The Fourth Way

There are three recognized ways of self-development generally known in esoteric circles. These are:
1. Way of the Fakir, dealing exclusively with the physical body.
2. Way of the Monk, dealing with the emotions.
3. Way of the Yogi, dealing with the mind.

What is common about the three ways is that they demand complete seclusion from the world. According to George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, there is a Fourth Way which does not demand its followers to abandon the world. The work of self-development takes place right in the midst of ordinary life. Gurdjieff called his system a school of the Fourth Way where a person learns to work in harmony with his physical body, emotions and mind. P.D. Ouspensky picked up this idea and continued his own school along this line.


George Ivanovich Gurdjieff ( 1866 – 1949) was a mystic and spiritual teacher. He called his discipline "The Work" (connoting "work on oneself") according to Gurdjieff's principles and instructions, or (originally) the "Fourth Way". At one point he described his teaching as "esoteric Christianity".



Gurdjieff claimed that people cannot perceive reality in their current states because they do not possess consciousness but rather live in a state of a hypnotic "waking sleep". "Man lives his life in sleep, and in sleep he dies." As a result of this condition, each person perceives things from a completely subjective perspective. Gurdjieff stated that maleficent events such as wars and so on could not possibly take place if people were more awake. He asserted that people in their typical state function as unconscious automatons (a self-operating machine or robot), but that one can "wake up" and become a different sort of human being altogether.

The Fourth Way teaches people how to increase and focus their attention and energy in various ways, and to minimize daydreaming and absentmindedness. According to this teaching, this inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further process of change, whose aim is to transform a man into what Gurdjieff taught he ought to be.




FAKE SCHOOLS
Fakes? Really? Leading nowhere?
My Merkaba isn't real? How to recognize?
I guess a three-toed-sloth is figurative, not literal.
Fortunately, Emmet Fox had a simple test => http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/06/there-is-simple-test-by-which-you-can.html

During theReconnection the eyes flutter just like hypnosis. I wonder.
Having a Ph.D. in Intuition and Energy Medicine from a non-accredited institution can’t be a good thing.
Having a Ph.D from a non-accredited institution isn’t a good thing in general.

LightLanguage, a guided tour of all 80 polyhedra starts here: http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/unipoly/01.html