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…
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Category: Self-Remembering
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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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.
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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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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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Shakespeare, Gurdjieff, and the Idea of Good and Evil
When Shakespeare created Iago, he imagined a character that had never been seen in literature: a brilliant and sophisticated devil…
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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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On the Fragility of the Body
When an impression is strong enough it can create a shock that allows it to enter essence and higher centers automatically…
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The Fourth Way and Science
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky had an affinity for science. Gurdjieff was interested…
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We Always Make a Profit
When we take this principle of balancing the four lower centers to the scale of nations, business mirrors the instinctive center; government, the moving center; religion and myth, the emotional center; and the press and the arts, the intellectual center…
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The Parable of the Ten Virgins
Not long ago I had a toothache, and between the time when the tooth began to ache and the time when my dentist could see me, I had a few difficult days…
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On Good Fortune
The only way we can have a guarantee of good fortune is to find a way of thinking and living that transforms events that we now think of as bad fortune into events that we can consider good fortune…
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