The Fourth Way

 

Tensions form a very great part of the whole unfortunate condition of human beings which prevent them from being what they wish to be. When we are tense, there cannot be a free flow of energy, there is constant wastage of energy at every point in our body where we are tense.
 

J.G. Bennett

 
     

 

The beginning of almost always clear:

 

First one must struggle with oneself.

Secondly, one must not fall back into states and activities which destroy all that has been built up.

Thirdly, there is the need to look within with integrity.

 

Pierre Elliot

 

A few principles of Fourth Way Teachings

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It is possible to stop being a machine, but for that it is necessary first of all to 'know the machine'... When a machine knows itself it is then no longer a machine, not such a machine as it was before.

G.I. Gurdjieff

 

The 5 Being Obligonian Strivings

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About The Fourth Way

 

The Fourth Way is for those who wish to engage in a sincere process of self discovery and self development. It is a means to allow us to become wholly human once again. 

 

Through the various methods of the Fourth Way we can learn to truly enjoy life and transform our suffering by a process of personal and collective transformation of what Bennett has called non-living, living and supra-living energies.

 

It is a path where one comes to an ever deeper experience of the energies that reside from within our bodies, feelings and mind and to be able to actively work with them.

 

As we more reliably experience a tangible relationship to a higher will that can manifest through the harmonization of our centres we become liberated from existential angst and the conflict of competing desires.

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Distinguishing The Fourth Way As Differing From Other Means of Self Development

 

 

There are so many paths today that specialize in the development of one center or many aspects of the human being. However the  focus of the Fourth Way is the specifically the harmonious development of the human being. Today there is plethora of methods regarding self developmental methods that are therapeutic, psychological, spiritual or religious in origin. Such processes or paths of human development can be distinguished  as not representing the Fourth Way that are ...


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