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WHAT IS A HIGHER STATE OF BEING?

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In delineating the states of consciousness possible for men and women, Gurdjieff indicates that in our waking hours we live and function in a state of hypnotic sleep.
Through intentional efforts to experience the truth of this statement
​we may begin to discover what it is to truly awaken.

 
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"We believe that to awake is to enter into an entirely
 different life, which will have nothing in common with
 the one we lead. But, in fact, awaking means, above
 all, to awake to ourselves as we are, to see and feel
   the sleep, the identification."
 

(Jeanne de Salzmann; The Reality of Being)













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  • Events
  • Home
  • Awakening
  • Gurdjieff
    • Gurdjieff Biography
    • Quotes & Anecdotes
  • Resources
    • Links
    • Books
  • Contact Us
  • Members
    • Upcoming Events
    • Current Readings & Tasks 2021
    • Readings & Tasks Archives 2018 - 2020
    • Long Readings >
      • Many I's
      • Internal & External Considering
      • I asked G... ('Man cannot do' reading)
      • On one occasion when speaking of the orderly connectedness of everything in the universe
      • The chain of worlds
      • 'THE ACT OF QUESTIONING'
      • 'To awake,' 'to die,' 'to be born'
      • First Initiation
      • Exchange in a Group
      • A Conscious Effort
      • A Conscious Posture
      • The Process of Struggle
      • Desires and Nondesires
      • Essence and Personality
      • Practicing Buddhism in Daily Life
      • Internal & External Considering
      • Economy of Energy Expenditure
      • You Must Have an Aim
      • Know Thyself - Aim
    • 2021 Member Contact Info