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Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Politics, Reincarnation, Scale and Relativity

On COVID 19 or Scale and Relativity

It has been suggested to me by a number of readers that I write something on the COVID 19 pandemic which has affected all of us…

Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Esotericism, Self-Remembering

An Inconvenient Idea

It always amazes me that more people are not interested in the idea of conscious evolution. The idea that a man (or woman) can, by making specific inner efforts…

Accumulators, Being Present, Bipolar, Conscious Evolution, Gurdjieff, Self-Remembering

Accumulators, Energy, and Bipolar Disorder

Psychologically an ordinary man is not prepared for such an intense flow of energy, and the resulting manifestations (symptoms) are what we call the manic phase of bi-polar disorder.

Being Present, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Self-Remembering

Self-Remembering and Being

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

Being Present, Conscious Evolution, 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…

Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Gurdjieff, Lying, Ouspensky, Self-Remembering

Lying and Choosing to Believe

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

Artificial Intelligence, Being Present, Esotericism, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky

AI and the Mechanics of Consciousness

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

Being Present, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Politics, Self-Remembering

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

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…