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Dagobah Resident
Thank you all for a very enlightening session. It seems that we, (and by we I mean the the earth and humanity), are entering an entirely new phase where institutions, ecosystems, belief systems, and other sacred cows will no longer be relevant.
What brings this home to me are the major changes happening in SOTT's mission:
The quickening of SOTT'S responses to the oncoming events keep taking me by surprise and waking me up to the gravity of what lies before us. I understand more fully now why we must do the breathing exercises and the prayer to gain control over the emotional center.
I have a question about preparedness concerning directions that Gurdjieff gives his students for a particular exercise which he tells them on page 111 of his book Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am':
Is this something we should be doing? If so, could someone explain exactly what is involved? I can't figure it out.
Then, in the next paragraph, Gurdjieff chides his students by saying that they can not tell the difference between the "feeling" and
"sensing".
This seems to be an important distinction for Gurdjieff as he continues by saying:
What brings this home to me are the major changes happening in SOTT's mission:
(L) Yeah, I've thought of some things lately. I have thought that we ought to make SOTT.net a project of the Fellowship - openly. It should begin to incline itself toward reporting the news with an open PC slant.
L) Yeah, open the flood gates on that, and also I was thinking for awhile that we ought to keep the C's completely separate from PC. Now I'm wondering if...
(L) The C's are the inspiration for PC. They're the 10% inspiration. We have to include that 10%. I mean, I was thinking I should write an article and say that okay, I'm the founder, and the group and I came to the idea to found this organization because of this inspiration and this research which led to the study of Christianity. I've always been obsessed with studying it deeply, trying to find out what's the real story. So here it is! This is what we've found.
The quickening of SOTT'S responses to the oncoming events keep taking me by surprise and waking me up to the gravity of what lies before us. I understand more fully now why we must do the breathing exercises and the prayer to gain control over the emotional center.
I have a question about preparedness concerning directions that Gurdjieff gives his students for a particular exercise which he tells them on page 111 of his book Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am':
Gurdjieff said:...only this exercise may on the one hand correct your errors of the past, and on the other hand prepare all that is required in the future
Is this something we should be doing? If so, could someone explain exactly what is involved? I can't figure it out.
Gurdieff said:First, all one's attention must be divided approximately into three equal parts, each of these parts must be concentrated on one of the three fingers of the right or the left hand, for instance the forefinger, the third and the fourth, constating in ond finger- the result proceeding in it of the organic process called "sensing", in another-the result of the process called "feeling", and with the third-making any rhythmical movement and at the same time automatically conducting with the flowing of mental association a sequential or varied manner of counting."
Then, in the next paragraph, Gurdjieff chides his students by saying that they can not tell the difference between the "feeling" and
"sensing".
This seems to be an important distinction for Gurdjieff as he continues by saying:
Since an understanding of this difference between these two impulses is very important for my subsequent indications concerning all the exercises required for you, as well as concerning the real nature of the psyche of man. pages 113-114