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+Fourth Way is a path of energy and consciousness where a person can generate an evolutionary energy called "Do 48" through a meditation practice called "self remembering" more deliberately, rapidly, and efficiently than the other paths, which have to work harder to produce a small amount of this energy in a more indirect way. This book is based on a series of introductory lectures that Ouspensky gave in London and in other places. These lectures inspired many people in London to form a group there, many of them part of the "intelligensia" of the area, including Orage, Maurice Nicole, Kenneth Walker, and others. Many of the ideas of the Fourth Way did influence the formation of many branches of western psychology and even brain research. Gurdjieff taught, for instance, that humans were "three brained beings" and this idea became the basis of the research into the R-complex (reptilian brain), Limbic system (mammalian emotional brain), and cortex (intellectual human brain) of Restak and Macclain. Gurdjieff also made other scientific assertions that were later verified by western science. The Fourth Way is a variation of Sufi teaching that was related to the Sarmoun community.
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+The hurricane is what saves new orleans from total destruction, the entire atlantic fleet is washed ashore and many of the soldier defect. Sil survives like a rat, playing both sides to his own ends, meets dean in his interactions with the underworld and starts running people out of the new protectorate. Neither side in the end wants him and he wants neither, the true anarchist and somewhat deranged in an edward abbey monkey wrench gang sort of way.
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+dolphin blue water wave foam sea sand cacti desert green ridges between thorns virticle row thorns like spikes extending in 8 pointed stars astisks writing words lilly warmth in the belly, the fairt twitch of erection, the wind moving over her body, the tickle of haris in the wind, the cool air like a breath ppassing over you. interconnected points of light, geometric fpatterns of light the guides, quit smoking come abck when you are ready this didnt happen for me it happened for someone else the metaprogrammingg jere is all pulled from a book I readthe star like patterns of light like green orbs in the windsield a stop light in the rain reflected like moonlight on obsidion she ran her fingers through the skin of his scrotum kneeding it like warm dough, soft and plaint in her hand
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+"Waiben in an airport, the disconnect with Claire, perhaps from having seen her recently (ie the funeral) or perhaps during the relationship but either way the message is that he feels estranged and he's trying to recreate the same scene in  india where the second collider is being built in secret.... a big part of the backlash against the "progress" of science is laid at his feet. Nadar's presidency in the second term is built, predicated even, on the idea that the real enemy is rational thought, the obliteration of rational thought will give those (the masses) who misunderstand and hate it the means to create their own warped universe, or culture, where irrational thought is king -- the "protectorate" where there is no need to think or feel for one's self, everything is provided for via religion, politics, sports and other "entertainment"... (also, be careful to delineate between emotion and feeling, the later being a twisting, a flawed interpretation, of the former, which is, unmediated, much closer to what we call intuition than "feeling" which is always filtered through a lens... the interpretation of the raw into the quantifiable is necessarily filtered through the lens of experience which is in turn shaped by the systems which we grew up in -- ie patriarchy, property, right, wrong, etc.... At the same time the presidency manipulates that and uses the buildup of mercury into antennae (via childhood immunizations...) to broadcast (literally, via wavelengths from radio towers) messages that sound, to those who hear them, indistinguishable from the I, in other words, for those who don't know the me, the metaprogrammer that creates the I, the voice of their I is indistinguishable from the voice of the government... the radio towers need to play into the symbolism of that passage, whether through the eyes of claire or sil, the key is the imagery, the digression into wavelengths that lays the foundation for the supercollider, the wavelengths (nee particles) smashed together is at once to collision of literal atoms, but also the collision of broadcast information from the government via the message colliding with the surreptitiously created antennas that receive them, intra-brain... which is in turn the parting of ways between sil and waiben. Waiben wants to literally create a new world, sil wants to wake other people up and show them that the "other" world is, has been and always will be, available to them at any time, regardless of what's happening in their own world (a chance to expound on the power and drive of both the biological and cultural imperative versus the will of the individual -- i.e. the endless struggle to be "me" with the confines of I, which is created by the shaping forces of culture and biology... or, in other words, waking up to hear the words, everything is permissible, but of course that's meaningless if you haven't opened the door to "everything," if you haven't let go of the constructs that created you... also, the gap between the physical, literally smashing two atoms together to create a superfilm, versus the mental... eating... say peyote... to access the same realm... which is more real? why do we as a culture seem to swallow the former hook line and sinker and dismiss the later as mysticism and hallucination... what does that say about us...)"
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+Claire and Chaz (TK) travel into northern mexico, the sonic wall goes up, the find the expat community of san miguel de allende and he starting running druges north, driving semis, flyhing light planes, etc, to pay for their living expense and to save money so they can head to india or asia the last sane places on earth.... meanwhile claire gets pregnant. At  some point she is in trouble, some problem with the baby... she winds up inside the fence, having the baby which is taken away from her... Lazlo arranges for the baby to smuggled out via Sil... When Sil and Dean, heavy in forgein script... head south their intention is sell the script, to fight the us etc  etc, they end with katje on their hands and they ruun into claire, who at first doesn't recognize her own daughter? Is that possible? Or perhaps she does, and they head to... europe to spread the ashes? What about the book? perhaps something in the book drives them to europe? if so what?
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+The story of claire in the interim between tucson and new orleans told through the eyes of her reading the book, which is in turn hinting at cycle 2, the storyof getting to new york, the ocean voyage, the lost at sea aspect the impoending doom of wwi, etc etc.
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