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ibell:
When Gurdjieff refers to "magnifying distant cosmic centres" with a "medium" how do you know he's talking about
trance jockeys rather than a physical "medium" such as water or crystal?

podcast link:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/dl.php?link=pentagonstrike,co,uk%sott%podcast%sott_podcast_65_20060818,mp3

m:

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What exactly is that?

ibell:
Channeler. Relayer of the wisdom of Chief Wigaboo from Planet Zog. "Medium" as in human medium.

kenlee:

--- Quote from: ibell ---When Gurdjieff refers to "magnifying distant cosmic centres" with a "medium" how do you know he's talking about
trance jockeys rather than a physical "medium" such as water or crystal?

podcast link:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/dl.php?link=pentagonstrike,co,uk%sott%podcast%sott_podcast_65_20060818,mp3
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I'm not sure what Gurdjieff meant by "magnifying distant cosmic centers" but I found something in the Cassiopaea glossary that might relate to it. Also, in Gurdjieff's book Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson he spoke of a 'teskooano,' [telescope] in his 'observatory'.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=709&p=2

In the Glossary we have this on 'thought centers' :
http://glossary.cassiopaea.com/glossary.php?id=23


--- Quote ---In the Cassiopaea material, this refers to an archetypal idea. The idea is related to the idea of a Platonic ideal form of something, existing outside of space and time.

The ray of creation starts with a division in two distinct thought centers, these being of 'being' and 'non-being', also known as service to others/radiance/expansion and service to self/absorption/contraction. The term used will depend on the context and on what aspect of this fundamental duality one is discussing.

These thought centers then divide and branch into all conceivable variations of these themes. A thought center is not limited to any particular density. They can be thought of as orthogonal to density, with the essential idea of the thought center finding a density specific manifestation at each level.

For example, a subdivision of the thought center of non-being can manifest in 2nd density as the crocodile species, in 3rd as a certain type of psychopath and in 4th density as the 'lizzie.' The invariant idea here is a form of predation.

An individual can be seen as a crossroads of thought centers. The individual's free will consists in selecting alignment to one thought center or another. Thought centers interact with creation by being expressed by beings.

The concept is closely related to the Sufi idea of 'name of God.' The Ra material also discusses the theme under the name 'distorsion of the Law of One.'
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We have more here on thought centers:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/cosmic_cointelpro.htm


--- Quote ---The great Sufi Shaykh Ibn al-'Arabi explains that "imperfection" exists in Creation because "were there no imperfection, the perfection of existence would be imperfect." From the point of view of Sheer Being, there is nothing but good. But Infinite Potential to BE includes - by definition of the word "infinite" - the potential to not be. And so, Infinite Potential "splits" into Thought Centers of Creation and Thought Centers of non-being. It can be said that Infinite Potential is fundamentally Binary - on or off - to be or not to be. That is the first "division."

Since absolute non-being is an impossible paradox in terms of the source of Infinite Potential to BE, the half of the consciousness of Infinite Potential that constitute the IDEAS of non-being - for every idea of manifestation, there is a corresponding idea for that item of creation to NOT manifest - "falls asleep" for lack of a better term. Its "self observation" is predicated upon consciousness that can only "mimic" death. Consciousness that mimics death then "falls" and becomes Primal Matter. What this means is that the "self observing self" at the level of the Master of the Universe is constituted of this initial division between Being and Non-being which is, again, only the initial division - the on/off, the yes/no - of creation. You could picture this as an open eye observing a closed eye. It has been represented for millennia in the yin-yang symbol, which, even on the black half that represents "sleeping consciousness that is matter," you can see the small white dot of "being" that represents to us that absolute non-existence is not possible. There is only "relative" non-existence.

These "thoughts of being and non-being" interact with one another - the observer and the observed - like a viewer looking into a mirror. Creation manifests between the viewer and the mirror. It is at once real - because it consists of matter informed by consciousness - and unreal because it is ultimately composed of only consciousness acting on consciousness.

At our level of reality, the understanding that "nothing is real," as has been promulgated by gurus and teachers down through history, is as useless as saying "gravity isn't real." Such considerations are useful only for expansion of perception. They are not useful for practical application since the energies of creation apparently transduce through several "levels" before they meet in the middle, so to say, in our third density reality. Organic life exists at the "crossroads" of the myriad ideas or thought centers of being and non-being. As such, they have the capacity to transduce energies "up" or "down" depending on the "consciousness energy directors" of that unit. And again, there are apparently two broad divisions: directed toward being/ observing, or directed toward non-being/ mirroring. This division manifests across all levels of organic life, including human beings. Human beings exist to transduce cosmic energies of creation via organic life. Our "higher selves" are the directors of this transducing of cosmic energies, and the direction in which the energy "flows" is determined by the activities of these higher selves. Against the opposition of those forces seeking to "capture" energy of consciousness and induce it to the "sleep of non-being," which is gravitational in a certain sense, the energies of consciousness seek to "inform" matter via awakening the self-awareness of those organic units on earth that are capable of resistance to the gravity of non-being.

As self-aware "transducing units," the human being has the potential for going either way - toward intensified being, or toward intensified non-being. In this sense, humans also function very much like a lens that can be "adjusted" like a telescope. It can be dialed to select the viewing range, which can be distant and inclusive of more "space/time," or it can be shortened to only see what is up close and evident in the material world. In other words, our first and most fundamental choice is to choose what we SEE.

When we choose what we SEE - and here we do NOT mean with the physical eyes or even psychically, but rather a more inclusive term that suggests whether or not we are capable of objectivity or subjectivity - we are receiving impressions. Impressions can become knowledge if assimilated. Knowledge leads to awareness. Knowledge and awareness then direct emotions, which then energize actions in the organic world. This is the transducing of energies of Cosmic Thought Centers.
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Possibly Gurdjieff's interest in mediums might relate to his seeing the significance of superluminal comunications with the 'creative future' where a person with appropriate 'sensing organs' acts as an antenna (an antenna sends and receives radio waves) and 'receivers' who receive it and amplify the signal as you would have in an electronics receiver (or something like that).

ibell:
Laura was attributing great significance to Gurdjieff's reference to "medium" in this context but are there any references by Gurdjieff to "mediums" in the human-channeller sense elsewhere that would suport it. "Medium" could mean anything in so "esoteric" a context. Glass. Music. Dance.

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