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Spiritual Seekers
By Carl Francais · 14 years ago
Do all those who seek Wisdom Schools or a teacher share similar attitudes and a similar sincerity to awaken? Before we begin to respond, it is important to understand that each seeker is doing the ...
Awaking in a Fourth Way Esoteric School
By Carl Francais · 14 years ago
An Esoteric School of Awakening possesses practical knowledge of the laws governing awakening from sleep to consciousness; and it is able to give guidance on working with these laws. These are fine words but how ...
Fourth Way Schools in the Modern Age
By Carl Francais · 14 years ago
How is one able to ascertain if a School is authentic and that the teacher is conscious? There are no ready-made formulas to determine immediately if one has found an authentic School, or if the ...
Self Observation
By Carl Francais · 14 years ago
Until we understand ourselves, it is not really possible to understand much about anything around us. To make an observation and create a memory of it, one needs to be a bit more awake, and ...
Using our suffering to produce something higher in ourselves - Presence.
By Carl Francais · 14 years ago
Suffering is inevitable. The question is how to make it useful, and in particular, how to transform it into presence. The first step in this process is not to express the suffering externally. Of course, ...