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Conscious Evolution, Esotericism, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Teaching Esotericism

In Defense of P. D. Ouspensky

I discovered the writings of P. D. Ouspensky from a book by Colin Wilson called The Occult. Wilson quotes a long passage from The New Model of the Universe, which so struck me that the next time I was in a used book store I inquired about Ouspensky. The owner of the store didn’t have any of his books, but…

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.

Conscious Evolution, Esotericism, Gurdjieff, Science, Self-Remembering, The Universe

The Fourth Way and Science

Gurdjieff and Ouspensky had an affinity for science. Gurdjieff was interested…

Esotericism, Self-Remembering

Prayer as a Method of Inner Work

Before I can begin to talk about prayer and how it relates to inner work, I am going to have to speak about a few misconceptions…

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Gurdjieff, Gnostics, and the Divinity of Christ

At the age of five I was sent to Catholic school and almost immediately got into trouble with the priests and nuns who ran the parish…

Being Present, Esotericism, Self-Remembering

Higher Mind, Knowledge, and Being

In general people can agree that men differ in the amount of knowledge they possess–a man may be more knowledgeable or less knowledgeable than another man–but it is a little more tricky to see that two men may possess a different being, especially in relation to spiritual matters.

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I Contain Multitudes

When people first come in contact with Gurdjieff’s system, the idea that man is many ‘I’s’is often objected to. People don’t like being told that they are not one person; it sounds crazy. But really it’s reversed. The truly crazy people, the scary people, are the ones who are always the same.