By coming to this website you have most likely heard or read about the Fourth Way, or about exponents of the Fourth Way such as Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.

Or you may be a current or past student of the Fourth Way looking for the means to make more progress.

There are many things that you should know about the Fourth Way, its source, its meaning and its real value.

For the Fourth Way is actually much more than esoteric psychology. It is the key component in a complete spiritual path leading to consciousness and superconsciousness.

It is true that personality has been deeply fragmented starting in early life, resulting in the formation of many different "I’s." Each of these "I’s" takes over the personality at various times, and each of these "I’s" has its own agenda.

Therefore one is continually in a state of inner confusion and conflict, and as long as the personality is fragmented there can be no peace. In a sense the personality is in a state of civil war. If one is in pieces, one cannot be at peace.

However, it is vitally important to know why and how this fragmentation takes place and why, without special spiritual tools that have been lost to the Fourth Way, unification of the personality cannot occur.

The phenomenon of identification can only be understood by considering its source and purpose.

Identification is a process that operates under the Law of Maya, also known as the law of illusion, by which humans are kept under the illusion that they are already conscious and able to decide what to do.

One begins to identify with the human body and its environment as soon as one leaves the birth canal.

It is through identification with emotional pain that the personality fragments and becomes many "I’s."

A misunderstanding about the existence of the astral body developed long ago as the Fourth Way principles were being handed down from age to age.

The astral body does exist and we are directly connected to it through the emotional center. The astral body is the emotional body, a major component of the personality.

It is the fragmentation of the astral body that produces "I’s" and it is essential to work on the astral body in order to reverse this fragmentation, to reunify the personality, to become conscious.

Each emotional trauma we identify with as infants, children and adults creates in the astral body a samskara, an astral "scar." As these astral "scars" expand they lead directly to fragmentation of the astral body, thereby forming "I’s" in the personality.

Until and unless these emotional or astral "scars" are healed, the personality remains fragmented.

Healing of samskaras takes place by evoking in oneself a transcendental state from which the third force, or neutralizing force, can be focused on them. This transcendental state is known as Self-Observation, and it can be evoked in oneself only by special spiritual methods.

In the ancient eastern scriptures it was strongly advised to learn how to divide oneself into the "observer" and the "observed."

Unfortunately many current Fourth Way schools teach methods that perpetuate the illusion of Self-Observation and Self-Remembering by evoking an artificial state of "inner separation" in the personality.

One simply imagines that one is self-observing or self-remembering, but actual reunification of the personality is not occurring. One is actually not becoming conscious.

Self-Observation is produced by evoking in oneself a transcendental state, an out-of-the-body state, from which one is able to clearly view the personality fragments.

In the state of Self-Observation higher laws can be effectively utilized to neutralize the underlying samskaras and reunite the disparate personality fragments or "I’s."

Self-Remembering is a transcendental state higher than Self-Observation, in which one is aware of oneself as something completely separate from the machine and its personality. In this state there is no thought – only transcendental intuition.

When the personality is unified the state of Self-Remembering is constant and one is therefore conscious. In effect one has crystallized as Man or Woman #4.

The process of disidentifying from the machine and its personality is a spiritual transcendental process. It can only be accomplished through the gradual physical withdrawal of consciousness from the machine, and the extent to which physical withdrawal has taken place is the extent to which we have reversed identification.

The less we are identified with the machine the fewer samskaras are created, in effect ending the process of personality fragmentation.

"To be or not to be is the question." From the standpoint of the Fourth Way, due to the fragmentation and mechanicality of the personality, one has no real being. Being can only exist when there is unity in the personality.

There are seven levels of being. The level of being of Man or Woman #4 is to be unified at the level of personality, that is to be conscious. The level of being of Man or Woman #7 is to be unified with the infinite or absolute, experiencing eternal awareness, joy, peace and love, that is to be superconscious.

To become superconscious one must first become conscious. Without inner unity it is impossible to develop higher levels of being in oneself.

There are some who may believe they have reached the level of being of Man or Woman #4 or higher, but it is not possible to reach this state until the personality is fully unified.

To unify the personality requires transcendental tools, spiritual tools, that are empowered to neutralize the underlying samskaras that created the "I’s" in the first place. These tools were available in the original spiritual system of which the Fourth Way was the key component.

THE FOURTH WAY WAS ORIGINALLY PART OF A SPIRITUAL PATH LEADING TO CONSCIOUSNESS AND SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS

The Work consists of correct and consistent application of spiritual or transcendental tools to become conscious and then superconscious. For the Work to be successful one must find a superconscious School, or School #7, and a superconscious Teacher, a Man or Woman #7, from whom the necessary spiritual tools can be obtained.

Such a Teacher has written a book entitled simply "TRUTH" that explains all of the above in much greater detail, as well as many other very important things that must be included as part of the Work.

When you read this book you will come to know how and where the Fourth Way fits into the process of becoming truly conscious and superconscious, and what will be necessary for you to engage in this process for yourself. This book serves as the primary textbook for the School.

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