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Author(s): Jeanne De Salzmann
ISBN(s): 9781590308158, 1590308158
Edition: 1
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1590308158 
ISBN 13: 9781590308158
Author: Jeanne De Salzmann

An important book on liberating ourselves from the state of “waking sleep” in which we live our lives, as taught by one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century As the closest pupil of the charismatic spiritual master G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949), Jeanne de Salzmann was charged with carrying on his teachings of spiritual transformation. Known as the Fourth Way or “The Work,” Gurdjieff’s system was based on teachings of the East that he adapted for modern life in the West. Now, some twenty years after de Salzmann’s death, the notebooks that she filled with her insights over a forty-year period (and intended to publish) have been translated and edited by a small group of her family and followers. The result is this long-awaited guide to Gurdjieff’s teaching, describing the routes to be traveled and the landmarks encountered along the way. Organized according to themes, the chapters touch on all the important concepts and practices of the Work, including: • Awakening from the sleep of identification with the ordinary level of being • Self-observation and self-remembering • Conscious effort and voluntary suffering • Understanding symbolic concepts like the Enneagram • The Gurdjieff Movements, bodily exercises that provide training in Presence and the awareness of subtle energies • The necessity of a “school,” meaning the collective practice of the teaching in a group Madame de Salzmann brings to the Work her own strong, direct language and personal journey in learning to live that knowledge of a higher level of being, which, she insists, “you have to see for yourself” on a level beyond theory and concept. De Salzmann consistently refused to discuss the teaching in terms of ideas, for this Fourth Way is to be experienced, not simply thought or believed.

The Reality of Being The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff 1st Table of contents:

I. A Call to Consciousness

  • I Am Asleep

  1. A nostalgia for Being

  2. The life force

  3. I do not know myself

  4. “I” am not here

  • To Remember Oneself

  1. Where our attention is

  2. The first initiation

  3. Can we become conscious?

  4. The watchman

  • The Need to Know

  1. New knowledge is necessary

  2. Self-observation

  3. Conscious effort

  4. The sacred manifests as inner consciousness

II. Opening to Presence

  • In a Passive State

  1. My functions are passive

  2. I need impressions of myself

  3. Hypnotized by my mind

  4. What is up to me

  • An Experience of Presence

  1. The awareness of “being here”

  2. Conscious of inner being

  3. An echo of “I”

  4. Two currents

  • A Movement of Availability

  1. A new way of functioning

  2. Awakening to a new force

  3. The attitude we take

  4. Coming together

III. In a Common Direction

  • A Free Thought

  1. The functioning of the mind

  2. Not knowing

  3. A new thinking

  4. Beyond our usual consciousness

  • An Inner Sensation

  1. An instrument of contact

  2. Obeying the attraction of the earth

  3. A global sensation

  4. To be spiritualized

  • A New Feeling

  1. I blindly trust my feelings

  2. Feeling allows relation

  3. I feel “I am”

  4. Love of being

IV. The Work to be Present

  • In a Quiet State

  1. A way of understanding

  2. Each day

  3. The way up

  4. An exercise is a temporary aid

  • In the Activity of Life

  1. Only in everyday life

  2. The source of manifestation

  3. A measure from above

  4. The way down

  • Staying in Front

  1. To “know myself ”

  2. Only contact, only relation

  3. The struggle for being

  4. Playing a role

V. With Others

  • A Special Current

  1. We say we are “in the Work”

  2. Why together?

  3. To organize

  4. A school of the Fourth Way

  • Exchange in a Group

  1. A special condition for exchange

  2. I need to speak

  3. Real exchange

  4. This form

  • Work in Movements

  1. A double aim

  2. Why Movements?

  3. Part of the teaching

  4. Only with a stable Presence

VI. To be Centered

  • A Sense of the Whole

  1. The aim of my effort

  2. The first feeling of unity

  3. Centered through consciousness

  • An Inner Center of Gravity

  1. Our vital center

  2. Situating the center of gravity

  3. Becoming second nature

  4. My true form

  • Breathing

  1. An imperceptible current

  2. Stages of breathing

  3. I live in my breathing

  4. Without fear of losing myself

VII. Who Am I?

  • Ego and Illusion

  1. The imagination of myself

  2. Ferocious egotism

  3. Free of fear and illusion

  • Toward the Unknown

  1. I do not know

  2. The resonance of “I am”

  3. Silence

  4. Inner solitude

  • My True Nature

  1. A veil over my reality

  2. What I really am

  3. Who am I?

  4. My true nature is consciousness

VIII. Toward a New Being

  • My Being is What I Am

  1. Can being change?

  2. The intensity must increase

  3. Degrees of the octave

  4. First and second conscious shocks

  • A Collected State

  1. Repeat, repeat

  2. My thought does not wander

  3. I feel, I sense, I watch

  4. How do I listen?

  • From Another Level

  1. A more intense energy appears

  2. Exercise of divided attention

  3. My body needs to open

  4. A cosmic scale

IX. In a State of Unity

  • The Act of Seeing

  1. Another vision

  2. Seeing is an act

  3. Beyond my usual perception

  4. The most important thing

  • Conscious Sensation

  1. Life is in me

  2. An inner stillness

  3. A conscious posture

  4. In a quiet body I breathe in

  • Voluntary Attention

  1. The feeling of lack

  2. Obedience and will

  3. Developing conscious force

X. A Presence with its Own Life

  • A Pure Energy

  1. A particle of the highest

  2. Feeling this Presence as alive

  3. From a higher part of the mind

  4. To become a vessel

  • A Body of Energy

  1. This immaterial Presence in me

  2. A mass of energy

  3. An exercise for opening

  4. The substance of “I”

  • Voluntary Suffering

  1. To stay in front

  2. I must live the insufficiency

  3. Conscious struggle

XI. The Essential Being

  • Recognizing a False Attitude

  1. Stages of work

  2. A flagrant contradiction

  3. The affirmation of myself

  4. My attitude expresses what I am

  • A Reality in Me

  1. A wholly different vibration

  2. Sincerity

  3. Faith

  4. Remorse of conscience

  • The Emergence of “I”

  1. The extraordinary impression of existing

  2. The death of my ordinary “I”

  3. I see reality

  4. The radiance of Presence

XII. To Live the Teaching

  • Creative Action

  1. “I am” in movement

  2. The miraculous in action

  3. Effective through being

  4. Something entirely new

  • An Attitude of Vigilance

  1. Meditation is not contemplation

  2. Opening without fear

  3. Watchfulness is our real aim

  4. A look from Above

  • A New Way of Being

  1. I must live the lack of relation

  2. Conscience

  3. Living two lives

  4. To know means to Be

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