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Chapter#11

Different Interpretation of the Gospels. The sleep in which men live is hypnotic sleep, Mirrors, "Chief Fault," "Kundalini," Recharging your Batteries.
Final Version#4.


The main points in this chapter: (1)An Esoteric Reading of the New Testament,(2)Hypnotic sleep & Kundalini, (3)An Eastern Tale, (4)The intuitive center overriding the intellectual one or is it the other way around? (5)Group work,(6)The Accumulators.(7) Recharging one's own batteries, (8) Chief Fault.
Quotes from Richard:"There's a jungle out there", "Plan your work and Work your plan", "I'm in maintenance mode", "Don't bite off more than you can chew." (11-4-2002) Also some stuff from his notebook: 1. Appreceptive mass, 2. Bearbaiting 3.Sheepdogging and 4. Black Holes. He also said "I don't watch TV, I respect the enemy. For us to live something must die. "The Universe will respond!" Finally he also he said something like this: "Focus on the Task at Hand" and "Focusing is easier if you are emotionally involved".
Objectives(Celok): Verify everything, but still have an open mind. Also from David Sinkovits a student of Leibow said "Always question authority!"
Archival Material: Richard took me to the Vadanta Temple on his street and said " Get an overview of Hinduism". I responded "Well I have a little uneasiness when we have to talk about "Monkey Gods, but now I have to accept the fact that hinduism is the first relligion to explain the transendental "non duality". I'm still botheredby the idea of the cast system.
Outline Points
    1. Except a corn of wheat die, it bringeth forth no fruit.
    2. A book of aphorisms.
    3. To awake, to die, to be born.
    4. What prevents a man from being born again?
    5. What prevents a man from dying?
    6. What prevents a man from awakening?
    7. Absence of the realization of one's own nothingness.

    8. What does the realization of oneâs own nothingness mean?
    9. What prevents this realization?
    10. Hypnotic influence of life.
    11. The sleep in which men live is hypnotic sleep.
    12. The magician and the sheep.
    13. "Kundalini". (See the Glossary)
    14. Imagination.

    15. Alarm clocks.
    16. Organized work.
    17. Groups.
    18. Is it possible to work in groups without a teacher?(Maybe it is possible, but if it is,it's very difficilt. Never the less it's good to be with people with similar aims.)
    19. Work of self-study in groups.
    20. Mirrors.
    21. Exchange of observations.

    22. General and individual conditions.
    23. Rules.
    24. "Chief fault".
    25. Realization of oneâs own nothingness.
    26. Danger of imitative work.
    27. "Barriers".
    28. Truth and falsehood.

    29. Sincerety with oneself.
    30. Efforts.
    31. Accumulators.
    32. The big accumulator.
    33. Intellectual and emotional work.
    34. Necessity for feelings.
    35. Possibility of understanding through feeling what can not be understood through the mind.

    36. The emotional center is a more subtle apparatus than the intellectual center.
    37. Explonation of yawning in connection with accumulators.
    38. Role and significance of laughter in life.
    39. Absence of laughter in higher centers.

Notes:
Acharya Shankaracharya(Shankara) Born around 686 A.D.or 788 A.D. we do not know the time of his death He was born in Kerala in South India. He was the saviour of true Hinduism, who reestablished the dharma of Upanishads, the eternal religion. Shankara was personification of Knowledge and Compassion combined together! No adjectives would ever be enough to sing glories about his extraordinary life, supernatural powers, and razor sharp logic, reasoning and rational analysis of epistemology. His philosophy was based on one fundamental truth, truth of personal realization of the Highest Truth. Shankara preached Absolute Monism, also known as Advaita Vedanta. The basic philosophical tenet is based on only One Truth, without second - ek meva advitiya. This Reality is of the nature of Consciousness, and can be described as Sat Chit Ananda at the best! The Reality is also called Brahman, Self, God, and Atman. The world, the nature, the Jivas and whatever we experience through our senses, as multifarious existence is illusory and therefore unreal - Maya. Thus Acharya Shankara is credited to have propounded Mayavada.

Darwin:Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882) was already eminent as an English naturalist[I] when he proposed and provided evidence for the theory that all species have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin's theory remains a cornerstone of biology, as it provides a unifying explanation for the diversity of life. Darwin developed his interest in natural history at Edinburgh University while studying first medicine, then theology. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838. Having seen others attacked as heretics for such ideas, he confided only in his closest friends and continued his extensive research to meet anticipated objections. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay describing a similar theory, causing the two to publish their theories early in a joint publication. His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton. Sir John Frederick William Herschel(1792-1871)was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. He was the son of astronomer Sir William Herschel and the father of 12 children. Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy. He named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus. He made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated colour blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays.

