Answering the question, What's the difference between these ideas and other ideas I may have heard before?

Answering the questions: What is esoteric? Why should I study anything esoteric? What's the point?

Our pride and vanity are often offended by the idea we're machines reacting rather than conscious beings responding to our environment. To change our lives we've got to be willing to give up some precious illusions about ourselves.

The three levels of sleeping man and how to discover where your center of gravity is.

We're influenced in life. The way to have a better life is to get ourselves under better influences. A good place to start is knowing what influences are available to us. Consciousness means choice.

An email question from a listener leads us to talk about the Four Ways to awakening or enlightenment. The Way of the Fakir, The Way of the Monk, the way of the Yogi and The Way of the Balanced Man.

This is a brief introduction to the principles of The Fourth Way. It’s aimed at people who know little or nothing about this ancient system revived by Gurdjieff. A good place to start before launching into the more complex concepts of the system.