Becoming aware of something from nature outside, had seemed very important to L. The artefacts we made were more recent additions to the world, but the fundamental, essential reality was that of nature. He had done this CHALLENGE when his mind was drifting, or if something was upsetting him. Sometimes he would do it at an arbitrary time, as a meditation to get back to base.
N worked in an environment very removed from nature, a basement with artificial lighting. He did not know what the weather was like outside, and there were some days when he was working so hard, he did not even think about that. He was thinking of bringing a plant into the office, or something which reflected nature to him. If he was feeling continuous thoughts about something, to do this process before the emotional centre clocked in and made him go wild with those thoughts (or put him into a different state of mind), he could self-remember enough to be able to see those thoughts which led to a different emotion. By doing this, he found he connected much more with a deeper self which was able to stop the runaway horses of emotion taking root.
In the first part of the month, T had remembered the challenge when she was late, or at work, or rushing to something. She had remembered to do the deep breath and the humming, but it was just on a few occasions when she remembered about connecting with nature, and it had tended not to be the natural world, but seeing her hand, or feeling her face. So it had come at points of stress. In the second part of the month, there had been some intense life events.- two funerals in a week, and it was more connected with intense emotion, and thoughts racing. So it was a relief when she was doing the humming. For her the vibration in the head was difficult to sense.
During the time allocated for responses, there was much discussion on the benefits of nature, but none on instances of doing the challenge.
The reading continued from Chapter 27 of Beelzebub's Tales.
Of course, these objective attainments then, as it is said, ‘attracted-the-attention’ of all around them, who thereupon made those who had attained stand out from their midst and paid them every kind of respect; they also strove with joy to merit the attention of these outstanding beings and to have for themselves their counsel and advice how they themselves could attain the same perfecting.
And these outstanding beings of that period began in their turn to make the most attained among themselves stand out and this outstanding being thereby automatically became, without either hereditary or other right, the chief of them all, and recognising him as chief, his directings were spread correspondingly, and this recognition included not only the separate neighbouring parts of the surface of your planet, but also even the neighbouring continents and islands.
J said this described how people take authority by degrees, and what starts off as an impetus for freedom, becomes stuck in glue. RM said that we liked the glue. I want my glue instead of yours. O said the teachings were incompletely transferred because they were only listened to with one of the three centres. L said that from the moment Ashiata Shiemash appointed deputies to spread his philosophy, he had already divided society between those whom he favoured and those he did not. Once the latter wanted to join the select group, there would be the seeds for conflict..
The results of the Very Saintly Labours of Ashiata Shiemash were then also very definitely reflected in respect of that terrible peculiarity of the manifestation of the psyche of your favourites, namely, in their ‘irresistible-urge-for-the-periodic-destruction-of-each-other’s-existence.’
The process of reciprocal destruction established there and ensuing from that terrible particularity of their psyche entirely ceased on the continent Asia, and only proceeded occasionally on those large and small parts of the surface of that planet of yours, which were far from the continent Asia. And this continued there only because owing to their distance the influence of the initiates and priests could not reach and be transubstantiated in the presence of the beings breeding on these parts of the surface of your planet.
...The said decline in both their death rate and their birth rate proceeded because, as they approximated to an existence normal for the three-centred beings, they also began to radiate from themselves vibrations responding more closely to the requirements of Great Nature, thanks to which Nature needed less of those vibrations which are in general obtained from the destruction of the existence of beings.
N said there was a cosmic reflection in Gurdjieff's philosophy between organic life on Earth and the whole planetary system - reciprocal maintenance - and if things got out of balance there were wars, destruction and famine.
| When you realise that you are going down an avenue where the mind is taking over, breath in deeply, become aware of nature with your senses, and take a slow outbreath whilst humming, so as to cause a vibration in your head. |
N worked in an environment very removed from nature, a basement with artificial lighting. He did not know what the weather was like outside, and there were some days when he was working so hard, he did not even think about that. He was thinking of bringing a plant into the office, or something which reflected nature to him. If he was feeling continuous thoughts about something, to do this process before the emotional centre clocked in and made him go wild with those thoughts (or put him into a different state of mind), he could self-remember enough to be able to see those thoughts which led to a different emotion. By doing this, he found he connected much more with a deeper self which was able to stop the runaway horses of emotion taking root.
In the first part of the month, T had remembered the challenge when she was late, or at work, or rushing to something. She had remembered to do the deep breath and the humming, but it was just on a few occasions when she remembered about connecting with nature, and it had tended not to be the natural world, but seeing her hand, or feeling her face. So it had come at points of stress. In the second part of the month, there had been some intense life events.- two funerals in a week, and it was more connected with intense emotion, and thoughts racing. So it was a relief when she was doing the humming. For her the vibration in the head was difficult to sense.
During the time allocated for responses, there was much discussion on the benefits of nature, but none on instances of doing the challenge.
The reading continued from Chapter 27 of Beelzebub's Tales.
Of course, these objective attainments then, as it is said, ‘attracted-the-attention’ of all around them, who thereupon made those who had attained stand out from their midst and paid them every kind of respect; they also strove with joy to merit the attention of these outstanding beings and to have for themselves their counsel and advice how they themselves could attain the same perfecting.
And these outstanding beings of that period began in their turn to make the most attained among themselves stand out and this outstanding being thereby automatically became, without either hereditary or other right, the chief of them all, and recognising him as chief, his directings were spread correspondingly, and this recognition included not only the separate neighbouring parts of the surface of your planet, but also even the neighbouring continents and islands.
J said this described how people take authority by degrees, and what starts off as an impetus for freedom, becomes stuck in glue. RM said that we liked the glue. I want my glue instead of yours. O said the teachings were incompletely transferred because they were only listened to with one of the three centres. L said that from the moment Ashiata Shiemash appointed deputies to spread his philosophy, he had already divided society between those whom he favoured and those he did not. Once the latter wanted to join the select group, there would be the seeds for conflict..
The results of the Very Saintly Labours of Ashiata Shiemash were then also very definitely reflected in respect of that terrible peculiarity of the manifestation of the psyche of your favourites, namely, in their ‘irresistible-urge-for-the-periodic-destruction-of-each-other’s-existence.’
The process of reciprocal destruction established there and ensuing from that terrible particularity of their psyche entirely ceased on the continent Asia, and only proceeded occasionally on those large and small parts of the surface of that planet of yours, which were far from the continent Asia. And this continued there only because owing to their distance the influence of the initiates and priests could not reach and be transubstantiated in the presence of the beings breeding on these parts of the surface of your planet.
...The said decline in both their death rate and their birth rate proceeded because, as they approximated to an existence normal for the three-centred beings, they also began to radiate from themselves vibrations responding more closely to the requirements of Great Nature, thanks to which Nature needed less of those vibrations which are in general obtained from the destruction of the existence of beings.
N said there was a cosmic reflection in Gurdjieff's philosophy between organic life on Earth and the whole planetary system - reciprocal maintenance - and if things got out of balance there were wars, destruction and famine.
