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aphorist · 03-05-2009, 09:23 AM

Here we go, I don't know how many people are familiar with the fourth way, but I'd like to see what people think.

Fourth Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Fourth Way is basically a belief system that came about in the early 20th century which starts with the statement, all men are machines. Basically, nobody controls themselves and therefore they don't control what they do. Outside influences create our mindset, and so our mind isn't our own. Furthermore, we all have a multitude of "I"s in our heads which contradict each other, so, for example, one night we set an alarm thinking I want to get up early and the next morning we hit the snooze button saying I don't want to get up early this morning. It states that a unified "I" only comes through control of the physical, emotional, and thinking areas of the body, which are totally separate and sometimes try to wrongly do the job of the others.

This is set up on the statement that people are all asleep. Nobody knows themselves and nobody controls their actions. We are all asleep, being controlled by other forces unless we "self-remember" and realize what we are doing. Only through intense trials of realizing who we are can we stop lying and start seeing objective knowledge. Until we are able to control ourselves through waking up, we are unable to do anything because everything we try isn't controlled by a singular "I".

Then it gets a little out there for me. It talks about universal energy stages and their knowledge based on an octave scale. But this part is more on the "objective knowledge" than on the system for reaching higher consciousness.

In any case, the books on it are very interesting and make you think. Do I control myself or are there multiple "I"s which take over at accidental intervals? Can I actually do what I want without negative effects, and will absolution of my "I" allow me to more effectively do what I want to do? Can I control what I think, feel emotionally, and sensually?

Of course it's hard to explain in a short post without butchering the logic behind it, but does anyone know anything about the fourth way, or have any thoughts on it?

03-05-2009, 09:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
aphorist Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 228	The Fourth Way Here we go, I don't know how many people are familiar with the fourth way, but I'd like to see what people think. Fourth Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Fourth Way is basically a belief system that came about in the early 20th century which starts with the statement, all men are machines. Basically, nobody controls themselves and therefore they don't control what they do. Outside influences create our mindset, and so our mind isn't our own. Furthermore, we all have a multitude of "I"s in our heads which contradict each other, so, for example, one night we set an alarm thinking I want to get up early and the next morning we hit the snooze button saying I don't want to get up early this morning. It states that a unified "I" only comes through control of the physical, emotional, and thinking areas of the body, which are totally separate and sometimes try to wrongly do the job of the others. This is set up on the statement that people are all asleep. Nobody knows themselves and nobody controls their actions. We are all asleep, being controlled by other forces unless we "self-remember" and realize what we are doing. Only through intense trials of realizing who we are can we stop lying and start seeing objective knowledge. Until we are able to control ourselves through waking up, we are unable to do anything because everything we try isn't controlled by a singular "I". Then it gets a little out there for me. It talks about universal energy stages and their knowledge based on an octave scale. But this part is more on the "objective knowledge" than on the system for reaching higher consciousness. In any case, the books on it are very interesting and make you think. Do I control myself or are there multiple "I"s which take over at accidental intervals? Can I actually do what I want without negative effects, and will absolution of my "I" allow me to more effectively do what I want to do? Can I control what I think, feel emotionally, and sensually? Of course it's hard to explain in a short post without butchering the logic behind it, but does anyone know anything about the fourth way, or have any thoughts on it?