Just listening to Secrets of the Fourth Way for the second time. You two are such menschen!
First time I listened from an off center place, distracted and curious. Shallow enough for my old paradigm judgments to colour things. But also curious, as I have wondered about Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way and more for at least 40 years.
Then a friend twenty years younger sent me the link after I’d watched once, and realized that I would need to watch again and listen, it turns out, with more soul.
As it happens, I am about 55% Jewish, through my father and a great great grandfather on my mother’s side. Let me tell you, it’s a strange thing.
These days I do Zikr with a small online group who are mostly located where I used to live.
I can’t help wondering what you offer that would make your work more accessible to me, possibly once this house building project in the mountains has me living in the house.
I feel a sort of disconnect sometimes between what previous generations, my generation, your generation, and the ones after perceive as spirituality and awakening… and, though I never met the man, I have always loved the writings and teachings of Chogyam Trungpa, who was a scandalous alcoholic and womanizer. It is a curious edge, or wave form between what we point to as spirituality, and to the yearnings of all kinds of obsessions and addictions. And just to be clear, I have been told by several trustworthy friends and counselors, that my addiction appears to be speech.
With respect, Josey