Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way

System, theory, and practice

George Gurdjieff

George Gurdjieff

Peter Ouspensky

Rodney Collin

Alexander Horne

Join us for a practical lecture:
«Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way: system, theory, and practice»

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Open to all interested. Free lecture.

What You’ll Learn

  • Basic ideas of the psychology of man’s possible evolution.
  • The modern Fourth Way school today.
  • The beginning of practical work in the Fourth Way.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Sacramento

The lecture will take place in the Lobby Café. 2001 Point West Way Sacramento, CA

Every Monday, 7:00 PM

Duration: 90 minutes.
60 minutes — lecture with simple exercises; 30 minutes — questions.

Organizers and presenters:

Fourth Way Practical School Center (Sacramento). Additional information will be provided at the lecture.

The lecture is free

This lecture is free. No payment is required.

To attend the lecture

please fill out the form below or contact us at +1 (530) 978-8869

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What is this school?

This is an international community of people around the world who have devoted their lives to inner work in the tradition of the Fourth Way, without renouncing ordinary life — family responsibilities, work, hobbies, and so on. The central idea of this work is to bring awareness into every moment of one’s life by freeing oneself from imagination, identification, and negative emotions. The school has existed for more than 50 years, includes approximately 1,500 participants, and has several dozen centers worldwide, including a center in Sacramento. More detailed information about the school can be obtained at the lecture.

What is the Fourth Way?

The «Fourth Way», also known as the «Way of the Sly Man», is a path of human spiritual evolution based on work with attention and the practice of «self-remembering». Unlike the three traditional paths of the fakir, the monk, and the yogi, the Fourth Way does not require withdrawal from life into a solitary cave or a monastery. On the contrary, the circumstances in which a person already lives are considered the most suitable for beginning self-observation and the application of conscious efforts. In Europe, the Fourth Way became known through Georgii Ivanovich Gurdjieff, who «translated» the ideas of the Fourth Way into the language of the European mind, and through his student Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky, who systematized the knowledge received from Gurdjieff in his books In Search of the Miraculous and The Fourth Way.

Additional Topics

You may bring your questions and observations to the lecture related to any of the topics listed below:

  • Divided Attention
  • Self-Observation
  • Four Lower Centers
  • Imagination
  • Identification
  • Negative Emotions
  • Lies and Unnecessary Talks
  • Body Types and Main Feature
  • Essence and Personality
  • Knowledge and Being
  • Steward
  • Work “I”s and sequence
  • Three Types of Influences
  • Three Lines of Work
  • Emotional Center
  • Three Types of Food
  • Alchemy
  • Transformation of Suffering
  • Intellectual Center
  • Working with Intellectual attitudes
  • Moving Center
  • Law of Octaves
  • Law of Three
  • Instinctive Center
  • Law of Payment
  • Good Housholder

«Schools exist only for those who need them and know that they need them.»

— P. D. Ouspensky

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