What is the Work?

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"The Work is not a building, a place, a book, a system, dogma or tradition. The Work is something that lives in the hearts and minds of men and women - if they can find it." (Maurice Nicoll, ´Simple Explanation of Work Ideas´)

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Whether we can see the outside world or are we only endlessly seeing the products of our own mind?
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During the practice of dividing attention the following concept came to mind and became a living question. Our senses pick up stimuli and transmit them to the brain which interprets them for us. I... Continue

Started by Peter. Last reply by albigen 1 day ago.

Game: Stories 2
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What story is told here? Rules of the game: - write first and analyse later Continue

Started by Dutchboy. Last reply by marco May 5.

Discussion of "All and Everything"
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Thrilled, puzzled, frustrated or overjoyed by Gurdjieff's writings? Here's the place to discuss them.

Started by aliceworks. Last reply by Ben May 1.

Suffering
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Suffering is at the heart of the Teaching of Mr. Gurdjieff. It is Suffering that awakens in us the Divine impulse of conscience. In the words of the Great Prophet Ashiata Shiemash: “In all three-b... Continue

Started by Ben. Last reply by Colin Blundell Apr 30.

Cassiopaea
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I have come across on the Internet a number of people who are studying Work ideas, including Beelzebub's Tales, and claim to be "channeling" higher centres. As I understand it, Gurdjieff groups are... Continue

Started by Kristina. Last reply by Victor Acosta A. Apr 29.

Nothingness
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Somewhere in the Maurice Nicoll’s commentaries there is such expression: unless you realize your nothingness, nothing could be achieved. Or something like that. When I read these words before, som... Continue

Started by John Jiang. Last reply by Colin Blundell Apr 26.

FOR PEOPLE NEW TO ‘THE WORK’ Asking Questions...
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Gurdjieff celebrates the fact that his father and Dean Borsh engaged, for his edification so it seemed to him, in a procedure called kastousilia—‘an extremely original means for development of the ... Continue

Started by Colin Blundell. Last reply by marco Apr 23.

The place of self-remembering in our Work
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I know this site is very new and will take time to find its legs, so to speak, but I can't help noticing a lack of mention of self-remembering in the posts. Without self-remembering (call it prese... Continue

Started by Martin Lass. Last reply by Ben Apr 21.

Triamazikamno Forum
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I feel I've reached a kind of impasse in my (psuedo)efforts at understanding the Law of Three, and specifically, it's role in our everyday lives. And so, I'd like to sincerely invite others here t... Continue

Started by Parsifal. Last reply by marco Apr 14.

News and Events
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Do you know of Fourth Way related news or events that others in the network might be interested in? These could include announcements about new books or recordings, information about conferences, m... Continue

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From forthcoming book called Christmas - the Inner Way to Bethlehem

The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospel of Matthew Introduction In the Christian spiritual tradition the processes of the soul are presented in the form of stories which look historical – in these stories the inner instances in us are personified. Since the depth psychology of C. G. Jung our western psychology has been trying to make the pictures of speech understandable to the intellect. Our being understands only the language of pictures – and not the concepts – and theref… Continue

Posted by Agnes Hidveghy on March 28th, 2008 at 8:58am — No Comments (Add)

Confusion and the four centers

Ok, this post goes out to anybody out there who can help. Please!!!! Have been reading Ouspensky and other G. related books over the past several months, am tremendously excited and feel that I'm beginning to sort things out inside myself. One of the big problems I keep running into is that I'd just like a simple graph, chart or diagram etc. to look at that would, in a simple way, illustrate the four centers along with the 4 subcenters--king, queen etc. and the activities that pertain to each. F… Continue

Posted by John on March 28th, 2008 at 4:45am — 13 Comments (Add)

Happy Easter!

“It is possible to have many small births before the real birth takes place – before ‘Christ is born within us’ – just as it is possible to have many small deaths. In fact, this is how the Work proceeds. […] Barabbas, the pseudo king, is chosen and the real king, Christ, is put to death. Barabbas is described in the Gospels as a robber, murderer, traitor, and rebel. What is the robber in us? It is the false personality. Barabbas is in us. The crowd in the drama represents the multitude of I’s in… Continue

Posted by aliceworks on March 23rd, 2008 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Song of the Peach Tree Spring

In the Friday Night Forum February 22nd, Alice quoted Mr O answering questions about self-remembering:- Mr O: Continue to observe and you will find that there is a place in you where you are quiet, calm, and nothing can disturb you—only it is difficult to find the way there. But if you do it several times you will be able to remember some of the steps, and by the same steps you may come there again. Only you cannot do it after one experience, for you will not remember the way. This quiet… Continue

Posted by Colin Blundell on March 1st, 2008 at 9:30am — 4 Comments (Add)

Seeing the three forces from outside the ideas of Mr. Gurdjieff

Extract from „Astrology – the Sacred Science” by Agnes Hidveghy Page 53-54 “The name of first force of these three forms of energy is “active force”. It is male in its nature and supplies us with the impulses. This force enables that something can begin to take place. Besides the active force there exists a female receiving force, which grabs the impulse, carries it through time and implements it. We can also call these two energies an acting and an implementing force. Of the connection… Continue

Posted by Reijo on February 26th, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments (Add)