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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Higher Centers, Lower Centers and Comprehension
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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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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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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