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Conscious Evolution, Esotericism, Gurdjieff

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.

Esotericism

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.

Esotericism, Teaching Esotericism

Myth, Higher Centers, Lower Centers, and Madness

When I was a young man, I worked at a psychiatric clinic, and one morning I was asked to go to our front offices to admit a new patient…