(Should one get this far in the blog, The Fourth Way, one can obtain the full book of this work minus the fourth way quotes within the '24 free books' of this site listed as 'panentheism addressing the journey of a soul' under the first classification titled 'Generically Oriented'.)
Preparation: Conquering the physical machine
Part IV
Preparation: Conquering the physical machine
Part IV
The question is not a silly question. In fact, as more and more people enter region/level 4, the easier it will become for those following to enter region 4.
Moving from the East side of the Appalachian Mountains to the West side of the Appalachian Mountains can now be accomplished using cars, buses and airplanes. To suggest using cars, airplanes, etc. to the early settlers of the fifteenth century would have been met with utter disbelief.
New techniques for reaching level 4 will evolve methods far beyond the ability of 2014 individuals to perceive.
The reason the journey to region 4 will become easier to accomplish as more people accomplish the journey is due to the evolutionary advancement of the process. As more people take the journey they will find nuances making the journey easier for those who follow. The nuances, once learned, can then be shared between individuals or in ‘a group’.
The sharing between individuals or in a group concept is an important one for it is only through sharing that the nuances can be learned by those who wish to follow. The process is similar to the old time wagon masters guiding settlers over the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.
Initially the trip West through the Appalachian Mountains was tedious, precarious, littered with failure but eventually the process evolved through repetition and technology to the point where millions upon millions now make the journey daily.
This process of decreasing the difficulties of the journey to region 4 is an evolutionary spiral upward which we as individuals and as a species have been taking for thousands of years.
This is not to say we as a species have always been moving in an upward direction for there were many times we slid down the spiral as opposed to climbing upward.
Regardless of how many times we as a species have slid downward, our resultant direction overall historically has been upward not downward and the very point of groups is to continue humanity’s historical vector in terms of our evolutionary development regarding our knowledge and understanding of our species, the physical cosmos, the ethereal including the Absolute.
"The trouble is that until this time the aim of my inner world had been concentrated only on my one unconquerable desire to investigate from all sides, and to understand, the exact significance and purpose of the life of man."
Live Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything, Third Series, Penguin Arkana, 1978, p. 26
Next: Taking a Peek: Viewing the void
Moving from the East side of the Appalachian Mountains to the West side of the Appalachian Mountains can now be accomplished using cars, buses and airplanes. To suggest using cars, airplanes, etc. to the early settlers of the fifteenth century would have been met with utter disbelief.
New techniques for reaching level 4 will evolve methods far beyond the ability of 2014 individuals to perceive.
The reason the journey to region 4 will become easier to accomplish as more people accomplish the journey is due to the evolutionary advancement of the process. As more people take the journey they will find nuances making the journey easier for those who follow. The nuances, once learned, can then be shared between individuals or in ‘a group’.
The sharing between individuals or in a group concept is an important one for it is only through sharing that the nuances can be learned by those who wish to follow. The process is similar to the old time wagon masters guiding settlers over the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.
Initially the trip West through the Appalachian Mountains was tedious, precarious, littered with failure but eventually the process evolved through repetition and technology to the point where millions upon millions now make the journey daily.
This process of decreasing the difficulties of the journey to region 4 is an evolutionary spiral upward which we as individuals and as a species have been taking for thousands of years.
This is not to say we as a species have always been moving in an upward direction for there were many times we slid down the spiral as opposed to climbing upward.
Regardless of how many times we as a species have slid downward, our resultant direction overall historically has been upward not downward and the very point of groups is to continue humanity’s historical vector in terms of our evolutionary development regarding our knowledge and understanding of our species, the physical cosmos, the ethereal including the Absolute.
"The trouble is that until this time the aim of my inner world had been concentrated only on my one unconquerable desire to investigate from all sides, and to understand, the exact significance and purpose of the life of man."
Live Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything, Third Series, Penguin Arkana, 1978, p. 26
Next: Taking a Peek: Viewing the void
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