Views from the Real World: Working in a School

How does work in a Fourth Way school connect us to the Real World? Can we find a more real world? I first connected to the Fourth Way school at ‘Apollo’ twenty-two years ago. It was around this time that the teacher began to radiate his guidance widely again. We still work to explore the […]

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ideal state, Plato, Fellowship of Friends

Working Towards the Ideal State

Working within the Fourth Way towards an ideal state, my soul grows up. It rests on a steward that aspires to balance the functions of the four lower centers.  A true steward works from the intellectual part of the emotional center. This part is now my acquired center of gravity, from where my work on self-remembering springs. […]

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sleep and awakening, FourthWayToday.org, Robert Earl Burton, Robert Burton, Fellowship of Friends

Awakening with the Help of a School

The author describes how, in a school of awakening, one uses methods to develop a steward to empower ‘Real I.’ We may wonder each moment, where are we going? When this question touches on our need for divine guidance, it can be a moment of awakening.  Gurdjieff writes that all phenomena in life arise from […]

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level of being or change of being

The Courage to Know Thyself

How does one change level of being? First, by knowing oneself. “Self-remembering needs the best work you can produce, so the more centers that take part in it the better the result… But if you put all centers to the work there is nothing that can stop it… Permanent ‘I’ has quite different functions, quite a […]

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