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You may be able to relax and better communicate online with Emerald on some issues,,,, Just a thought.

Wow! I just now read this! it is Very synchronous to what I posted a few minutes ago in HC Resources,,,,,,

The Belly Quality of Basic Trust The presence of basic trust indicates that you have the innate sense that life is fundamentally benevolent, and that that benevolence exists independent of you and your actions. You will have this sense to the extent that your grounding in the universe has not been disturbed. The relative presence or absence of basic trust is a belly quality, something one’s whole being is either grounded in or not. The disturbance of basic trust is a significant factor in ego development because the perspective of ego is diametrically opposed to the sense of basic trust. The ego’s perspective arises out of a lack of this trust. It is based on distrust, on paranoia, on fear, on the conviction that you’re not going to be adequately taken care of and that the universe is not there to hold and take care of you in the ways that you need. This conviction causes you to believe that you have to engage in all kinds of manipulations and games to get your needs met and to make things work out. Facets of Unity, pg. 25

Letting go. We can't truly let go if we haven't fully embodied our belly center. In a state of fear we can't fully inhabit the belly center. Almaas studied a variety of Teachings. Most of this is about the Gurdjieff knowledge. Functioning of the Essential Self in the Belly Center Yes, usually the belly center has to do with embodiment, with the capacity to sense oneself. However, the belly center is also the will center. In a sense, the ultimate function of the will is to surrender to what happens, surrender to the now. And surrender to the now means not to hold on to something. The true function of the will is complete surrender to what’s happening without holding on. That is will. The essential self, like all essential aspects, can function in any of the subtle centers. When one is being the essential self its location is usually the heart center. However, when the essential self is functioning in relation to identifying or disidentifying from any content of experience, it becomes associated with the belly center. The essential self is more like a potential for experience, and it also manifests as a capacity for identification. One of the results of that capacity for identification is embodiment. Embodying something means you are identified with what’s happening. An essential state is present. You are embodying it if you are it. The true self has the capacity to identify with something you are experiencing, but it doesn’t have to. It has a choice; it has the freedom. Diamond Heart Book Three, pg. 79

My ship of fools are more manageable out on the high seas than they are when at port. ? ?‍♂️

Two short recent videos ( good samplers ) from Ted which I haven't posted anywhere else. This first one addresses integration in a way,,,, 7:25 9:27 pointing toward the idea of Self Remembering as used in the Fourth Way

I'm glad you found some meaning and benefit from it. Behind the idea of cultivating divided attention on a more regular basis helps to overcome the 'terrible plague' of becoming 'identified, as the term is used in spiritual work. 2 short ones that mesh with the first (#1) - 2 minutes and (#2) - 3 minutes

There's a possibility that I may start getting gas lighted in a big way . In the near future. When controversy erupts and projections get made there is always a lot of confusion. Each of us can and must decide for ourselves. I'm just given a heads up in case. I referred to it as a possibility because from my own experience I've seen where we cast spells on ourselves very often. I don't know what's going to happen 5 minutes from now. But at the moment I feel trust.

@Bill W I should have just put the links. This is the old original book put out by a nonprofit bunch out in California. This is the one I used. https://acim.org/ This is the new annotated version that weighs 4 lbs. However many stones that would be,,,,,? https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/ While we're making distinctions here is what they call the urtext. Its basically their notebooks on the material as they were in the channeling process. http://a.courseinmiracles.com/#gsc.tab=0

@Bill W My messages above were probably confusing. The standard version which is basically 1/2 text and 1/2 lessons is great and they can be picked up cheaply. There is a newer version that has the lessons but is also annotated with footnotes to New Testament. It's good if you're interested in cross referencing the text wth the New Testament and weighs about 4 lbs. It came out a couple of years ago.

@Bill W I did but it took me 2 1/2 years to mope my way through the exercises. On the other had, the text is brilliant and inspiring. I would recommend ignoring the exercises and just reading on the text.

Just now saw this topic. Great stuff! Charlotte posted The Egg and then I added another one with it and added a link to this channel there. ?‍♂️?

