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Self-Remembering and Being

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

When people react negatively to inner work, it is often because ideas of conscious evolution threaten to expose the lies they tell themselves.

Man in the Image of God

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

As a rule, we either don’t think about how identity will organize itself without a body, or we assume we will be given a soul after death in the same way we were given a body at birth. But to believe that a soul can be given is a misunderstanding of what a soul is…

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…

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