LIFE IS NOT A MOVIE

I've begun to focus more on the Sufi tradition to make up the spiritual side of my work. It obviously ties into the Fourth Way well. Sufism gives me a way to seeing the world and my life including it's spiritual elements, while the Fourth Way gives me clear, simple and practical exercises.

The Sufis focus on love and one's relationship to the Beloved/God/Reality. It also ties into my personal life as my relationship to my wife has been the most powerful and direct spiritual experience of my lif… Continue

I'm discovering that my most powerful "I" may be my "all is okay" I. It pops up and I feel fine, don't need to do anything, don't need to fix anything, all is well. When this one is in charge, it becomes difficult to maintain the witness, to "step back" and observe. It may thus be my most buffered I, the one most heavily separated from the others.

Greetings to the other members of this site. My wife and I have been working through the phat podcasts and I'm very happy to find resources that are making the Fourth Way so practical and clear. I've found plenty of sources that can get so deeply into the theory i wind up beating my head against a wall crying, "Yeah, but what do I DO?"

I've come to the Fourth Way from a long interest in mysticism and the esoteric (and a lot of dead ends where I mistook an exoteric church or group as a reliable… Continue