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Working with Conscious Influence

These days one only has to search the internet to see the availability of a plethora of discussions, some very erudite, some more subjective, of expositions of the Fourth Way as it was revealed over a century ago. These discussions constitute the turning in circles of pursuing B Influence as an end in itself. As Ouspensky stated, a correctly formed magnetic centre will only accept C Influence.

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The Flexibility Needed for Consciousness

What can we do in our inner work to achieve an open flexibility towards consciousness? It is true that… *..Developing sequentially our “being”… *..Watching the “I’s” springing from each part of our four lower energy centers…    *..Connecting our will to our “heart of hearts”… *..Eliminating any negativity from our “queens”, “kings” and “jacks”… *..Surpassing our inner “steward” and following our awaken soul’s […]

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Quotations on Freedom

These quotations on freedom come from a variety of sources, including Fourth Way authors, as selected by our editors. The sweet bondage which is freedom’s self. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last human freedom-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Viktor […]

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Time and Eternity, the sixth dimension, Alette Matei

Time, Eternity, and the Sixth Dimension

The fifth dimension is an endless line or loop of time, and the sixth a cube or sphere of all moments. This sixth dimension contains all choices, spreading out and infinitely repeating in eternity. This may be the true meaning of free will. All that we can conceive and do is contained in the sixth dimension. Any choice we make is valid, and any choice we did not make, any line we did not take, exists also. Extending into infinity. 

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Recurrence, Higher Dimensions, and Time Travel

If reincarnation and recurrence exist, which seems likely to me, then we will be able to travel to the future and the past. Only first we have to do the work of the moment; we have to be present and use our attention and focus to fashion a lighter and more durable vehicle.

Really, we are all time travelers, and our physical bodies are the time machines that we so badly want to invent.

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Quotations on Awakening

The third state of consciousness~ self-remembering, or self-consciousness, consciousness of one’s own being-constitutes the natural right of man as he is, and if a man does not possess it is only because of the wrong conditions of his life. In the fourth state of consciousness, objective consciousness, a man can see things as they are.

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Perspectives on Awakening

Identification with our thoughts, emotions, pains and sufferings diminishes as the scope broadens. Acceptance and humility overtake any resentment and self-absorption. The manifestations of the lower self can actually serve as fuel to this state. Transforming these into presence can propel a higher state into even greater heights. 

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Receiving and reflecting the light, Fellowship of Friends

Receiving and Reflecting the Light

We embody what is higher by being present. We can learn to hear if our hearts are in the temple or in the  bazaar. When we identify for  ourselves the flavor of those virtues–courage, prudence, humility and moderation–which Plato associates with the Ideal State, our work with others will be stronger: more direct and more compassionate as required.

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