Higher Centers Explained: Gurdjieff’s Path to Awakening
Gurdjieff’s higher centers—the dormant emotional and intellectual capacities beyond ordinary consciousness. Learn why they don’t function and how to activate them through Fourth Way practices.
Underground Study Groups, and What Traditional Texts Assume You Already Have
When modern seekers encounter traditional spiritual texts—the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras, Plotinus’ Enneads, the Tao Te Ching, Sufi poetry—they often experience one of two responses: either the texts seem impenetrably obscure, or they seem deceptively simple. Both responses signal the same problem: the reader lacks qualifications the text assumes are already present. Traditional teachings were …
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Aphorisms
You came here to unmake the world they sold you. We are midwives to a birth that has never happened. Our ancestors hinted at it, mystics wept for it, poets dreamed it. But no civilization has ever embodied it A being no longer divided against itself. Thought that bows to silence. A body radiant with …