Am I missing something? Why don’t the practical instructions lead up to the final
stage of “enlightenment” and instead stop at “partial enlightenment”? Is there a
further stage after #4 that might be even more dangerous than #3 and that you
don’t think is safe to describe to anyone who isn’t already at #4?
The practical instructions don’t go further because the issue of going further is complicated, and trying to describe it in a reasonable and useful way would have made this post much too long.
If you can handle stage three, I would have no worries about your ability to handle anything afterwards.
I’ve never read Gurdjieff, so I don’t really know. Terminology is tricky and I wouldn’t venture to guess unless I was more familiar with what “many I’s” means.
I think there’s an even better description of my concept of “many-I’s-consciousness” in the first part of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l0b2-0o than in Gurdjieff’s rather religious writings. I was pleasantly surprised tonight to finally find my suspicions about how consciousness really works confirmed by someone who claims to have done their scientific homework.
The practical instructions don’t go further because the issue of going further is complicated, and trying to describe it in a reasonable and useful way would have made this post much too long.
If you can handle stage three, I would have no worries about your ability to handle anything afterwards.
I’ve never read Gurdjieff, so I don’t really know. Terminology is tricky and I wouldn’t venture to guess unless I was more familiar with what “many I’s” means.
I think there’s an even better description of my concept of “many-I’s-consciousness” in the first part of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l0b2-0o than in Gurdjieff’s rather religious writings. I was pleasantly surprised tonight to finally find my suspicions about how consciousness really works confirmed by someone who claims to have done their scientific homework.