Download PDF by G. I. Gurdjieff: In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness

Are we in a position to say that lifestyles is ruled through a gaggle of awake humans? the place are they? who're they? We see precisely the contrary: that lifestyles is ruled via those who find themselves the least unsleeping, via those people who are so much asleep. 

Provocative principles such as those have attracted generations of considerate humans to the tools of self-study and internal paintings devised through Gurdjieff, essentially the most radical non secular academics of recent instances. based on Gurdjieff, the wars raging at this very second are not anything greater than hundreds of thousands of slumbering humans attempting to annihilate thousands of alternative drowsing humans. opposite to renowned trust, there is not any resembling factor as development and evolution so long as humanity is still asleep.  

Two hundred unsleeping humans might switch the complete of lifestyles at the earth, Gurdjieff says. If we wish to develop into these awake humans, we needs to switch ourselves. With assistance from self-knowledge and an figuring out of our relation to the universe, we will wake up to the next point of being—if we want to swap ourselves.  
 

All of Gurdjieff's primary rules and techniques of remodeling the mind, feelings, and physique, within the process referred to as the Fourth method, are awarded during this publication in his personal transparent, special phrases preserved via his closest pupils. 

Arranged in an orderly series of passages drawn from fundamental resource books—P. D. Ouspensky's In seek of the Miraculous, and Views from the genuine World, edited by way of Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann—this fabric is an vital advent for these made up our minds to adopt the efforts and practices invaluable for awakening consciousness. 

All the elemental innovations and strategies are coated, including: 
  
   • man is "asleep"  
   • we don't have any unified "I"  
   • the desire for self-knowledge  
   • functions of the human "machine"  
   • states of consciousness  
   • levels of being  
   • three facilities: relocating, emotional, and thinking  
   • personality and essence  
   • the hazard of self-development  
   • self-observation  
   • remembering oneself  
   • conscious evolution  
   • the legislations of 3 forces  
   • the ray of creation  
   • the legislations of octaves  
   • the Enneagram, a common symbol  
   • the number of religious ways  
   • esoteric Christianity  
   • working in groups  
   • the necessity of schools