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Work on Being in the Fourth Way

The being of two people can be more different from each other than the being of a mineral and an animal. – G. I. Gurdjieff The idea of states of being is an esoteric one. Human life is not lived from one fixed inner condition. A person passes through many states during the course of a […]

by Benjamin B

Conscience as a Unifying Element

George Gurdjieff informs us that conscience is to emotion what consciousness is to intellect. Both are a summation or entirety, one of feeling, the other of thought. As a contemporary spiritual teacher tells us, self-remembering, or presence, is always right action. He also said that conscience has to do with right action. The difference lies […]

by Stefania Maggini

Poems

Fields of the One Beyond the skin, where dust remembers dust, a few souls turn toward a hidden music. No road, no border, no name can bind them— they meet where silence kindles into flame. Bodies fade like evening light on water, yet what they are was never held by form. In those boundless fields […]

by Shel Patrickson

Waves

Waves wash over you, full of Doubts and hopes from mind and heart that drag and pull you, Each its own story to tell. Let them go, let them pass. Like the leaves on a wintry tree, Like the cocoon that would cling to an ordinary caterpillar, Like snow on a summer’s mountain top. For […]

by Bruno Angelin

You & the Four States of Consciousness

There are four states of consciousness, according to the Fourth Way. The fourth state is rarely achieved by people in their lifetime. Some conscious beings have reported moments of the fourth state as a life-changing experience. It is in your grasp. Higher centers are a reality if you can awaken them, as they exist only in higher states.

by Benjamin B

The Purpose of a School

Schools of awakening exist because they are needed. By school we mean an entity devoted to the evolution of its students. At the head of a real school stands a conscious teacher. At the same time, a real school is directly monitored and nurtured by C Influence—Gods, or angels[1]. In order to define what a […]

by Dhruvi Chavda

Creating a Conscious School

Schools are the outcome of consciousness. When the state of consciousness is materialised, a school is built. Later may come a series of things, form, culture, community, discipline, etc. But the very source of school is the wish to share consciousness. Creating a school is a process of giving and gaining for a conscious being. […]

by Walther Sell

What is a Conscious School?

Most people live their lives oblivious to the fact that they are machines. Some reach a point where they begin to feel uncomfortable with their life. They may wonder what it is all for, perhaps realizing that they are asleep. Some may even join a group where ideas about awakening are taught. One of the […]

by Grazia M

Perseverance and Endurance

“Eternity requires perseverance and endurance.” – Bernard of Clairvaux Once I heard a story regarding a teacher at the beginning of his school. He was asking students what they thought was needed to build a school. Students gave several answers, like making efforts, having aims, etc. The teacher listened to all of these answers, and at […]

by Natassa Cavalli

Embroidering the Canvas of Our ‘Being’

I remember, in my preschool years, a child in the neighborhood who had crafted a boomerang and threw it high. The boomerang, spinning on itself, traced an elliptical trajectory in the air and returned to its operator. The child would stretch high or gather low to successfully catch it again, and I wondered what forces brought about this […]