Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within

Sit in a comfortable upright chair with your feet firmly on the floor. Place your hands palm down on your thighs. Keep your eyes open. Focus your attention first on the sensation of your feet on the ground. If you are wearing socks or shoes, feel them. Feel your feet and their connection to the ground or floor. Next focus your attention on your sea

“Tucson II—Toward a Science of Consciousness.”

Gurdjieff taught that there is yet another way—what he called the “Fourth Way.” This involves developing a deep awareness of all three elements of the outer self—the body, the emotions, and the mind. By distinguishing, clarifying, and intensifying each of these distinct aspects of our being, and then by finally integrating them together in a consci

The Hopi Indians, for example, believe that we are now leaving the Fourth World of Destruction and entering the Fifth World of Peace.

Here are some other ideas to play with while relaxing in outer sensation: Can you become “one” with an object? Can you sense the feeling of “being” a lamp or a tree? As you see and hear, do you feel any inner sensations in your body? Do this exercise (and all exercises in this book) in a spirit of playfulness.

You will know you are getting somewhere if you start noticing any of these things: A sensation of stillness or space. A feeling as if you are moving toward objects or as if they are moving toward you. A heightened visual sense.

about a new form of healing called EFT—Emotional Freedom Technique.2 Developed by engineer and self-help author Gary Craig,

I believe that the Now is also the gateway to active consciousness. It is from this vantage point that we can develop our ability to bring the non-physical into the physical world, to coax Bohm’s “implicate order” into the realm of our three-dimensional lives.

STEP 1. Settle into the Now: “Feet. Seat. Back.”