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It was after several
years of investigation into sources on Mount Athos that I finally discovered,
much closer to home, that only a short time before his death Gurdjieff
had arranged for a party to go to Athos in hopes of ‘reestablishing contact
with the tradition’ whose doctrines he had taught in such a novel manner.
(The search was unsuccessful at that time.) This finally convinced me
that this statement that his teachings were esoteric Christianity was
correct not just loosely, but in many important details, previously unproved
because of the difficulties in carrying out an adequate study. The simplest
confirmation of this, indeed, has been the gradually growing awareness
that to make this connection has taken us a long way toward the completion
of those then still incomplete teachings, so that they lead to results
of a new kind.
The new results
come from a new under-standing of the psychological method, and from five
conclusions in particular.
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That the spiritual transformation of man requires as a preliminary condition the temporary and eventually the permanent liberation of the individual nous from the activities that normally obscure it.
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That certain
psychological methods described by the early fathers have the
capacity
to liberate the nous without requiring massive initial changes
in our way of life. These changes then follow instead of preceding
the change in the nous.
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That effective
use of the psychological method involves the therapeutic use of the
specialist knowledge on which the method is based, enabling us to
face reality and so overcome emotional delusions and the disturbances
of the nous which they cause.
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That the
missing noetic method referred to by Ouspensky actually exists in
the form of the noetic prayer used in the inner tradition of the Eastern
Church.
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That noetic prayer and the form of psychological method referred to combine and augment one another to form an effective discipline of inner growth.
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The Ark
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A Different
Christianity
Philosophers of
God
St. Gregory
Palamas
Cross-fertilisation
Abstraction &
attention
Lost Doctrines
Lost Christian
truths
The Royal Road
Inner language
History of
Christianity
Christian Therapy
The First
Millennium
Christian
Psychology
Different kind of
mind
One thing needful
Emotional
Education
Magnetisation to
God
Eastern Church
spirituality
God's drill
Threshold of
prayer
Ora et Labora
Research Report
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