Self-observation

The first regular meeting of the Hampstead Gurdjieff discussion group was held at 9 am on Sunday 9^th. March 2008. There were five people present.

The meeting started with a brief reading of the first part of chapter two of Ouspensky’s “The Fourth Way”, followed by questions and discussion.

The questions discussed were about the lack of unity in our state of being and how with self observation we can observe four different functions of our minds: the intellectual, the emotional, the moving and the instinctive.

There was much discussion about classifying the different kinds of impressions that belonged to different functions and how through self-observation we can observe that in our usual level of consciousness we are most of our time more asleep than awake.

This led to other interesting questions about the different states of consciousness that we experience.