First Force, Second Force, and Third Force are important concepts in The Fourth Way/The Work. Understanding these concepts will clarify how to approach your endeavors in a manner that doesn’t create counterforce. First Force is the “I want/I need/I should” doership posture; Second Force is the resistance that arises in response to it. Without Third …
“Reification is defined as the process of treating abstract concepts or statements as concrete entities, allowing for the assertion of additional facts about them, such as provenance and attributes.” – ScienceDirect In simpler words, reification is when we “make a ‘thing’” out of something that isn’t actually a thing. Take, for example, when a couple …
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Truth Statements are Hypnotic Suggestions There is a part of the mind that accepts truth-statements and compels one to conform to them. Even if you know it to be untrue at an intellectual level, you will find yourself acting as if it were true. Quite often, through your activity, you make it true. And then …
Wanting Leads to the Wrong Life Our default state is wanting. Most of our activity can be summarized as: This quadratic hell is what I call the wrong life — the quintessential, out-of-Alignment exsitence. Why? For the very reason that wanting is not necessary. It is not as if you will become an inert object …
Traditional spiritual texts—scripture, sacred poetry, metaphysical treatises—were written in a language modern readers no longer speak. Not Sanskrit, Arabic, or Greek, though learning these helps immensely, but the language of symbol, correspondence, and multiple simultaneous meanings. The contemporary mind, trained by literalist fundamentalism on one side and materialist skepticism on the other, approaches these texts …
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