Cassiopea Forum as an Esoteric School?

[slowone]

Hello, I am new and have just begun to post on the Forum.

I posted on the whats on your mind that I was thinking of joing a Gurdjieff group which meets locally to me.

My concerns are its intention and whether it is of a beneficial nature or not. As Gurdjieff seemed to say that The work needed to be done within some kind of school I am/was keen to meet similar minded people to work with.

Could I consider a continuing involvement/interest in this Forum and related sites as a modern version of the "school"?

I don't feel I have the necessary discernment yet to be confident of meeting like minded people "out there" and not find I am being led down the wrong path as it were.

I dont know if I should have posted this on my original post or if its ok to start a new one in a new topic. Please forgive if I have got it wrong.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Could I consider a continuing involvement/interest in this Forum and related sites as a modern version of the "school"?

I don't feel I have the necessary discernment yet to be confident of meeting like minded people "out there" and not find I am being led down the wrong path as it were.

You have to keep in mind that many people enter "schools" and learn nothing. When speaking of schools, Gurdjieff was not just talking about a social environment where students are under a teacher. A "school" is a particular dynamic that comes about when a person interacts with another person, or people who see more. The former is the "student", the latter is the "teacher". However, there are preconditions for this dynamic. The "teacher" must be more "developed" than the student. And the student must have the desire to learn, and the capability of learning. There is no escape from prison on one's own. Only one who has already escaped can show the one still trapped.

As for whether this forum is such a school, I would say that it can be. For those who want to learn and grow, there is that possibility.

 

[slowone]

:)Thank you for replying. Thats kind of what I was hoping. It's really exiting reading the forum. So many threads so little time to read them all.

I'll keep going and keep trying to learn.

namaste