Saturday, January 16, 2010, 10 A.M. – 1 P.M.
Baltimore, Maryland

Location:
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
5603 North Charles Street
21210

Registration: $90 on or before Thursday, January 14. $125 at the door.
To reserve a place, send your electronic payment below. Use your PayPal receipt as your entrance ticket.

This event can be purchased and viewed at Gurdjieff-Legacy.org.

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Purchase this book at Gurdjieff Legacy Bookstore.

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Friday, December 18 to Monday, December 21, 2009
Delray Beach, Florida
30 minutes from the W. Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale airports

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.

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Friday, September 4 to Monday, September 7, 2009
San Juan Bautista, California
(1 hour from San Jose Airport)

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.

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The details are located on Gurdjieff Legacy.

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Location:
The Musical Source
1409 15th St. NW (lower level), corner of P Street
20005
Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle stop;
or Blue & Orange Line, MacPherson Square stop

Date:
Wednesday May 20, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

If you have questions, email Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086.

Please join us as author William Patrick Patterson discusses his new book Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. The evening includes guided meditation and a taste of Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™.

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Technology is the new ideology. We live almost totally enframed by it. To control it, we must understand it. Technology is not different from us, something alien. It is man’s rational part developed to an extraordinary binary degree. As it is a part of us, to understand it we must first understand ourselves. We must seek to know our own essence, our true purpose and meaning. Technology faces us with the urgent call to explore anew the primordial question – Who am I? Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time explores technology’s challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. It illustrates how the seminal teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way meets the challenge of Technology and gives the esoteric keys to self-awakening in a radically changing world-time.

William Patrick Patterson is the founder/director of The Gurdjieff Studies Program and the founder/editor of The Gurdjieff Journal (est. 1992), the first domestic and international Fourth Way journal. He has led groups, as well as given seminars and talks throughout the United States for many years. He is the author of seven books on The Fourth Way and is the director-writer-narrator of the award-winning Fourth Way video trilogy, The Life & Significance of G. I. Gurdjieff.

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Date:
Thursday March 5, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

If you have questions, email Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086.

Please join us as author William Patrick Patterson discusses his new book Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. The evening includes guided meditation and a taste of Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™.

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Technology is the new ideology. We live almost totally enframed by it. To control it, we must understand it. Technology is not different from us, something alien. It is man’s rational part developed to an extraordinary binary degree. As it is a part of us, to understand it we must first understand ourselves. We must seek to know our own essence, our true purpose and meaning. Technology faces us with the urgent call to explore anew the primordial question – Who am I? Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time explores technology’s challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. It illustrates how the seminal teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way meets the challenge of Technology and gives the esoteric keys to self-awakening in a radically changing world-time.

William Patrick Patterson is the founder/director of The Gurdjieff Studies Program and the founder/editor of The Gurdjieff Journal (est. 1992), the first domestic and international Fourth Way journal. He has led groups, as well as given seminars and talks throughout the United States for many years. He is the author of seven books on The Fourth Way and is the director-writer-narrator of the award-winning Fourth Way video trilogy, The Life & Significance of G. I. Gurdjieff.

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Date: Thursday February 26, 7:00 p.m.

If you have questions, email Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086.

Please join us as author William Patrick Patterson discusses his new book Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. The evening includes guided meditation and a taste of Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™.

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Technology is the new ideology. We live almost totally enframed by it. To control it, we must understand it. Technology is not different from us, something alien. It is man’s rational part developed to an extraordinary binary degree. As it is a part of us, to understand it we must first understand ourselves. We must seek to know our own essence, our true purpose and meaning. Technology faces us with the urgent call to explore anew the primordial question – Who am I? Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time explores technology’s challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. It illustrates how the seminal teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way meets the challenge of Technology and gives the esoteric keys to self-awakening in a radically changing world-time.

William Patrick Patterson is the founder/director of The Gurdjieff Studies Program and the founder/editor of The Gurdjieff Journal (est. 1992), the first domestic and international Fourth Way journal. He has led groups, as well as given seminars and talks throughout the United States for many years. He is the author of seven books on The Fourth Way and is the director-writer-narrator of the award-winning Fourth Way video trilogy, The Life & Significance of G. I. Gurdjieff.

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The details are located on Gurdjieff Legacy.

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Carlo’s life, what he learned from don Juan, what was taken from Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way—rephrased to hide its origin, his strengths and weaknesses are all explored in The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda.

Of particular interest was the chapter Ideas & Sources. Carlos appears to have definitely learned something from don Juan but he used many of the ideas from The Fourth Way and expressing them in sorceric terms. Unfortunately sometimes Carlos expressed those ideas in personal terms.

Even though Carlos broke the human mold it appears there were many things or something he still did not understand or was not aware of about himself. In The Summing Up it speaks of his guilt, the guilt of his killing someone or something he judged as equivalent. It appears to me he really didn’t travel the full path of heart as he spoke of, or only up to a certain point, but was diverted by the guilt and judgment he could not absorb.

The book is well worth reading, especially anyone who has heard of Carlos or read some of Carlos’ books. It sheds light on a lot of what I did not understand about Carlos Castaneda when I first read his books and even for years after.

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