Create the Witness
"Remember yourself always and everywhere"
G.I. Gurdjieff
Self-observation, rightly conducted, becomes sacred alchemy. In the heat of conscious struggle, resistance unveils the machine. Attention sharpens, intention aligns, and illusion cracks. Through this inner friction, a finer substance forms—fuel for the birth of real I.
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Harmonizing the Heart and Brain
All higher states of being begin with the alignment of feeling and thought. When the rhythm of the heart slows to six breaths per minute, something unusual happens: the electrical field of the heart begins to pulse in a steady wave. This wave is not confined to the chest; it extends beyond the body, forming a subtle field that can influence both inner states and the surrounding atmosphere.
This harmonization awakens the possibility of three-centered balance thought, emotion, and movement working together without contradiction. This balance reflects the principle of the Law of Three, and the breath at this rhythm provides the needed shock at the Mi-Fa interval of the octave within.
Modern science finds that this state changes the chemistry of the body. It strengthens the regenerative forces and lowers the destructive ones. Gurdjieff described this as the transformation of coarse substances into finer ones through conscious effort.
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Rewriting the Patterns of the Mind
The mind is filled with habits that were not consciously chosen. These patterns, stored in the deeper structures of the brain, operate automatically and form what Gurdjieff called the false personality. They must be softened and replaced through deliberate effort.
To begin this work, one must first notice when one is acting, speaking, or thinking in a way that is not truly chosen. Each act of awareness weakens the power of mechanical habit. In time, new pathways open, allowing more contact between thought and sensation, between memory and direct perception.
This is the beginning of the formation of a new body not of flesh, but of attention, will, and understanding.
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Seeing the Hidden Laws of Reality
Reality, in its outer form, appears fixed. But the deeper structure of the world responds to the quality of our attention. Gurdjieff taught that all worlds feed one another, and man stands at a point of possible influence, both receiving and transmitting.
To see this, one must begin to recognize the operation of the Law of Three in daily life affirming forces, denying forces, and the reconciling impulse that brings transformation. One must also begin to sense that time is not linear. There are moments when a deeper dimension becomes visible, where the past, present, and future touch.
Certain areas of the brain, little understood by science, may act as receivers for these impressions. The pineal gland, for instance, may serve as a point of contact between levels.
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Changing the Expression of the Body
What appears fixed in the body its chemistry, its limits, even its aging is not as fixed as it seems. The body responds to the presence or absence of conscious effort. Gurdjieff spoke of the transformation of substances within the body through attention, struggle, and inner silence.
Science now finds that meditation and inner stillness can change how genes express themselves. The body can begin to regenerate, and hidden capacities can become active. This is the biological echo of the formation of a higher body within.
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Expanding the Field of Awareness
We are trained from childhood to look in one direction and ignore the rest. This narrowness creates the illusion of being separate, enclosed in the body. But there are ways to see more broadly, to become aware of the entire space one occupies.
This kind of seeing is not just with the eyes. It includes sensation, sound, breath, and the inner landscape. Gurdjieff described it as simultaneous awareness a state where one knows oneself and one’s surroundings together.
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Understanding Time from Within
Time, that merciless heropass, measures the depth of sleep and it drags us forward without choice. But it is possible to step aside, to experience another flow that is not bound to events or memory. Gurdjieff called this entering the moment of real consciousness.
This shift can happen in silence, in suffering, in moments of clarity. One sees that what seems to come later is already forming now. One sees how a small choice today creates a large result tomorrow.
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Returning to the True Self
All these efforts point toward one aim: to awaken the real I. This is not the personality, nor the roles we play. It is a presence that exists independently of thoughts and feelings, but can use them when needed.
When self-remembering becomes steady, when the centers begin to obey a single will, when the mind grows quiet and the body becomes a servant rather than a master then the possibility of real being appears.
This is what Gurdjieff called objective consciousness.
