Energies By: Carlo & Karen Cernicchi
AIM of this presentation • The ALCHEMY Of TRANSFORMATION • Every day we must design an exercise that will help us see each one of the energies with the experience, with the added intellectual definition. • The aim is to give some guiding structure to direct self observation. • Unless you are in the energy state to see, you can’t see. • Experience of the higher energies is an act of Grace.
SYSTEM OF 3 BRAIN BEINGS • 3 BRAIN BEINGS:
HUMANS
• 2 BRAIN BEINGS:
MAMMALS
INTELLECTUAL- HEAD –MIND- THINKING • Higher Intellectual (ONLY IN POTENTIAL) • Formatory Apparatus
EMOTIONAL –HEART- FEELING • Higher emotional (ONLY IN POTENTIAL) • Negative Emotions
BODY
• 1 BRAIN BEINGS:
SIMPLE LIFE FORMS
• Instinctive • Moving • Sexual
The world of energies… (Alam-i arvah) The world of energy contains the forces that animate all things. • Energies are different in quality and quantity. Energies as VERBS
& the world of objects. (Alam-i ajsam) The world of objects is all things as they are themselves. • The centers contain the instruments of our human function. • Things as NOUNS
The 3rd World • The World of the possibilities • • • • •
(Alam-i imkan) – World of choices between Will Triads Relates to the Will of God. God not as a Being, but as Will. In this world, The Will of God is able to be reached directly. It is the influence of next world higher than our objective place ie W48, W24, W12, W6, W3, W1. • It requires an Affirming Decision, and a seeing and non-reacting to the inevitable Denying Force. • Then, in any situation, the closest we can come to the Will of God is the entry and acceptance of the Reconciling Force.
SCHEME OF ENERGIES E1 TRANSCENDENT E2 UNITIVE
Energies of The Divine
COSMIC E3 CREATIVE E4 CONSCIOUS
Energies of seeing
E5 SENSITIVE E6 AUTOMATIC
Energies of sentience
SUBJECTIVE
LIVING E7 VITAL E8 CONSTRUCTIVE
Energies of growth
E9 PLASTIC E10 COHESIVE
Energies of form
OBJECTIVE MATERIAL
E11 DIRECTIVE E12 DISPERSED
Energies of movement
Threshold of experience
OUSPENSKI’S MODEL: EACH CENTER HAS 3 PARTS • Ouspenski claimed that the centers have parts, and each of the parts work differently. • Bennett found that the working of centers are determined by the quality of energy going through them.
MOVING
EMOTIONAL
INTELLECTUAL
OUSPENSKI’S DESCRIPTION OF PARTS OF CENTERS MOVING • Mechanical part works automatically, does not require any attention. All habits.
AUTOMATIC ENERGY
EMOTIONAL
INTELLECTUAL
• Attention is attracted or repelled and held by interest in external objects. Attention is focused and kept on a subject with no effort. Switches to another object of interest when hits the interval.
• Attention must be controlled and focused by effort & decision to stay on track through the predictable deflections in the octave of a process. • Attention is intentionally aware of oneself
SENSITIVE ENERGY
CONSCIOUS ENERGY
Definition’s of Energies • AUTOMATIC ENERGY: (E6) – Robotic & Mechanical – Works by itself – Habitual/ Repetitive
• SENSITIVE ENERGY: (E5) – Reactive – Attracted / Repelled unintentionally – Uniquely personal
• CONSCIOUS ENERGY: (E4) – Seeing – Awakening a seer – Voluntary directed attention – Separation of oneself from oneself – Above the energies of life – First Conscious Shock
• CREATIVE ENERGY: (E3) – beyond conscious energy and gives it a quality of transcendent power. – Acts upon us in what Gurdjieff calls the Second Conscious Shock as we obey Thy Will. – Can occur when the Lower World is in resonant harmony with the Higher World
• UNITIVE ENERGY: (E2) – Unity of Being and Cosmic love – Unifies all experience – Redemptive power that allows return to Source – All life is one and undivided – Self is extinguished leaving only Him.
Sensitive Energies • The key to “Work on Self” is to deeply understand our own sensitive energies, as they represent the make-up of our own personal state of ordinary consciousness. • Conscious energy cannot see higher than itself, but it can see lower. Sensitive can only see automatic. • When we see the lower, we are in the seat of the higher. • The key to self observation is the seeing and understanding of what attracts, repels and magnetizes my attention, without my conscious participation and learning how to get free of that.
