SOME THINGS COME IN PAIRS

There is a popular notion or 'superstition' that things come in pairs, such as in the saying, 'It never rains but it pours' and, of course, the animals loaded into Noah's Ark. But in the FOURTH WAY STUDIES things are apt to come in THREE'S,that is, follow THE LAW OF THREE, of which many do not understand or apply for many reasons. While the  mind will accept such, the emotions often do not and the body also ignores this law at different times and sometimes at great cost or expense. The Law of Three also involves 'cause and effect' situations while other things determine our FATE.

THE LAW OF THREE: CENTERS, AN EXAMPLE

The LAW OF THREE in regards to the centers of man, body, mind, emotions, and also the instinctive, moving, sex,and two higher centers is often a concern for those beginning THE FOURTH WAY, especially for those coming from the three classic or traditional ways of  THE FAKIR, THE MONK, THE YOGI.  
  Since these three ways are fairly familiar to those who have previously read this blog and some of the other related blogs of mine, I shall not go into these ways. Instead, I want to discuss this by giving an example that may be more familiar to many: THREE CHARACTERS FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ!                                

The author of the OZ BOOKS, which I had as child when I was around 6-7 years old, FRANK L. BAUM was an interesting person whose other talents and interests have faded a bit since the popular movie with Judy Garland.  The movie,highly entertaining, colorful and musical, shunted aside the special things that can be found in this story.

FIRST, the three characters that concern us here: THE SCARECROW, THE TIN MAN, & THE LION. On the face of it, these characters are amusing and charming, with special problems and character traits and so on. THE SCARECROW LACKS A BRAIN. THE TIN MAN LACKS A HEART. THE LION IS COWARDLY AND LACKS 'COURAGE'. Thus we have THE THREE MAIN CENTERS: THE MIND, THE EMOTIONS, THE BODY.

They all have the PHYSICAL CENTER or BODY and can use the MOVING CENTER as the movie shows fairly well. In these three, we see the need to 'develop' these centers since from the beginning these do not function or work in them or only work inefficiently and therefore these three have to be 'transformed' or 'energized'. We see that these three 'center's in relation to 'DOROTHY' have to do battle with the 'WIZARD' plus deal with two WITCHES and a few other things. DOROTHY, of course, with her dog,TOTO, wants to get back to KANSAS from whence she was whisked by a cyclone/tornado.              

I shall not delve deeper into this story but suggest merely that you read it in the original, first, on the literal level, then on the intellectual level, and then on the emotional level,etc. Try to see how the story affects you, if it does, and OBSERVE YOURSELF as you do this, especially under differing conditions, when sitting, standing, walking, lying down, etc. and when others are sure to disturb your reading or some other interruptions can occur.   Be aware or you thoughts and your feelings and sense certain things in your body as you do this 'exercise'. Then try to recount everything and REMEMBER YOURSELF.  

THE FOURTH LECTURE OF P.D. OUSPENSKY

I tried to discuss this under a new blog topic but somehow it failed to upload or to be saved and so I shall have to re-start as best I can, the discussion of this FOURTH LECTURE from THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN'S POSSIBLE EVOLUTION found in my paperback copy which I am using at present. The FOURTH LECTURE begins with the the study of 'CENTERS' and and the observation of their FUNCTIONS which most who begin to do this study do not understand, appreciate, and often dismiss or ignore, the VALUE of their experiences and observations,especially when they discuss such with those who are not connected with, interested in, or who have other 'theories and opinions' of all kinds, about the FOURTH WAY,THE WORK, THE SYSTEM,ETC.  The study and observation of the FUNCTIONS OF CENTERS will reveal that they work at DIFFERENT SPEEDS which means that they have DIFFERENT TIMES.   Since the slowest of the centers is THE INTELLECTUAL CENTER and its time we think is the ONLY TIME THAT EXISTS, that is, ORDINARY TIME. To understand how centers work at different speeds,it will be necessary to give some examples as to how to understand this from a scientific point of view and from other non-WORK or 4TH WAY

THE FOURTH LECTURE OF MR. OUSPENSKY

In the previous blog, I discussed briefly the THIRD LECTURE as contained in THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN'S POSSIBLE EVOLUTION by .P.D. OUSPENSKY in the paperback edition I have and am using now. In this blog I wish to discuss the FOURTH LECTURE and briefly consider the subject of TIME and CENTERS to emphasize some things that I consider of importance in entering and attempting to work in or on THE FOURTH WAY,which,as a 'blanket' to cover all the facets and topics of this, contains many things not always found or discussed in the 'canori .  The study of 'centers' begins with the observation of their 'functions' and the differences in their 'speeds'. Moreover, we have to know the VALUE of our experiences as well as the nature or type of our 'OBSERVATIONS' which we tend to overlook or ignore or dismiss when we express such to others who do not share the aims of this work.

THE 3RD LECTURE OF MR. OUSPENSKY

I wish to discuss the THIRD LECTURE OF MR. OUSPENSKY which is found in his book,entitled: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN'S POSSIBLE EVOLUTION.   In my copy which is around 1981, although I had an earlier copy that I do not have here where I am now, the work was copyrighted in 1950,1973,1981 by Tatiana Nagro, and this copy is a Vintage Books publication.   You should also read the Publisher's note on this volume to get a better picture.I wish to quote from this chapter:: "A very good description of man's mechanicalness was given the so-called 'PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGY' of the second part of the nineteenth century."                           Mr. Ouspensky then continues to get to the heart of the matter, which in recent years has received a number of experimental attentions and discoveries that I shall further discuss.  These tend to fall under the topic of 'SENSORY DEPRIVATION' which takes several forms and considerations. Mr. Ouspensky discusses this topic but in his time, little had been done to extend what he meant and felt was the gist of this sort of thing, but now that has changed somewhat a bit drastically since he wrote on this subject.   It is my intention to cover some of this ground since I feel it substantiates what Mr. Ouspensky said and wrote about THE FOURTH WAY and its implications have somewhat of a profound significance for the ideas and work that Mr. Gurdjieff brought to the West. Of this I shall add more to the discussion when I have more time.                                 I have an 1886 volume entitled OUTLINES OF PSYCHOLOGY by  Hermann Lotze which have much to say about CONSCIOUSNESS and sensation and other things of that time which are still relevant, perhaps, to this discussion. I do not have the other significant work by HARTMANN on CONCIOUSNESS here with me and will have to locate my copy wherever it is among my many volumes on such subjects. In the meantime, may I suggest those who are interested in finding out more about all of this, that you read the above works by Mr. Ouspensky and, if possible, that of the Lectures (DICTATED PORTIONS ) of Hermann Lotze.                                                                                          

NAMING THE ANIMAL

NAMING THE ANIMAL, or even the plants or minerals, as ADAM, THE FIRST MAN, is said to have done at the behest or suggestion, or perhaps even command, of GOD, that multiform DEITY in the GARDEN, WHOSE NAME IS NAMELESS but can be pronounced, IS NOT SEEING them. Naming teh bird, the tree, the insect, the mountain, the river, the seas,etc. is NOT KNOWING them... NAMING IS NOT KNOWING.....but a label attached to a material form or some thing tangible....as well as intangible and 'spiritual','mystic' etc. as many think along those lines and satisfy themselves they 'really know' and therefore associate things, objects, items, etc. with the words they spout and call out or invoke as the case may be.

TO BE AWARE OF PRESENCE

TO BE AWARE OF PRESENCE IS NOT TO NAME OR DESCRIBE IT- all of this is Wordless-NON-VERBAL, NON-VOCAL...