The path is ours to choose.

Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words lives all one needs to know and practice, that is, assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, true and loving.~ Guy Finley

Learn to see and to use the presence of any psychological pain as an invitation to reprioritize your present values. Initiate this invaluable exchange by realizing the following truth, and then dare to act upon its inevitable conclusion: Whatever you may be identified with -- and, as a consequence, that you now fear losing -- could never have been the path to freedom that it promised to be. ~ Guy Finley

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

The Fourth Way II

Peter D. Ouspensky (1878–1947), a Russian esoteric philosopher known for his expositions of the early work of George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. After Ouspensky broke away from Gurdjieff, he taught the "Fourth Way", as he understood it, to his independent groups.
P.D. Ouspensky made the term "Fourth Way" and its use central to his own teaching of the ideas of Gurdjieff. He greatly focused on Fourth Way schools and their existence throughout history.


The Fourth Way mainly addresses the question of people's place in the Universe, their possibilities for inner development, and transcending the body to achieve a higher state of consciousness. It emphasized that people live their lives in a state referred to as "waking sleep", but that higher levels of consciousness and various inner abilities are possible.



Rodney Collin (1909–1956) was a British writer in the area of spiritual development. His work was heavily influenced by his teacher, P. D. Ouspensky, and through him, G. I. Gurdjieff, and their system of spiritual development. Rodney Collin is one of the most well known of Ouspenky's students, and a prolific writer.
Collin's best known work, “The Theory of Celestial Influence”, was an ambitious attempt to unite astronomy, physics, chemistry, human physiology, and world history with his own version of planetary influences.




Maurice Nicoll (1884–1953) was a British psychiatrist, author and noted Fourth Way teacher. Though Nicoll advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he also maintained interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream interpretation until the end of his life.