Just out today from Ted Nottingham. The link to his channel is in Higher Consciousness Resources under Top Christian Spiritual Resources.

@Bill W

@Alex bAlex ?? Sounds like you got some good and solid Contemplative Psychoanalysis going on.

That cracked me up. ? I see,,,, Thank you for making those connections! I look forward to your new channel.

Seems like you may be pointing towards a possible hierarchy of duct tape wizards,,,,

@Emerald I just started a topic on the meaning behind regular playing cards under Free Wisdom books in High Consciousness Resources. It's from chapter 9 of Chance and Choice. I would be welcome to a synthcizing with the Tarot if you're interested. It may have to be moved to somewhere else. I just now posted it,,, Do you think that would work at all?

This is a study of the From Chapter nine of Chance and choice - interpretations given about the meaning of the regular playing cards which hold a correlation to thr Tarot. But for those on a spiritual path, who choose to follow their own dream, not the dream of others, the cards are a powerful tool. They show 13 steps of wisdom applied with 52 basic components. Each of the thirteen steps is fourfold, starting in the sequence, diamonds-matter, clubs-consciousness, heart-energy, spades-self organizations. The everyday cards thus provide an archetypal guide for all those on a spiritual path, as soon as you know how to use them. The first step in this knowledge is to comprehend the sequence of the cards. The cards in the order which follows mirrors the path. They show the natural progression of the way of wisdom. Remember, this is not a path for beginners, but for the mature, the Masters. It is a path where the mastery of the King is the beginning point. Its goal is the Ace, the holistic unity where Being connects Self with God. FACE CARDS KING: The start is to have the right livelihood , to have friends of other walks of life, to accept your instincts and needs , and to know in which field you have real mastery. Thus the path to Wisdom starts from mastery, from a position of health and attainment, and goes to the Ace, the unified field of awareness. QUEEN: The mastery and competence should become the status, a profession respected by others. You have to accept your place in society and family and become a personality , visible and desirable to others, being honest, sincere and trustworthy, not hiding any weakness. JACK: Due to our brain structure we learn our whole life. The starting point is work. By working to make things better, you evolve, make progress and join a team working to the same end. Out of this group effort your belief system improves and your faith is born. This will lead to fulfillment in your Spiritual Path . NUMBER CARDS (10) - In the depth of your Self, the core of your Being, you have the vision of ideals to attain. This vision gives you hope and the courage to strive: Beauty for sensing, Truth for thinking, Goodness for feeling, and impartial Justice for willing. Justice, not in the Roman, but in the Chinese interpretation: finding your right place in the cosmic order and in the golden chain of being. (9) - The striving for these infinite ideals enables you to plan and invent your own future projects. You program your own human computer, and carrying out your inventions as scriptwriter, producer and actor. You plan your life software, putting in additional time, linking it up with your dream , and thereby find the link to the muses , the inspiration. (8) - You then accept full responsibility for your dream and position. To do this, and act consciously as a leader, you must be able to explain , and to create appropriate methods or rituals for common action. You learn to trust the beyond, your angel , and your inner voice. (7) - Knowing your stand you have to fight for your values, even to death. You have to take the initiative. Remain open to questioning and assertions , nobody is ever totally in the right, the devil and evil are an invention of power people. You have to realize that forces of nature help you to find your individuation by way of omens and agreements, getting help from the nature spirits , the elementals. (6) - Whoever has real power can communicate , discuss and make statements in dialogue, instead of argument. You thereby establish the right priorities and link your own work with history and the ancestors . (5) - Having thus fulfilled your public and social duties, you turn to your own life. You start to have deeper insights into your self and your way, to discern more and more clearly and distinctly. You qualify and fine tune and analyze your statements about reality. Knowing your norm , your competence never transgresses it. In this way you find your true human identity . (4) - The real human will be able to take their wishes, their true desires as positive motivations. They will see them in their totality, in mental representations, and balance them in the center. Then you will develop the right strategies to attain them, just like any animal, trusting your communion with their world and attain wisdom in acting. (3) - The wishes will lead you again unto the way of knowledge, to study, the pursuit of knowledge of what really interests you. You will then gain a better understanding of others and yourself. As you do you will strive to discover your highest potentiality, your archetype , to evolve, trusting in natural growth like a tree. (2) - The tree has flowers, your capacity to create will grow and flower like the mature tree. If your conception is large enough, if you adapt to the prevailing conditions and take the technological world as your field of actualization, then you and others will be able to relate to your creations. (1) - Finally, knowing that you are not the creator, but only His tool or transmitter, you will let the force of healing flow to you. You will trust in your overall grasp of the whole in absolute confidence that it will never lead you astray. This will lead to a complete opening to the east, the voice of continuous revelation , the spirit of the times. You will attain the Ace of Spades - the symbol of true wisdom. Your journey to full wisdom will be complete.

