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Suggestibility and Hypnotism


from Nicoll’s “Commentaries,” pp. 1422-1423 “What is this strange hypnotic sleep that we are all in, about which Gurdjieff used to speak so much? There are two things that we are told are different–hypnotism and suggestibility. Although it has been … Continue reading

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THE CONCEPT OF THE „FIRST CONSCIOUS SHOCK“ AND THE LAW OF SEVEN


The Law of Seven is an ancient principle who was an integral part of the alchemical sciences as practiced during the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. This principle was known to both the Pythagoreans and Platonists. In the Fourth Way … Continue reading

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Simple Exercises for your Mind


Count from 1 to 100 and from 100 to 1 as faster as you can. Perform the above exercise, but this time vizualizing the numbers such as you see them sliding on an electronic counter. Count from 1 to 100 … Continue reading

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Three Focal Points as Exercise


1. Create the Observer Begin watching yourself as if you were an interesting stranger. Only record those observations that are crystal clear. Resist the habit of thinking, or analyzing. Observation is a form of meditation in which the mind is … Continue reading

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#3.Being Present in Suffering


Human beings are educated from birth to experience negative emotions, and this conditioning is so rooted that they recognize themselves more easily in suffering than in pleasure. Almost always he defines as “pleasure” the momentary cessation of some state of … Continue reading

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Practices for Uncontrolled Imagination


From Ouspensky’s “Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution,” pp. 47-50 Now we must see what are those harmful features that man finds in himself. Speaking in general, they are all mechanical manifestations. The first, as has already been said, is lying…. … Continue reading

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Non Developement of Being or: why we can’t be one?


Before beginning such interesting, complex and strange argument, it would be better to read what said more competent individuals than me (and I suppose than more of the readers) about our true nature. Permit me the freedom to chose between … Continue reading

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Apologies along the Path


Many people declare to search the truth; sometimes it seems that this is the main subject of their life, but once having the possibility of begininning the path, many doubts, truobles, duties and terms arise. “Maybe meditation is not for … Continue reading

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The Trap of our Self Pity


Self-pity is one of the worst “psychic viruses” which harm men’s mind.  We have all experienced it, it’s inevitable.  It is also one of the often used tools for individual and social blackmail. Everyday we are all victims and often … Continue reading

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Mechanicity and the Apparent Impossibility of Self Freedom


“The evolution of man can be taken as the development in him of those powers and possibilities which never develop by themselves, that is, mechanically.  Only this kind of development, only this kind of growth, marks the real evolution of … Continue reading

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