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Matching Fourth Way.
In 1908 a small book appeared in Chicago under the byline "Three Initiates." In 1912 a Russian journalist finished a treatise on the fourth dimension, a…
Pick a shelf of spiritual books at random and you will find, somewhere in the first twenty pages, the same accusation: you are not actually awake.
From The Dhammapada
A man walks down a street in St Petersburg, around 1916, trying to hold one unusual question in his mind: am I here?
Ask a room full of people what an enneagram is and most will describe nine personality types, a quiz, maybe a number they identify with.
Every origin story attached to Gurdjieff's teaching comes in two layers. One layer can be documented: a man of uncertain age arrives in Moscow, gathers…