October 2019 - Fourth Way Today

The Processes of Healing and Regeneration

Suffering can be real. [However,] when certain intense negative emotions come you can do only one thing: you must try to remember yourself. But for this you have to be prepared; it is quite a special thing. – P. D. Ouspensky, A Further Record Among the descriptions of the six processes in the works of Rodney Collin, he […]

by Walther Sell

Regeneration —Yin, Yang and the Yellow Woman

Regeneration among the Six Processes The word ‘regeneration’ implies a re-engendering, a re-creation. It implies that something was first created naturally, and is now to be re-created a second time by will, intention and purpose. It implies a second birth. — Rodney Collin. The Law of Three refers to the concept that three forces–an active, passive […]

by Ruth Atkins

Fourth Way Quotes on the Six Processes

The following quotes on the six processes by Fourth Way authors P. D. Ouspensky and Rodney Collin describe the processes in terms of the combinations of forces that produce them. Quotes on the Six Processes by Rodney Collin The Process of Growth The process of growth is that which, on a universal scale, creates the […]

by Andreea Federspiel-Otelea

How Clarity on the Six Processes Helps our Evolution

The author, a nurse and practitioner of the Fourth Way, describes how healing and recovery can involve each and every one of the six processes. For an overview of the six processes, see https://fourthwaytoday.org/the-six-cosmic-processes/. Healing and the Six Processes It’s been 25 years since I set foot for the first time in a hospital, at […]

by Rowena Taylor

Opening Thoughts on the Six Cosmic Processes

The Fourth Way school that is the Fellowship of Friends[1] studies the six cosmic processes outlined by Peter Ouspensky in A Record of Meetings and A Further Record. His student, Rodney Collin, described the six processes in detail in The Theory of Celestial Influence, written after Ouspensky’s death. Collin notes that this is not a new idea: The principle that six […]

by Walther Sell

Negative Emotions as the Process of Crime

This article describes how negative emotions manifest as an example of one of the six cosmic processes: the process of Crime, or Disease. The Law of Three is one of the treasures of Fourth Way knowledge. The more one becomes aware of oneself in daily life, the more this concept provides a way to understand […]

by Michael Lester

The Significance of the Process of Regeneration

Sacred Among the Six Processes This article describes how the six processes act, in terms of their foundational combinations of forces. The significance of the process of regeneration is noted, as it alone is able to create new life, new being. A marvelous fluidity and dimension unfold over the course of one’s experience of organic […]

by Benjamin B

Six Cosmic Processes and the Principle of Payment

What are the six cosmic processes? Fourth Way authors alert us to the fact that all phenomena are created by two laws, the Law of Three and the Law of Seven, and the concept of a cosmos[1]. The Law of Three, Producing Triads The Law of Three states that for each phenomenon to occur, there […]