Hi Wu Wei Wu,
The general approach of this forum is to do research and network to find answers to questions that arise instead of going straight to the C's. If you are willing to share what you have found, then members can look into it and provide feedback.
Hah, a good suggestion by the 'inhabitant'. :P
Since we're going in that direction I will reveal on of the interesting things I've found. I would certainly enjoy the groups insight into it, yours included.
I have to say I find it a bit disingenuous of you to play hide and seek with us about what you have found.
It might appear that way, but its important to recognize that my discovery was the stimulus for asking the original question. The question itself does not refer to my discovery specifically. I had not originally intended to ask anything about my discovery, but since we have moved in that direction and I have clearly piqued interest, I have no problem sharing.
This question makes me ponder... would you give more credit to a school if it were a temple?
A physical school, innacessible, with lots of initiations to be part of? Maybe in the mountains, in Tibet?
There are plenty of such schools, I'm sure. However, my experience and approach has been heavily coloured by the Fourth Way, so unless such a school maintains certain characteristics in common with the Fourth Way, then no credit will be given. Appearances of the school matter little if it is fake, and exposure to Fourth Way ideas makes the path of the fakir, monk, or yogi a lot less appealing.
Because, if you have a great resource, at the touch of your fingers, and you disregard it, after so little interaction with the network, makes me wonder how you would value a "true" 4th Way school.
While I agree this is an excellent resource and have used it extensively (it is also literally at the touch of my fingers :P) lets not jump to judgemental conclusions about how much or how little we value the teachings of the Fourth Way School. Lets not make hefty assumptions of character as, after all, I've had comparatively little interaction with the network.
Even if this forum were not a genuine fourth way school, look at what has been accomplished here.
People actually do change around these parts, you just have to search to see.
For me, the proof is in the pudding, so even if this forum were not a genuine 4th way school, I would still value it above all those schools filled with "mysticism", misunderstanding and rigidity.
It almost seems as if your trying to defend the Cassiopaea forum, of which there is no need. I have learned much from it as well, its an endless and growing repository of information and experience, carefully sifted through the mesh of knowledge and scrutiny.
On the subject of whether or not this is a genuine 4th way school, it certainly seems genuine to me. There is of course the lack of a 'master' but the 'group mirror' does compensate somewhat for this, and of course the Cs appear more than capable of filling that void.
It appears I stirred something up, which was not the intention. The question remains just as it originally was. Nevertheless lets continue onto the matter which has stirred so much curiosity.
The group in question the 'The Divine Science' group. Given the nature of the group, I had thought that it wasn't a totally suitable topic for this forum, but here we are.
A link to the site is here: _https://thedivinescience. org/ [link deactivated by moderator]
At first I thought there would be no comparison between it and the fourth way but increasing familiarity with the school and its students have revealed many parallels. Every requirement I remember for being a Fourth Way School has been fulfilled, including working with others in a school format, participation of elder students with younger, mind-body-emotion simultaneous development with practices that are nearly identical to some Fourth Way ones, although they come from a starkly different perspective. The focus on understanding what your doing before doing anything is also there.
As was said, 'the proof is in the pudding', and it has produced significant changes in its students as well. I cannot go into any specifics on the school since I have agreed not to.
But this leads to my original question, which has much wider implications then whether or not the TDS group is valid.
I vaguely remember that the Cs mention that there are other groups moving in the same direction of self development. So I shall ask:
Do Fourth Way Schools exist in the modern day, separate of lineage Gurdjieff and his students?
