Imagination refers to the automatic and involuntary movement of our thoughts and includes daydreaming. A large part of awakening is struggling with imagination. …

The first state of consciousness is sleep in bed, at night. The second state, also known as waking sleep, is our state of every day. The third state is self-consciousness.

Gurdjieff says in In Search of the Miraculous, “Observation must begin with the division of functions. All the activity of the human machine is divided into four sharply defined groups, each of which is controlled by its own special mind or ‘center.’ …

Ouspensky writes in the Psychology, “Every thought, every feeling, every sensation, every desire, every like and every dislike is an ‘I’. These ‘I’s are not connected and are not coordinated …

Self-remembering is a special kind of awareness of oneself. Ouspensky remarks, “The whole idea is to be aware of yourself in this place, at this moment. …

Self-observation is a special kind of directed attention, where we pay attention to our internal world and try to view it objectively, as a stranger would….

Hello, my name is David Tuttle. I have been studying the ideas of the Fourth Way for over forty years, in the context of a school with a teacher. In this series, I will cover various basic topics …