The Fourth Way for the rest of us.
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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 path to the esoteric). What I found was that all the esoteric paths of the various religions were saying the same thing, using different images and symbols. And what they were saying (when I dug down) was what the Work was saying. (The first and most effective was the idea of forming the "witness" and observing myself from the "outside" as it were.)
And it seems that the Work requires less digging through detritus to get to the core of what needs to be done.
More than glad to get advice and commentary from anyone with some experience to share.
I'm starting out with the exercises listed in the exercises forum.
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 path to the esoteric). What I found was that all the esoteric paths of the various religions were saying the same thing, using different images and symbols. And what they were saying (when I dug down) was what the Work was saying. (The first and most effective was the idea of forming the "witness" and observing myself from the "outside" as it were.)
And it seems that the Work requires less digging through detritus to get to the core of what needs to be done.
More than glad to get advice and commentary from anyone with some experience to share.
I'm starting out with the exercises listed in the exercises forum.
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Comment by James Parkinson on December 20, 2008 at 7:51am - Great place to start. I've returned to them many, many times over the years and always find something beneficial. It may take some stirring to get others to participate. It's much easier to sound a Doh than it is to continue an octave.
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