Be The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky’s book   In Search of the Miraculous  was, and still is, one of the principle publications available to...

The Divine Contrast Rodney Collin theorized that animal life on Earth are experiments. A dog is an experiment in the function of the...

The Fourth Way and Gnosticism Greetings Friends of the Fourth Way. In a previous post entitled,   The Fourth Way and Kabbalah,  we noted...

The System Unlocks Religions It occurred to me that in many civilizations throughout history, there seems to have come a point at which...

The Fourth Way and Kabbalah As P.D. Ouspensky shared in   The Fourth Way , the knowledge contained in his book came from Higher Mind. The...

The Thousand Natural Shocks “Schools are for ordinary people”  says Peter Ouspensky. This unassuming observation carries far-reaching and...

Sharing the Light Among Friends I received a lovely, encouraging text from a dear friend the other day. It was not only heartwarming, but...

The Tarot Card Number X From our friend, Benjamin Y. This post offers a glimpse into the esoteric wisdom from the school or tradition...

The Scaffolding of Esoteric Schools Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition,...

School Influence is Life “A practical school produces Higher Centers in its students.” – The Teacher Reflecting on the history of...

Who Needs A School? Schools are for ordinary people, Ouspensky tells us. Schools are for people who need them and who know they need...

Words of Love From our friend Charles R. What the great Egyptian dynasties were to the cultural genesis of most of what we experience...

Remembrance and Love: Links to Sufism In the heart of a lover of God, remembrance of God is always fresh, without effort, for what a man...

Stoic Being Marcus Aurelius, perhaps the most well-known name from the Stoic school, said “Perfection of character is this: to live each...

Stoicism: A Practical Fourth Way Tradition “If a discussion arises among the multitude on some principle, keep silent for the most part …...

Voices From Antiquity From our friend Charles R. We don’t know when conscious evolution first occurred among men. Neither do we know when...

Theoretical Study is Not Sufficient From our friend, Joan No one is concealing anything; there is no mystery whatsoever. But the...

The Divine Mirror From our friend, Charles R. Perhaps you remember we wrote about A, B and C influences. A influence relates to basic...

Who Is My Teacher? From a friend When I first joined the School, I was afraid to meet “The Teacher” because I knew he would be able to...

From Presence to Presence From our Friend, Irene C. The teaching passes from Third Eye to Third Eye—from Presence to Presence. — The...

Inner Learning through Interacting with Others Another semester recently wrapped up and has given me a chance to reflect. I teach...

Living Presence Today https://www.facebook.com/livingpresencetoday Living Presence – North America https://www.facebook.com/LivingPresenc...

The Will to Evolve From our friend, Charles R. It’s simple. Surprisingly simple. So simple in fact, that when we’re told about...

We are Alone Without Outside Help We take for granted that we know with certainty the path of a solar eclipse that will be crossing North...

Edmund Blair Leighton - Abelard and his Pupil Heloise

Outside Help From our friend, Charles R. We know that there’s a state of being beyond our usual unconscious experience. A state in which...

Outside Help “It must be understood that without outside help a man can never see himself.” – Gurdjieff “Man cannot know his condition...

Ordinary schools deal with information and reason—yet reasoning leads only to more reasoning, not to a way out. A true...

The Marriage of Three Lines Each week it is my intention to write a post that might be able to inspire in myself – as well as in you – to...

A Question of Balance Why is a school necessary for conscious evolution? Given all that’s been written and posted on this forum about the...

Reminders for Presence On most days I use an alarm clock to remind me to rise. Working on oneself is about setting alarm clocks—reminders...

Personal Reflections: Influences A B C My life journey began in a small rural town, born into a family of two nurturing parents, rich...

Under the Influence If you’ve been reading recent posts, then you know that our newest subject is A, B and C influences. A influences are...

A, B, and C Influences All the motives of living out one’s life – having food to eat, making money, raising a family, career, education,...

The Birth of the Magnetic Center Gurdjieff established a schema that includes all the influences that can reach us, which he called—in...

Why the Fourth Way? “It is possible to work and to follow this way while remaining in the usual conditions of life. The conditions of...

Quest of the Seeker It is not unusual for one’s inner Seeker to ask, “Who am I? What am I? Where am I?” One could ask, “Am I the person...

Schools of the Miraculous “It seemed to me that even the beginning of contact with a School may have a miraculous nature.” ~ P.D....

Schools Some conscious beings establish schools. In order to have a school, a conscious, living guide is necessary, someone who has...

We’ve been posting and you’ve been reading. Even though the men and women who post are in a Fourth Way school, these Facebook posts and...

Esoteric Schools are for Those Who Need Them According to my Teacher, “The principal reason man does not awaken is that he does not...

Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I...

TO BE AND NOT TO SEEM The lower self, all lower selves, they think they are important. They really overrate themselves enormously. It is...

The Changing Sense of 'I' In this work to awaken fully, we experience a changing sense of ‘I’. First, our sense of ‘I’ develops in...

Ordinary schools deal with information and reason—yet reasoning leads only to more reasoning, not to a way out. A true spiritual school...