Diversity: Degrees, variations and bridges
Part II
Different people have different bridges available to them. Some people have only one bridge available to them, some two bridges and some three bridges.
What then of level 4? What then of region 4? Level four, region four, island four is shrouded in fog to almost everyone and has yet to be discovered by the vast majority of people. There are a few people who have managed to vaguely make out a faint outline of island four through the fog.
"My deep wish is to submit entirely to an inner voice, the feeling of divine, of the sacred in me. I know that a higher energy – what religions call God or Lord – is within me. It will appear if the mind and the body are truly related. God is here when two forces are opposed a third unites them. We can ask for help in order to unite these forces in us. We can say, “Lord, have mercy.” In order to Be."
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 260.
Some of these people are curious; some have even attempted but failed to reach the island. Then there are the very, very, very few who have in fact built their bridge to island four and stepped onto the island, stepped into region 4.
Those that have stepped into region 4 are the Jonathon Livingston Seagulls of the fourth way and the reaction to these individuals is no less than the reaction Jonathon Livingston Seagull received from his fellow seagulls.
Are there different degrees, variations, and bridges regarding stepping into region/level 4?
Reaching level 4 is ...
Part II
Different people have different bridges available to them. Some people have only one bridge available to them, some two bridges and some three bridges.
What then of level 4? What then of region 4? Level four, region four, island four is shrouded in fog to almost everyone and has yet to be discovered by the vast majority of people. There are a few people who have managed to vaguely make out a faint outline of island four through the fog.
"My deep wish is to submit entirely to an inner voice, the feeling of divine, of the sacred in me. I know that a higher energy – what religions call God or Lord – is within me. It will appear if the mind and the body are truly related. God is here when two forces are opposed a third unites them. We can ask for help in order to unite these forces in us. We can say, “Lord, have mercy.” In order to Be."
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 260.
Some of these people are curious; some have even attempted but failed to reach the island. Then there are the very, very, very few who have in fact built their bridge to island four and stepped onto the island, stepped into region 4.
Those that have stepped into region 4 are the Jonathon Livingston Seagulls of the fourth way and the reaction to these individuals is no less than the reaction Jonathon Livingston Seagull received from his fellow seagulls.
Are there different degrees, variations, and bridges regarding stepping into region/level 4?
Reaching level 4 is ...
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