on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HyR-77RrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHaZ-NZwf6Y&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOPq6oYzLjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kx4-0FoPuA&t=56s
PRAYER FOR LIGHT AND HEALING
With practice and experience
can be discovered freedom in
action and discrimination in
this internet fourth way and
not by unquestioning obedience,
negative acquiescence, and blind
following.
The "child" in me, what is
spiritual, is role played through
prayer in this video.
PRAYER FOR A NEW LEVEL OF HEALING
"It is prayer about reaching a higher level.
'May thy kingdom come': May I come into thy
kingdom: May the will of heaven, of a higher
level, be done on me as earth. And the last
request not to be tempted too much, beyond
one's strength, concerns that endeavor, for
many things stand in the way, and, as it is
put in the allegories of the Old Testament,
God wrestles with Man and seeks to overcome
and even slay him. This is how the struggle
to lift oneself off the level one is at, up
to a new level, is expressed. It is as if
this very thing one prays for and wishes
becomes an enemy, opposing every step made.
But if we remember that the reaching of a
higher level means a transformation and
re-birth of oneself, the idea becomes
plain. A man AS HE IS cannot reach a
higher level. He cannot approach God
as he is. The higher level is bound
to oppose him as long as he remains
the same kind of man."
--Maurice Nicoll
--p83-92, new man
COSMIC TENSION
"I now say the same to you,
and add there is nothing to
be done. When faced with an
event arising from forces
immeasurably greater than
one's own, one must submit.
"The only question is,
which of the alternatives
you mentioned should be chosen—-
that is, to wait or add to our
journey by a detour."
--Gurdjieff
--ch 3, cause of a delay
voluntary attention
In order to understand the idea
of "voluntary attention" and the
hidden influence of higher forces,
we must become aware of the
existence of what is called the
"stream of unconsciousness" an
involuntary series of automatically
arising moods and mentations evoked
by association, producing a continuous
dream state which we neither enter nor
leave, and in which we have continuous
existence with at least part of our
unconscious attention.
It is into this stream of unconsciousness
that our conscious attention involuntarily
falls when our body is at rest, sometimes
more so than at other times. We refer to
this as our "dream world".
This unending series of events
grouped together under the name
"dreams" occurs continuously both
day and night through our so-called
"sleeping" and "waking" cycles, and
that it has a definite and profound effect
on us which can be mental, emotional,
organic, or all three. The Higher Bodies
Astral and Causal can be deeply affected
by this continuous stream of imaginary
activities.
Under ordinary conditions the sequence
of events ... our subjective activities within
them, our participation in them, our sensory
perceptions of them including tactile, emotional,
and psychological and their effects on us ranging
from inconsequential to profound ... are totally
involuntary, that is to say, over the form and
content of our dreams we have no voluntary
influence, and over the personal and
impersonal phenomena of dreams
we have no voluntary authority.
Under ordinary circumstances we can
neither initiate action in the dream nor
alter the action and sequence of events,
once begun. The momentum of dreams
can be said to have greater Will than any
mental or emotional Will we can bring to
bear on them, although from time to time
our ordinary Will from the involuntary
motor center can furnish the automatic
organic Will necessary to awaken from
a nightmare or during an organic
emergency.
In order to separate our attention
from the dream, the crux of the secret
depends upon the knowledge that our
dreams are continuous even in the so-
called "waking state", that they have
continuous and sometimes profound
mental, emotional, physical effects
upon us, and that under ordinary
circumstances we cannot exercise
either voluntary Will or voluntary
attention over our dreams. It can
be easily seen that dreams are the
hidden source of our mental,
emotional, and physical states,
even to the extent that they
sometimes can cause
organic illness,
imaginary memories,
and sentimentality.
To exercise voluntary Will over
dreams is the beginning of formation
of the Astral Body, it is a definite sign
of its formation. To the Higher Body
belongs "voluntary attention" and the
ability to isolate, view, as well as
participate in the events of the
dream world.
To produce this same form of
attention with the ordinary attention
of the body, we would have to develop
this ability completely artificially by
way of "diffused" vision and
attention by way of which all
objects are equally present to
our attention. Eventually, with
continuous practice, this artificial
form of a higher level of attention
would produce effects contributing
to the formation of the Higher Body.
And something was written about this
in Beelzebub's Tales to His
Grandson in Chapter 18:
"My first meeting with the three-
centered being who later became my
'essence-friend,' and thanks to whom
I saw these experiments with the
'Omnipresent Okidanokh,' . . . "
Beelzebub's observations of
the experiments performed by
Gornahoor Harharkh helped him
to arrive at very important
"increases" of his understanding
of the omnipresent and everywhere-
penetrating Okidanokh by the
experimental, that is, "artificial"
blending and dissociating of all the
three fundamental parts of Okidanokh
from every kind of surplanetary and
intraplanetary process, including
the process of self-perfecting of
the individual three-brained being
man, and to study the specific
properties of each part separately
in its manifestations of a man, of,
namely, YOU, THE READER,
which is a process of
self-study:
What is "artificial" stated above
and also by Gurdjieff in Views and
is why Gurdjieff wrote in the
subjective "chosen language," a
sort of "artificial language" of
Beelzebub's in his tales to his
grandson:
"In most of us this common language
I speak about is irretrievably lost.
