Secrets of Gurdjieff's Fourth Way

We deeply connect with several enduring spiritual exercises of Gurdjieff, at the same time getting a holistic picture of his teachings. These practices can help cope with fear, delusion, and anxiety— and achieve peace in these soul-eroding times. We also decipher many of Gurdjieff’s concepts like the Kundabuffer, the enneagram, food for the moon, and more.

Astral Guest – Alan Francis, author of Secrets of the Fourth Way.

[Lydioski]

I really enjoy this program, discovered a little more Gurdjieff and gave me the decision to continue to read In search of the Miraculous and really start the work. Thank you so much! Your programs are amazing classes in this desert of the reality. I am so grateful for it.

[wendyfoster]

the only thing i can do is smile when he hear your voice - i love your energy - much love and light to you and yours and all you beautiful souls who love this channel

[janebroome]

A deep esoteric work, explained clearly and succinctly here. Very worthy I think of pondering this fourthway work structure in terms of the possibility of the of betterment of human beings. Enjoyed that, will be on the lookout for the next podcast.

[alexismiller]

This guy is excellent love your channel

[unibomberbear]

"Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building to the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all is what it's really all about". - Terence McKenna -

[patriziasaturni]

Very inspiring and positive intro.... I needed and I love it... Thank you :D

[ratchetboo]

Incredible interview.. what a stand up gent

[Liesl_Cigarboxguitar]

Wow, once again what a wonderful show and beautiful insight. I've been following for a few years now and truly feel I've been on a journey with these wonderful heresies at the heart..big love, Alix 💚🌈

[jameswcoppedge]

I had no idea Maurice Nicoll was a Jungian. I first heard about Gurdjieff through one of Neville Goddard’s lectures. Neville stated that Gurdjieff’s work was best understood through Nicoll’s commentaries on the fourth way. And that he (Neville) and Gurdjieff we’re both speaking on esoteric Christianity.

Also cool to know Gurdjieff May have been influenced by Tesla.

[genkisudo]

Great interview with Alan. I think his project in Spain is really interesting

[martin]

“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the Universe, which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language & read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics & its characters are triangles, circles & other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it, without these one wanders about in a dark labyrinth”, Galileo

[DominicJai]

Great interview and discussion. Thanks Miguel, Vance and Alan. ✌️👍😎

[jennifermullins]

I can’t help but stop to listen to any conversation concerning Gurdjieff after reading Whitney Streiber’s “Communion, ” as Streiber studied Gurdjieff and practiced his meditation techniques twenty years before the Visitors arrived to join him in meditation. This is fascinating to me. Thanks for the great show!

[martin]

The Fourth way was clothed in esotericism, pointing towards middle eastern religion, based in western philosophy

[martin]

If you studied philosophy, didn't you notice many of the fourth way teachings, western philosophy was its major source

[raycosmic]

Self-remembering = being aware of being aware.

Addiction is misdirected devotion.

[martin]

Two of the likely sources for the enneagram even indicate it Pythhagoras Tetractys who coined the term philosophy & “ is

[martin]

Essence & personality, Aristotle's substance & attributesMany I's, Plato's ship of state/fools & cave, Kierkegaard, Philip Mainlander, Nietzsche, William James
Man as machines, Descartes
Materialism, Stoicism
Fourth Way, Plato's 3 storied harmonious beehive (reason (impressions), spirit (breathing), appetite (food)) & chariot
Food for the Moon, Plutarch's teachings that after death the soul goes to the Moon, the spirit to the Sun
Before Psychology there was we could call Proto-psychology, mainly in Philosophy
Self-Remembering, Turning around in Plato's cave, Perseus defeating Medusa, Franz Brentano's Awareness of Awareness Thesis, Fichte's subjective self-consciousness, Hermetic caduceus & many, many more

[martin]

The reason it taken so long for people to find the sources of the work, is because people into esotericism & religion don't tend to study western philosophy

[martin]

Intentional suffering, Pythagoras's lesson of the epsilon