Rudolf Steiner From Wikipedi: Rudolf Steiner(1861 – 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, social thinker and esotericist. He is the founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world accessible to pure thought through a path of self-development, and many of its practical applications, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine, and new artistic impulses, especially eurythmy. Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. In his epistemological works, he advocated the Goethean view that thinking itself is a perceptive instrument for ideas, just as the eye is a perceptive instrument for light.
He characterized anthroposophy as follows: “Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.”
In a cogent presentation, Steiner describes the chakra energy centers as lotus flowers - using the flower metaphor to ease the description of the facets of the chakras by referring to them as the petals of the lotus. Each chakra has its unique number of facets or petals according to Steiner. When the meditative being attains higher knowledge through the exercises described in the book, the petals of the chakra associated with a particular energy center begin to rotate. Thus the origin of the wheel metaphor for these energy centers; in fact, chakra means wheel in the original Sanskrit. The traveler on the path to higher knowledge, whether seed, plant, or flowering tree, will find directions and understandings, rather like a traveler in a strange land coming upon a map would find solace in the confirmation of his current bearings and joy in the delineation of his future path.

Questions: Developed by Richard Liebow.
  1. What does it mean to you that one must die and be reborn--in order to awake?
  2. Do you have a serious desire to escape from the victimization of your own hypnotic sleep?
  3. Do you ever dream that an alarm clock is waking you up--only to wake up to find that you were dreaming that an alarm clock was waking you up?
  4. Are these meetings some sort of alarm clock--or do they just put you into a deeper level of hypnotic sleep?
  5. Do you like rules?
  6. Are there any barriers standing between you and your wish to focus the scattered tendencies of your mind?
  7. Does the concept of accumulators have any practical value for you?
  8. Does the content of Chapter Eleven enhance your understanding of the need to work with others in a group?
  9. Do you sometimes imagine that you are really awake and fully conscious of everything that is happening in your inner and outer worlds?
  10. Are you prepared to confess that your normal waking state of consciousness is really a kind of somnambulistic sleep?
  11. Do you sometimes try talking about these ideas with your friends?
  12. "Realization of one's own nothingness"--does that really mean anything to you?
  13. Is there some part of you that resents having to review these chapters again and again?
  14. Do you really believe that you yourself possess all the faults you find in others?
  15. "The more you give, the more you do, the more is expected of you."---is that fair?
  16. Do you ever feel that you may be just a sheep waiting to be slaughtered and skinned by some sly friendly-faced butcher?
  17. How do you feel about Gurdjieff's explanation of kundalini?
  18. Is your imagination a positive or a negative resource?
  19. Are you ever horrified by your own thoughts and feelings--by your own behavior?
  20. Are you ever stupidly sincere?
  21. Are you beginning to understand that in this work ordinary efforts are absolutely worthless?
  22. What is the difference between normal sleep and hypnotic sleep?
  23. Do you place a great value on your time?
  24. How do you feel about the suggestion that such as you are, your life is an absolute zero?

Glossary:
Kundalini: literally means coiling, like a snake at the base of the spine. The image of coiling, like a spring, conveys the sense of untapped potential energy. It's more useful to think of kundalini energy as the very foundation of our consciousness so that when kundalini moves through our bodies our consciousness necessarily changes with it. In the classical literature of Kashmir Shaivism kundalini is described in three different manifestions. The first of these is as the universal energy or para-kundalini. The second of these is as the energizing function of the body-mind complex or prana-kundalini. The third of these is as consciousness or shakti-kundalini which simultaneously subsumes and intermediates between these two. Ultimately these three forms are the same but understanding these three different forms will help to understand the differerent manifestations of kundalini. This usage is very different from the way Gurdjieff uses this term. But he is right about imagination leading to dreaming, and we're not to be dreaming we're to wake up and wake up others if we can. i.e don't be a dreamer. Be a doer seems to be the Gurdjieffian message. Sometimes, however, healthy illusions are good, like belief in God.
Chief fault(Chief Feature): Is something you work against. The Nine Personality Types and the Nine Capital Tendencies
Type Number Fault The Perfectionist One
anger
The Giver Two pride The Performer Three deceit The Romantic Four envy The Observer Five avarice The Trooper Six
fear
The Epicure Seven gluttony The Boss Eight lust The Mediator Nine sloth

avarice: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) Definition: (1.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. (2.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Additional Notes: Workmeisters harmanies 17th century Germain theorist Andreast Werkmester he belived that hevenly constalations emitted harmonies created by God to influence man. Similarly to Gurdjieff in his statement regarding; "Is it possible to stop war". Note Hungarian filmmmaker he made a film titled Workmister Harmonies.
See the attached document of the 7 principles of Hermetic Law.

Franz Kafka author of two remarkable and brilliant novel The Castle and The Trial.
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