Lighting the Very Light
What does the medieval Christian concept of uncreated light show us about reaching higher states? Efforts are the “work” of the Fourth Way, but “uncreated light” comes when it will.
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World 12 and World 6
Fourth Way authors alert us to the fact that what we experience is, to a large degree, an illusion. There is a tangible reality—if we see a tree, or the wall of a house, we can touch and feel them. They are there. In a deeper sense, however, most of our perceptions stem from a […]
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Objective Reality – Inviting Us In
Objective Reality – Beyond World Twelve to World Six The natural world is more clearly inviting us into its mysteries, these days. I’m spending an hour each morning raking leaves. The distractions of ordinary life seem muted by the pandemic. Energies more rare, more refined, appear outdoors. And this natural world speaks to something higher […]
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Being Awake
When one digests or transforms impressions through self-remembering, higher centers appear. Even when the higher state subsides, the energy resonates in one’s being for a while.
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To See Through One’s Eyes
We must learn to receive each moment with neither preference nor denial. In this way we may proceed not only away from our inner beasts, but toward our inner best. Step by step, we learn to walk out of imagination into the real world, and through it, into higher realms of reality.
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Seeing What is in Front of Us
When we experience true seeing, the temporal, fugitive, and fleeting human being touches the eternal. This very act of self-awareness in a given moment ennobles us and produces eternity.
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The Divine Imprint
On the walk to Angel Falls, when I am present to myself and can finally see, fascination and identification cease to exist, and a deep comprehension of a higher world arises.
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External Consideration–a tool for spiritual growth
There are aspects of presence that can play in our favor. One is battling imagination, the many I’s comprising our inner world. A major tool for this struggle is external consideration, the work of being present to another human being.
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We Always Make a Profit
Can we always make a profit? Toward the end of In Search of the Miraculous, Ouspensky describes a newspaper reporter’s conversation with Gurdjieff at a train station. Gurdjieff made a number of enigmatic statements about business and the Russian Revolution. The reporter asked, “Don’t you make profits, too?” [Gurdjieff] smiled… and said with gravity: “We always make a […]
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Striving for Justice
If there is ever to be an ideal state, it requires not only a Sage King but also citizens who strive for internal justice. Though there will always be people striving for justice in the external world, if one doesn’t strive for justice in one’s own internal world, nobody else will.
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