"It is illusion to say our movements are voluntary. All our movements are automatic. Our thoughts and feelings are just as automatic. The automatism of thought and feeling is definitely connected with the automatism of movement. One cannot be changed without the other. [It follows] that if a man's attention is concentrated, let us say, on changing automatic thoughts, then habitual movements and habitual postures will interfere with this new course of thought by attaching to it old habitual associations."
~ G. I. Gurdjieff

Join us this evening at 6:30 PM PST for our weekly Sunday talk.
This week’s topic — “Ruh-e-Jismani: Developing the first soul”

Mr. Gurdjieff suggested that humans do not naturally have souls, and that they must develop them over the course of their lifetime. This idea has, as one might imagine, upset some people. But what did he mean by this? Can we find any value in the model for ourselves?
We can begin to answer these questions by taking a look at the Sufi model of “The Four Souls” and how they may relate to our own inner development.

This evening we will take a look at the first of the four souls, which is called the Ruh-i-jismani, the corporeal or body soul.

Let’s take an hour to examine our corporeal soul, and let’s see what we can understand about its conscious development.