Der Vierte Weg

"The Fourth Way" is one of the main sources from which we can draw today from the wisdom of Georges I. Gurdjieff (1866 - 1949). It is the most comprehensive compilation of the lectures of Peter D. Ouspensky (1878 - 1947) - the most important mediator of Gurdjieff's teachings - ever published in book form. What is the "Fourth Way"? Gurdjieff distinguished a "Fourth Way" from the three traditional spiritual paths: that of the fakir, the monk and the yogi. While the fakir is limited to the perception and expansion of body-consciousness (in the "first brain"), the monk to that of feeling consciousness (in the "second brain") and the yogi to that of thinking consciousness (in the "third brain"), the "Fourth Way" is free of such limitations. It integrates the three traditional paths and the three brains of the human being. Gurdjieff held d.