The only thing left us is to establish
a connection in a roundabout,
'fraudulent' way. And these
indirect, 'FRAUDULENT,' ARTIFICIAL
connections must be very subjective,
since they must depend on a man's
character and the form his inner
makeup has taken.
"So now we must establish this
subjectivity, and find a program
of work, in order to make connections
with the other parts. Establishing this
subjectivity is also complicated; it
cannot be arrived at at once, not
until a man is thoroughly analyzed
and pulled to pieces, not until one
has probed 'as far as his
grandmother.'
"Therefore on the one hand we shall
go on establishing this subjectivity
for each man separately, and on the
other we shall begin general work
possible for everyone--practical
exercises. There are certain
subjective methods and there
are general methods. So we
shall try to find subjective
methods and at the same time
try to apply general methods."
--Gurdjieff
--p221-227, views
Djartklom has to do with the
evolutionary process of individual
self-change, self-perfecting, by way
of the dispersal of the three
fundamental sources from
which the "individual-in-
potential" originally
obtained its prime
involutionary
arising and then
according to the first
peculiarity of the "Omnipresent-
Okidanokh-Active-Element" the said
dispersal into the three fundamental
sources from which it obtained its
prime arising, and only then do
these sources, each separately,
give the beginning for an
independent concentration of
three separate corresponding
formations, within the given
cosmic unit. In connection
with the process of individual
evolutionary self-change, referred
to as a "given cosmic unit," Gurdjieff
formulated it according to the style of
writing of his that we see in Beelzebub's
Tales in general and in Chapter 18, THE
ARCH PREPOSTEROUS, in particular
and in connection with self-study, the
following:
"'All these special appliances that
I invented have enabled me to obtain
certain extremely important clarifications
about the omnipresent and everywhere-
penetrating Okidanokh, because they
made it possible for me first to
collect all three fundamental parts
of Okidanokh from every kind of
surplanetary and intraplanetary
process and then to blend them
artificially into a whole; and
finally to dissociate them, also
artificially, and to study the
specific properties of each part
separately in its manifestations.'"
--ch 18, arch preposterous
and
"And only after the said cosmic unit
has been completely destroyed do these
holy sources of the sacred Triamazikamno,
localized in the 'Omnipresent-Active-
Element-Okidanokh,' reblend and they
are again transformed into 'Okidanokh,'
but having now another quality of
Vivifyingness of Vibrations."
--ch 17, arch-absurd
Gurdjieff said that it is not possible
to perceive directly the results of the
blending of higher influences with those
processes that connect affirming forces
together with denying forces
. . . this may explain the irruption
from the "collective depths" of clairvoyance
and archetypal phenomena and other so-called
"psychic phenomena." The danger here is
putting meanings on the visions that arise
archetypal and clairvoyantly in terms of
ordinary consciousness, in terms of life
of itself, but must be regarded as a thin,
light and airy "something," as a sort of
"artificial light," and that this something
that arises is not important but we must
direct our attention to help this
something in the brain to flow towards
the solar plexus. What arises in the
brain is not important. The moment you
start doing that, then you are no longer
remembering yourself and it is only by
self-remembering, either from conscious
sources or from accidental mechanical
results, that you have any ability at
all to observe and separate out what is
false in association with the aforesaid
psychic phenomena . . . only then is the
real world revealed to you and you are
then liberated from the unfortunate
results of conscious-evil-manipulations
of living archetypal phenomena, that is
to say, living law-conformably according
to laws of a higher reality transcendent
of the ordinary. Angels, for example,
can appear winged archetypal from
within and all around you as
messengers.
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
"'But since an "able Reason"—-my own,
in this case—-has by intention artificially
excluded the third part of Okidanokh, known
as "parijrahatnatius," the process is now
taking place between only two of its
independent parts, which science calls
"anodnatius" and "cathodnatius."
Consequently, instead of the law-
conformable results that would issue
from the blending of the three parts, a
non-law-conformable result is now being
actualized ensuing from "the reciprocal
blending of two opposite forces," and
ordinary beings call this result "the
cause of artificial light."
--ch 18, arch preposterous
"RAYS"
SUN NEITHER LIGHTS NOR HEATS
"He pointed to 'something' very much
like the apparatus called a 'voltmeter'
on your planet and said, 'One of the
advantages of my new invention for the
demonstration of this phenomenon is
that in spite of the extraordinary
power of the "force of striving"
now proceeding there, the
"salnichissinooarnian momentum-
vibrations," which should issue from
this process, and which most beings
regard as "rays," do not issue from
the place of their arising, that is,
the interior of this apparatus,
where the particularities of
the Omnipresent Okidanokh
are being studied."