Tag Archives: Fourth Way
Winter Seminar
with William Patrick Patterson
Gurdjieff’s Complete Teaching of The Fourth Way Part 1
FROM MANY SELVES, TO CONSCIOUS SELF, TO INDIVIDUAL SELF, TO THE SELF
Friday, December 2 to Monday, December 5, 2011
La Casa de Maria Retreat Center
Santa Barbara, California
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.
For more information please visit Gurdjieff Legacy.
Labor Day Weekend Seminar
with William Patrick Patterson
Fourth Way Theme
Friday, September 2 to Monday, September 5, 2011
St. Francis Retreat Center
San Juan Bautista, California
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.
Deep Diving Intensive
September 5 – September 8
For more information please visit Gurdjieff Legacy.
Fourth Way Seminar
with William Patrick Patterson
Friday, May 27 to Monday, May 30, 2011
Loyola Retreat House
Morristown, New Jersey
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.
For more information see Gurdjieff Legacy.
The new issue of The Gurdjieff Journal is available. Here is a listing of articles pertinent to our times.
In Search of The Soul Part XI: Taoism
Has esoteric Taoism devolved into the pseudo-esoteric. Is there a soul in Taoism?
The Devil’s Interval
Banned by the Catholic Church, the “Devil’s Interval,” the tritone, has been embraced by modern music.
Talks with Katherine Mansfield
Gurdjieff at Taliesin
Gurdjieff’s visit to Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife, Olgivanna, a former pupil, shook the rafters.
Working With Instability
How do we protect ourselves and the Work during instability?
Book Review: Gurdjieff & Hypnosis
Is this an exploration of Gurdjieff’s ideas or another ad hominem attempt by certain Sufis to invalidate Gurdjieff and The Fourth Way?
Film Review: What Do Women Want?
Three films explore the lives of contemporary women and the questions of importance to them.
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Working With Energies
Saturday, January 22, 2011
10 A.M. – 1 P.M.
Baltimore, Maryland
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
5603 North Charles Street
21210
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™ and dialogue, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Wear loose clothing. Bring a mat and a sitting pillow. Open to all levels of simplicity.
Registration: $75 on or before Thursday, January 20. $90 at the door.
To reserve a place, send your electronic payment below. Use your PayPal receipt as your entrance ticket.
If you have questions, email us at: Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086.
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Gurdjieff Music Recital
Friday, January 21, 2011
7:30 P.M.
Towson, Maryland
Donation: $10.00
For location information, call (800) 470-3086.
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Self-Knowledge & Being
In the Technological World-Time Part I
Friday, December 3 to Monday, December 6, 2010
Santa Barbara, California
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.
Because space is limited and past seminars have filled quickly, please make your reservation early. The total cost of tuition, lodging (double occupancy) and meals is $675. Space is reserved with a deposit of $300.
See Gurdjieff Legacy.
The Fourth Way—The Spiritual Teaching For Our Time
Wednesday January 19, 2011, 7:00 P.M.
Location:
Ukazoo Books
730 Dulaney Valley Road
Towson, MD 21204
(410) 832-2665
Donation: $10
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Location: To Be Announced
Please visit Gurdjieff Legacy for more information.
Being-Partkdolg-Duty
&
Being-Obligolnian-Duty
Friday, March 11 to Monday, March 14, 2011
Tucson, Arizona
Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.
Because space is limited and past seminars have filled quickly, please make your reservation early. The total cost of tuition, lodging (double occupancy) and meals is $675. Space is reserved with a deposit of $300.
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It appears the Mayans used sweat houses some 3,000 years ago, even before the Roman baths. Why would they have a sweat house when they lived in the tropics? What does Gurdjieff say on this subject? He writes in All and Everything about the five Being-Obligolnian-Strivings, the first of which is ”To have in their ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.” In this connection he also writes specifically of this custom of going to the sauna or as he states it using the “hammam”:
“In order to clearly understand the necessity for this second custom . . . the process of their nourishment with the second being-food, which your favorites call ‘breath of air,’ proceeds in them, and this nourishment is taken in not only through the organs of breathing, but also through what are called the ‘pores’ present in their skin.
“Through the ‘pores’ of the skin of the beings, not only the new second being-food enters, but also through several of these pores, after the transformation of this second being-food, those parts of this food are given off from the skin which are either no longer necessary for the planetary body of the beings or which are already the results of its transformation.
“These unnecessary parts should be given off from the said ‘pores’ of the skin of beings by evaporation gradually by themselves . . .
“Now, when your favorites invented the covering of themselves with what are called ‘clothes,’ then, since these clothes of theirs began to hinder the normal elimination or evaporation of those parts of the second being-food unnecessary for the planetary body . . . they, condensing, began to form in these various pores of their skin the accumulation of a certain ‘oily-something.’
“From that time on, among a number of other factors, this also began to aid in the formation on this ill-fated planet of innumerable and various illnesses which taken together are the chief cause of the gradual shortening of the length of the existence of these unfortunates.
“a wise and learned being by name ‘Amabakhlootr,’ also from the continent Asia there, once clearly constated during this conscious observations of various facts proceeding around him, that this ‘oily-something’ which collects in the pores of the skin, has also a maleficent influence on the general functioning of the whole planetary body . . .
“As a result of the investigations and long deliberations of this Amambakhlootr . . . they arrived at the conclusion and became convinced of the impossibility of obtaining that beings similar of themselves should not wear clothes, and that it was necessary to seek a method for artificially eliminating from the pores of the skin these remains of the ‘second-food’ . . .
“Their further elucidatory experiments showed them that the cleansing of the ‘pores’ of the skin from these deposits was possible only by means of slow warming, thanks to which, this deposited ‘oily-something’ acquires the possibility of gradually dissolving and being eliminated from the pores of the skins of beings.
“Well, for this purpose, they then invented and actualized in practice special rooms which later came to be called hammams . . .”
New York Times Article Before Rome’s Baths, There Was the Maya Sweat House
