The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
When I was growing up, a friend once counseled me, “Beware of words that end in ‘-tion.’” We were both studying Latin and loved English. She became a filmmaker, and I a writer and teacher of music and literature. I have noticed in the word ‘verification’ a problem inherent in the endings that make nouns […]
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Faith of consciousness is freedom.Faith of feeling is slavery.Faith of body is stupidity. – Gurdjieff The soul, when it sees a trace of its kindred reality, is delighted and thrilled and returns to itself and remembers itself. – Plotinus I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. – Gurdjieff Our faith […]
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Lying How do we achieve inner transformation? When people react negatively to the necessity of inner work, it is often because the ideas of conscious evolution threaten to expose the lies they tell themselves. The primary lies we all tell ourselves are that we are conscious. We tell ourselves that we have will, and that […]
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