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The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions

Plato’s Ideal State: A Wordless Presence

Sometimes a wordless presence enters and shows us the ideal state we seek. Living at Plato’s Academy This is no theory. It happened to me. I was a 19-year old sophomore student at Stanford, living in a boarding house off campus called Plato’s Academy (that’s what we called it!). The time: circa 1963, during civil […]

What is the Difference between Being Asleep and Awake?

Imagine you know nothing about third or fourth states of consciousness. Only about the first and second states. Someone asks you: “What is the difference between being asleep and being awake?” How would you answer them? What’s Different about Being Awake? Truthfully, the main difference between being asleep in first state and being awake in second […]