Theme for this weeks topic:

The theme leading up to this week's topic is to notice when we transition from one world to another.

Example 1: We are walking along in a relatively unconscious state and then we suddenly wake up, this is a transition to a different world.

Example 2: We are sorting out some old papers (World 48) and run across something that triggers a wave of anger and blame directed toward someone else (World 96).


Exercise for the week:

The exercise for this week is to put each of your centers into a different world at the same moment.

For example: Intentionally put your emotional center into a World 96 state, your moving center into a World 48 state, and your intellectual center into a World 24 state.

or

Put your emotional center into a World 24 state (perhaps with a short meditation), your intellectual center into a World 48 state (ordinary thinking) and your moving center into a World 96 condition (hint: try looking at a full length mirror for a while and watch what the moving center does.)

 

Session 9: Worlds
March 3

There are a number of ways to look at worlds that give practical insight into transformation. Most traditions have a cosmology that speaks of three worlds or four worlds. In general these can be described as the physical world with which we are familiar, the astral world of being, the causal world of will and the source from which these worlds arise. We have already made some explorations of this territory, but we will look more deeply into the character of each of each of these worlds.

In addition to this approach we will take up Gurdjieff's scheme of seven worlds. J. G. Bennett, in commenting on Gurdjieff's formulation of World 1, World 3, World 6 and so on down to World 96, said that in all of the traditions he has studied, he has never seen a method of talking about the higher worlds that comes close to having the descriptive power of this system.

Reading List:
Deeper Man - Chapter 5, The Seven Worlds (PDF) 19 pages

Deeper Man - Chapter 9, What is this Inner World (PDF) 14 pages

Tables:
Table of Worlds and Bodies
Correspondence Table for Worlds

Recordings:
JGB on Worlds (MP3 - 30 minutes)