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Lying and Choosing to Believe

Posted by williampage | | Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Essays, Gurdjieff, Lying, Ouspensky, Self-Remembering |

The work we are involved in is long and it is normal to occasionally fall into a state of apathy about our progress,..

AI and the Mechanics of Consciousness

Posted by williampage | | Artificial Intelligence, Being Present, Esotericism, Essays, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky |

Thinking may make us human, but it doesn’t make us conscious.

Shakespeare, Gurdjieff, and the Idea of Good and Evil

Posted by williampage | | Essays, Gurdjieff, Other People, Self-Remembering |

When Shakespeare created Iago, he imagined a character that had never been seen in literature: a brilliant and sophisticated devil…

What Now? (The Collective Existential Crisis of November 9th 2016)

Posted by williampage | | Being Present, Essays, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Politics, Self-Remembering |

A couple of weeks ago I met with a friend who is a psychologist, and she described an encounter with another psychologist on November ninth, the day after the American elections…

When Life Is Uncertain

Posted by williampage | | Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Death and Grieving, Essays, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky |

In the summer before my last year in high school my older sister’s best friend, Jeni, was killed in an automobile accident.;..

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My Mystic Initiation

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