If we are fortunate enough to attract higher influences, we may discover the change of state that comes with being helped ‘from above.’ A true school serves as a conduit for higher energies, higher forces.
When we work on ourselves in the Fourth Way, it is surprising to see how higher forces work with us, too. Our attitudes, beliefs, imaginary picture, dreams, desires, identifications,–our entire mechanicality–starts disintegrating. Why? Because this is a necessary process to open our eyes and ears and start understanding what is real.
We have to go through this process of transformation in order for a change of state to occur. After going through a process of destruction, regeneration appears. This allows us to experience a new being on a higher level on the spiral of our evolution.
The truth is that without consciousness, our responses to whatever happens are automatically generated by the lower self, and are unreal. The real world, the world of higher centers, is here, but we cannot see it. It is invisible to the machine. Most of the time we are disconnected from it. Why? Because it is a higher world with different laws.
In order to connect to this higher world, we need to develop and refine our highest perceptions that can tune into it, to the world of presence, of higher influences. We need to develop perceptive antennae that can capture more of what is real. Then we can discover the energy and meaning behind and beyond what happens mechanically inside us and around us. We can observe situations in the moment, and engage our higher centers, instead of reacting in a mechanical way.
A transformation takes place, in the sense that we have changed our way of responding thanks to the development of a certain level of awareness. In this way, we establish a deeper connection with our higher centers.
The machine reacts to stimuli always in the same way. It repeats always the same mistakes and keeps falling into the same mechanical actions. When we become aware of these mechanical reactions, we have the possibility to stop them. We do this by literally stopping our usual way of thinking, taking a deep breath, remembering to tune in to our higher centers, and opening up to the unexpected. Then we can start to really see, perceive, and be aware of a higher world.
In that long deep moment, something magical can happen. We are able to let go of our machines, to enter the real and fluid realm of consciousness. We forgive ourselves, and look out from a higher point of view, that of presence. Eventually we respond to such situations from our higher centers.
This connection with higher centers is the result of long work on oneself, but, above all, happens through the grace of higher energies, higher influences.
We need to keep in mind that the machine cannot transform anything. It simply doesn’t have the tools to do so. Higher centers do not need to transform anything, because they are under different laws and are in a continuous higher state.
So what is transformation about?
In my experience, transformation is a change of one’s state. In order for this to eventually occur, a good starting attitude is: Let go and surrender. This means letting go of all our ‘I’s, thoughts, opinions, judgements, identifications, etc. Surrendering to higher forces starts a process of detachment, helping us repel the ‘I’s on the subject of identification and negativity that the situation presents.
At the same time, we can be inspired to tune in to our higher centers by asking ourselves these questions:
- What good/positive thing can this difficult situation bring?
- What are higher forces trying to tell me and teach me in this moment?
- What would an angel do in this situation?
In this way, we connect with higher energies and make space for the grace of the gods to manifest. This connection leads us to a higher level of consciousness. Here we can look at the situation from a different plane, from our higher centers.
When we find ourselves in a higher state, we exist on a plane where mechanical laws do not exist. So that the negative energy of identification, held by our machine, miraculously turns into a higher energy. It is transformed into the energy of higher centers, the energy of pure consciousness. At that point we can see that higher forces arranges entire events in order to help us get nearer to them, and experience their state: Uncreated Light.
The author is an educator who has been studying the Fourth Way since she was a young woman living in Rome.
For more on the Fourth Way idea of change of being, from records of Gurdjieff’s teaching, see: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Being-Fourth-Way-Consciousness/dp/161180082X.