A Theory of Nations
1 Unlike the other three traditional ways, the fourth way exists in everyday life. It is therefore...
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Category: Ouspensky
Do We Live in an Apocalyptic Time?
It would be hard to deny our present world situation does not clearly describe the first aspect of apocalypse.
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The Ray of Conscious Influence or God and Man
Ouspensky didn’t want his students to equate the Absolute with God. When he was asked if...
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On The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Mescaline doesn’t open up higher centers directly, but it forces them to the forefront of our consciousness to deal with and make sense of a world without associations.
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The Rise of the Hasnamuss in Contemporary Politics
Another characteristic of the hasnamuss is that he appeals to the lowest in his followers, and in doing so destroys whatever higher possibilities they have.
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In Defense of P. D. Ouspensky
Besides Gurdjieff, no one in the early days of the movement did more to support, clarify and promote the work than Ouspensky…
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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.
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Man in the Image of God
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…
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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,..
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AI and the Mechanics of Consciousness
Thinking may make us human, but it doesn’t make us conscious.
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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…
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When Life Is Uncertain
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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