LEARNED TO ACCEPT THEMSELVES AND TO RECONCILE THEMSELVES TO ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND EVENTS. THEY LEARNED TO SACRIFICE THEIR OWN WILL IN FAVOR OF A GREATER POWER OR FORCE WITHIN, THEREBY COMING TO UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL PARADOX OF LIFE, THAT IT IS BY DYING (SACRIFICING THE EGO AS SOLE INFLUENCE) THAT ONE AWAKENS TO ETERNAL LIFE (REALIZES THE SELF). THIS BECOMES THE SAME THING AS 'REALIZING GOD', BE-

24