The Enemy Within: Encountering And Conquering The Dark Side by Mark L. Prophet

by Elizabeth Clare Prophet

The dark side. The synthetic self. The not-self. The enemy within. There are many names for the part of us that sometimes sabotages our highest dreams and ideals. In each of us there is a collective consciousness of all our misdeeds--momentums of this life and many lifetimes. It is this consciousness that emerges as a pseudo-identity and causes us to do those things we so often regret. It has also been called the dweller on the threshold, because it hides at the threshold of self awareness, where the conscious and subconscious minds meet. The encounter with this enemy within has been vividly portrayed in works of literature such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--and also in modern movie masterpieces such as Star Wars. But for most of us, the encounter with the dweller on the threshold is less cataclysmic, for the enemy within is subtle and hopes we will not notice as it lurks in the shadows--like some phantom of the opera, occasionally emerging to cause havoc in our lives. From time to time, we contact the tip of the iceberg, but seldom see below the surface to know what we are really dealing with. In The Enemy Within, Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet remove the mask from the dweller-on-the-threshold. They bring a clear understanding and spiritual tools to help us deal with that enemy within. And they reveal the inner light as our true nature, what we can fully become when we have overcome the not-self.

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First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939-2009) was an author, teacher, messenger of the ascended masters and leader of The Summit Lighthouse—an internationally recognized spiritual center for the advancement of inner awakening and soul liberation. For decades Elizabeth's books have been front runners in the movement for individual union with God. Millions of copies have been sold worldwide and published in more than 30 languages.
Throughout her lifetime, Elizabeth Clare Prophet walked the path of spiritual adeptship, advancing through the universal initiations common to mystics of both East and West. She taught about this path and described her own experiences for the benefit of all who desire to make spiritual progress. She lectured across North and South America, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, the Philippines, Ghana, Liberia and India. With Her husband, Mark L. Prophet, she led pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Egypt and India.
Thousands of people from across the globe attended her four yearly conferences and hundreds of students learned spiritual teachings from her Summit University retreats. Her great desire was to share a spiritual path that would take true seekers, in the tradition of the mystical paths of the world's religions, as far as they could go and needed to go to meet their true teachers, the ascended masters, the archangels and their own Higher Self, face-to-face.
Her unpublished writings, lectures and dictations from the ascended masters continue to be released by Summit University Press.