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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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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