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Every moment of experience serves as an intake of impressions (H48). Mechanical, routine situations produce low-intensity impressions that easily slide into default identification or mind-wandering.
Uncomfortable or chaotic events—sudden pain, social tension, physical confrontation, intense friction—burst with massive amounts of vivid psychological energy. If you react mechanically, that raw force converts directly into negative emotions, fear, or involuntary tension (degrading down to lower hydrogens like H96 or H192). However, if you step back inside yourself and maintain the dual awareness of I am here, experiencing this, that intense input acts as high-grade fuel, immediately transforming into H12.
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George Gurdjieff’s Self Remembering: An Ultimate Guide — Richard Ruach
SELF OBSERVATION: THE FOUNDATION
Self Observation is the prerequisite to Self Remembering. It is the study of the human machine and its three cylinders: intellectual, emotional, and moving.
This is Personality: the human mask shaped by heredity and the outside world. (More detail in the comments.)
Self Remembering is NOT Self Observation. It rests on a different teaching: the distinction between Personality and Essence.
ESSENCE is the “Divine spark,” the eternal element that passes from life to life. Personality is formed in this lifetime; Essence is perennial.
Self Observation is a technique. Self Remembering is a state of consciousness and being.
THE FOUR LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Gurdjieff describes four levels:
1. Sleep.
2. Ordinary, everyday consciousness.
3. The awakened state (sometimes called Self Remembering).
4. Objective consciousness.
The technique for entering Self Remembering is DIVIDED ATTENTION (see diagram in comments).
DIVIDED ATTENTION: THE KEY
Imagine someone looking at a tree. An ordinary person sees the tree, but may not notice the representations and associations arising within them.
Divided attention means remaining aware of your inner world while also attending to your surroundings. Consciousness becomes BIDIRECTIONAL rather than moving in one direction; eventually, it can become MULTIDIRECTIONAL.
For example, imagine suddenly becoming sad while walking down the street, without knowing why. Through Self Observation, you would recognize why the sadness arose.
THE SECRET THIRD THING
With sustained practice, you may sense a “secret third thing” (Essence) observing the process: the arising and entering of an impression.
This is neither thought nor emotion. You are turning away from the human machine (Persona).
RECOGNIZING SELF REMEMBERING
P.D. Ouspensky describes its “flavor” as similar to being a child visiting a place you have never been before—not nostalgia or the “inner child.”
The state is slippery: you can enter it and lose it without noticing. Someone speaks to you, and suddenly it is gone.
Do not force or manipulate it. Remain as natural as possible.
Richard Ruach offers another technique, ROLLING ATTENTION, to maintain the state. See the comments for my notes and his fuller explanation.
THE GENIUS MIND AND THE FILTER
A genius can filter out distractions and concentrate on one thought. A chess master, for example, filters out bad moves rather than calculating every possibility.
But an extremely strong filter can disconnect you from reality. Intellectual people therefore struggle with Self Remembering.
The aim is not to strengthen the filter, but to LOOSEN it, allowing consciousness to expand and experience the world. This may help explain why geniuses sometimes have breakthroughs while dreaming.
THE EFFECTS OF SELF REMEMBERING
The area of consciousness expands and more impressions enter. You notice things previously overlooked; perhaps you hear something new or the world seems more vivid.
When looking at another person, an image or reaction may arise within you. Ruach describes this as not coming from you, but as that person’s internal world. He calls it “Extra-Normal Phenomenological Perception” (like telepathy, but not exactly).
Do NOT get caught up in this. Thinking about “having telepathy” can pull you out of Self Remembering.
BEING-PARTKDOLG-DUTY: THE DEATH OF THE OLD SELF
Everything in the human machine has arrived from an external place. Through Self Remembering, you attempt to draw solar force into the machine and reorganize it into something else.
Gurdjieff calls this “Being-Partkdolg-Duty” in Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson.
This is death: the old self is replaced by Essence.
