Center of Gravity of Ideas

The meeting started with reading from Ouspensky’s ‘The Fourth Way’, Chapter XII on the need to look for the centre of gravity of some of the ideas we have been studying.

Some ideas can be more or less important than others. As Ouspensky explains, "We must understand that, before acquiring new knowledge, we must realize our limitations and the fact that our limitations are really limitations of our being."

This lead to the question being discussed, of what types of men there are from the point of view of having the possibility of changing their beingness.

Gurdjieff considers four divisions of man from the point of view of the possibility of changing being. He called them snataka or householder, tramp, lunatic and hasnamuss.

(Read more on this from the book itself. An electronic version of this book is available from the link on the right.)

This reading lead to a most interesting discussion.