If you are honest with yourself, can you say that you have ever really pondered for even a few minutes what does the term “negative emotion” mean? I doubt that you have, and don’t worry about it because very few of us have. The problem we are up against is that there is a great deal of speaking, thinking, and emoting about negative emotions in the Work due to contradictory understandings.
How often do I notice in myself that I have conflicts going on in my own psyche? Simple examples: I want to get up and go out and do things, and yet all I do is sit around and look at YouTube on my phone; I remember that I need to call a friend and haven't spoken with her in a long time, but I don't call her; I say I'm going to practice the piano every day or maybe at least a couple of times a week, but the piano sits and I don't practice at all. How often do we notice these different aspects of ourselves, and if we do notice them, what do we generally do in reaction to them?
After leaving Canada in 2021, I embarked on what we could call a sort of independent journey of exploration into the Work in a variety of settings, participating in parallel in official IAGF Groups in Chile, international online Fourth Way experimental initiatives and in an unplanned, but strikingly necessary, approach to Zen Buddhism that helped me reconnect with the longing that first brought me to the Work.
What is this ideology, of which you have presumably heard, since you have come here tonight to find out more about, called the “Work”?
What is this ideology, of which you have presumably heard, since you have come here tonight to find out more about, called the “Work”?
In this paper, I explore how two key practices in Beelzebub’s Tales (BT), practices that should facilitate the first and second conscious shocks in Work, are unintentionally blocked by our efforts.
In this paper, I explore how two key practices in Beelzebub’s Tales (BT), practices that should facilitate the first and second conscious shocks in Work, are unintentionally blocked by our efforts.
In my field, we are tasked with the evaluation, diagnosis and occasional treatment of disorders of the nervous system, inclusive of the brain, the spinal cord, nerves and muscles.
Man being asleep means man being trapped within patterns largely laid down in him due to education, culture and a vast variety of social structures.