Seeing and Believing
The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, speaks of a transcendent, inward ‘seeing.’ From one of Rilke’s letters to a friend: […]
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Dying to Oneself
“Die before you die, so that you do not die when you die.” – Sufi saying – Many spiritual traditions
The Magnetic Center’s Path
Sensitivity to light distinguishes all forms of life: plant, animal, and human, too. Indeed, what the Fourth Way calls the
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Memory and Impressions
Transformation of suffering is called the ‘second conscious shock’ in the Fourth Way. Some call it advanced work. It is a magical opportunity to break down the results of the incoming impression into finer fuel, higher hydrogens, that teach us about the nature of reality.
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What do you love?
A man or woman who can bring their instinctive and moving functions, emotions, and thoughts into a harmonious balance can begin to love objectively. This unconditional love begins with a man number four.
Leaving the Books Behind
At eighteen, I hitchhiked through Scotland and England, with a friend I met while visiting the Scottish Findhorn commune. My interest
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Freedom, Life, and Death
A dear companion died after a long illness, a year ago, in my home. Finally he was free of the pain
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Time, Eternity, and the Sixth Dimension
The fifth dimension is an endless line or loop of time, and the sixth a cube or sphere of all moments. This sixth dimension contains all choices, spreading out and infinitely repeating in eternity. This may be the true meaning of free will. All that we can conceive and do is contained in the sixth dimension. Any choice we make is valid, and any choice we did not make, any line we did not take, exists also. Extending into infinity.
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On the Value of Stillness
As articles in this issue show, students of the Fourth Way rarely find stillness possible among the lower centers, our thoughts, emotions, movements, instincts.
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