If this thread went ahead to include everything that has to do with Self Inquiry as it falls under the Gurdjieff umbrella, I think that would be great. @LeoGura and Moderators I welcome guidance,,,,, This is one of my favorites that I've posted before. I'm not in 100 % in agreement with Martin about everything but he has helped me a lot.

@Petals it's seems arcane maybe because it's overall vast in scope and generally things highly driven people don't want to take a look at. Nothing is really hidden anymore about the Work but due to our childhood conditioning, even adulthood conditioning nowadays helped by multinational corporate advertising propagagandas, its more difficult to be pulled out of the cultural conditioned trance.There are several areas in my life has which been helped in seeing my self as a 3 brained being (3 centered human) basically. And then work towards balancing. A person has to be completely sincere in willing to see ones own lies and self deception and to just stand the middle of it and let it burn. Feel it fully let it burn, let it transform. It has made me a more forgiving person. I'm not as reactive as I was once and im more indifferent or less reactive to rather intence feelings. I don't react impulsively as I used to. I still do. It's an ongoing battle and it does become easier with practice. Mainly having understandings through the uselessness of complaining. But also in seeing the things that are in other people that piss me off and being willing and able to admit that aspect about myself, a peace arrises in me when this happens because I no longer hate. In one feel swoop through - UNDERSTANDING -sometime I'm able to completely forgive others as well as myself. This seems to free up the heart, and some awareness. In many instances, these times of forgiveness cycle around. It has taken me years and years to finally let go of some of my really ingrained greivences. In the past I would occasionally wordvomit hatred towards others who let me down in someway. It always resulted in a loss of life force and a loss of inner quiet. The troubling part is how many times I had to go through this hellish routine before the lights really came. Some more than others. Purifying the emotional center is not a quick undertaking for the majority. Theres A multitude of different kinds of Inquiry based groups. I've dipped into and out of a few of them. A long time student of the work, Martin Butler, said something that I really appreciated - "we have to find our own way in a sense". One has to learn enough about the Work and then make it your own as it applies to ones own life. At the base of it all is actually be able to contact our Conscience while listening past the noisy screaming and manipulations of the ego and superego who has allies in our mind - heart - and instinctive center. Until we can ground through sensation and develop presence in the body then it will be the intellectual/emotional complex pulling our puppet strings. The Fourth Way teaches that we're a multiplicity. Some more than others but along side this is the phenomena of having psychological blind spots . That means we see it in others and not ourselves and within this lies layers of self deception hurt and confusion. This is not a very cheery summary but there are definitely good things to be had by doing the work. Having or developing a love for truth in itself is so vital.. Hope my blunt words were helpful. Im glad you asked!

I see travel in my future.

I posted a critique by Cynthia Bourgeault on Ken Wilber's interpretation of the Trump phenomenon in High Consciousness Resources. This is around the time right after Trump was elected. A rich snippet. Orange may be individualistic while green is pluralistic, but both are relying on the mental egoic operating system (“perception through differentiation”) to run their program; green’s “groups”, therefore, are merely “individuals writ large,” (which “co-exist,” not a new holonic unity [which “coalesces”]). Or another way of saying it: green is simply orange looking through a post-modern filter.