It brings to mind Christ’s words:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
— John 3:3
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Monument Valley buttes are sedimentary sandstone/shale formed by uplift and differential erosion, not giant tree stumps. Studies find no wood anatomy; composition is rock. Trees max ~130m tall.
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A Deep Dive Into the Underworld and Machines!
According to Gurdjieff, man is a machine until he fully awakens. He operates automatically, following spiritually dead and meaningless societal impulses rather than listening to his own conscience.
This robotic, unrealized condition is also a defining quality of the underworld, or the subnatural world. The beings there operate like automatons: soulless shells separated from their higher selves, wandering the abyss and mindlessly repeating the unconscious patterns that dominated their earthly lives.
Today, we are building machines that embody this same quality. They, too, are soulless things, animated by a collective mind. Their creation becomes a kind of sympathetic magic, their deathly nature drawing forth the corresponding forces of the subnatural world!
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G.I. Gurdjieff on Magnetism, Healing, and the Astral
According to Gurdjieff, man carries two substances: 1. the active elements of the physical body and 2. the active elements of astral matter. When the two blend, they create a third, mixed substance. This is 3. magnetism.
It forms in certain parts of the body and creates an atmosphere around you (the way a planet is wrapped in its own atmosphere). Planets constantly gain and lose substance because of the planets around them, and as above, so below: the same is true of PEOPLE. Man is surrounded by other men, and through them he can either gain or lose this substance. When two sympathetic atmospheres meet, a connection forms and something flows between them. The total amount stays the same, but the quality changes, so what you walk away with depends on who you’ve been around.
Like electricity, magnetism has positive and negative poles. In man these may be his wishes and non-wishes. Astral matter always opposes physical matter. With control, one side can be strengthened and directed like a current.
That’s how ancient priests healed. They had a lot of this substance and could pass it on. The sick and weak simply had too little. Halos and auras were real. According to Gurdjieff, Franz Anton Mesmer only rediscovered what the ancients already knew.
But you can’t give what you don’t have. Like attention, magnetism is acquired only through conscious labor and intentional suffering, by doing small things voluntarily, against habit. Gurdjieff called this struggle with oneself. A key part of his Work is fighting your likes and dislikes, which strengthens the will.
His instruction was simple: “Make some small aim your God.”
What does this mean? It sounds controversial, but the point is that whatever you focus on throughout your day is YOUR RELIGION. If you aren’t focused toward spirit during a big % of your day, then your bills, your job and your worst habits are what you worship... that is your god.
Pick one small thing you’ll do on purpose every day, like waking at a set time or sitting still for five minutes. Treat it as sacred and never skip it. Each time you choose effort over comfort, you build will and attention. That effort is what creates what we call “magnetism.”
Gurdjieff himself was highly magnetic, highly concentrated, charismatic and full of power. That strength comes from effort. In most people the will is asleep, and only through conscious effort does it awaken. In this way, man becomes master not only of himself, but of everything else. Beyond ordinary effort, Gurdjieff taught super-efforts: pushing past the point where you feel you have nothing left.
That’s where most people go wrong. They truly believe they’ve hit their breaking point, but they haven’t. The real limit is wayyyy further than they think, but they are afraid to keep going.
That is where real transformation begins. Real magnetism.
What is the will to power without first a will to will?
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The difference between a target worker and a millionaire is their attention.
The target worker never channels all of their intensity on one object.(Scattered)
The millionaire directs his thinking, feeling, and willing at his business.(Pointed)
Obeying every impulse = Broke
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I hate when a girl flexes me dming her on instagram, like bitch you're talking to claude code.
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How to Morally Develop Through Social Situations
from on the Wings of Words by Rudolf Steiner
-have the utmost tolerance for the seeming faults of others
-take an even greater interest in other people's thoughts and perspectives
-transcending our sympathies and antipathies regarding people we meet
-develop an imaginary picture of the Christ holding a balance between Lucifer and Ahriman when we encounter others
-speak truthfully, based on facts, rather than prejudices and biases
-be conscious of how you attract undesirable elemental beings through lies and poorly designed laws