The FEEL when WILL blends with the Energies • UNITIVE -------------------Illumination coalescence of unitive & creative • CREATIVE --------------------Intelligence coalescence of creative & conscious • CONSCIOUS --------------------Intentionality coalescence of conscious & sensitivity • SENSITIVE --------------------Inertia coalescence of sensitivity and automatism • AUTOMATIC
AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE COSMIC:
E1(Transcendent) E2 (Unitive) E3 (Creative) E4 (Conscious)
LIVING:
E5 (Sensitive) E6(Automatic) E7 (Vital)
MATERIAL: E9 (Plastic)
E8 (Constructive)
E10 (Cohesive) E11 (Directive) E12 (Dispersed)
Something of the nature of the energy can be understood by looking at the vertical relationship to the other energies in it’s grouping.
Automatic Energies • Automatic: There is something “cohesive” and “unitive” about this energy. • It holds our structure and functions together automatically. • Our organism is automatically united into a cohesive whole.
Sensitive Energies • Sensitive: there is something “plastic”, pliable and moldable like plasticine about it. • It reflects our own unique personally subjective way of seeing the world. • The specific biases, knowledge, interests and needs of personality. • There is something “transcendent” about it which is why people MISTAKE it to be conscious. Also why great technological achievements are made with it.
Conscious Energies • Conscious: there is something constructive and dispersed about this energy. • We can see that when we make efforts to be conscious, the results very quickly disperse like trying to hold water in your hands. • Yet when we repeat those efforts time and time again, something starts to be constructed in us. • Man’s emotional nature is dispersed and not organized. Conscious energy first brings it together , then organizes it.
Creative Energies • Creative: there is something “directed” and “vital” ie alive about this energy. • For an action to be creative it must proceed in an intelligent direction with something alive and vital about it.
COSMOS OF COMPLETED MAN’S FUNCTIONS INSTINCTIVE HIGHER FEELING
SENSORY
HIGHER INTELLECTUAL
MOVING
VISUALIZING (Mental Picturing)
INTELLECTUAL (Words)
SEXUAL
EMOTIONAL
DEFINITION OF CENTRES • A Centre or Brain is a triad of Function/Being/Will • It contains an “axis” or a “center of gravity” of characteristic Function within the human biological machine. Combined with an Energy, Combined with a Will. • There are many different and specific instruments in the makeup of man. Some are actual: instruments of body, feeling, and thought. • Some are in potential: Higher Emotional (latifas-feels the presence of God) Higher Intellectual (sees, understands and obeys the Will of God)
Energies are best studied in the context of Function, Being, and Will UNITY
Functions: Centers of human biological machine
Being: Energies
Will: Actions World Laws as triads: W48, W24, W12, W6, W3 FUNCTION Work on self, Work with others, Work for Our Common Father Endlessness
Body Brain
Head Brain
Feeling
BEING
Brain
WILL
Understanding “Consciousness” • Consciousness is the NOUN form of something that is really a VERB. • The Energies are our “consciousness”. Our BEING. (Automatic, Sensitive, Conscious, & Creative) • We ignorantly think of our “consciousness” as being a function of the brain and as being centered around the head. Instead: • The seat of the Will is found in the Head. • The seat of the Functions are found in the Body. • The seat of Consciousness is found at the Heart.
Tibetan Yoga The Tibetan Book of Conscious Dying
ie. “The Bardo Thodol” says that at death consciousness retreats to the Heart!!!
DIAGRAM OF 4 SELVES •
FUNCTION (Denying force) • • •
•
BEING (Reconciling force) • • • •
•
Instruments Centers Brains Fuel, source of energy The organization of energies Consciousness is a fuel Being reconciles will & function.
WILL (Affirming Force) • • •
•
User/Driver Master Intentions & Goals What is Thy Will to be Done?
COSMIC STATES
TRUE SELF limit
UNITY
Creative Energy
DIVIDED SELF limit
Conscious Energy
REACTIONAL SELF limit
Sensitive Energy Automatic Energy
MATERIAL SELF limit FUNCTION
BEING WILL
3 ENERGIES OF 2 Brained ANIMALS
SENSITIVE
AUTOMATIC VITAL
3 ENERGIES OF PSYCHOSTATIC MAN (ORDINARY MAN “THE ANIMAL”)
CONSCIOUS
SENSITIVE AUTOMATIC
5 CENTERS OF PSYCHOSTATIC MAN • 5 Functions • This is all in the realm of automatic and sensitive energy. • Conscious energy (E4) enters only INVOLUNARILY. • The psyche works with E6, E5, E4.
Intellectual
Emotional
Instinctive
Sex
Moving
Automatic Energy: In Moving Center • Habitual posture patterns: Static postures: how you sit, stand, and lie down. • Habitual movement patterns: How you walk; How you talk; How you write. How you move your body eg Hand gestures while talking. • Prelearned coordinated actions: eg driving is an automated skilled movement pattern. • Others related to earning one’s income: chef, bricklayer, carpenter, artist, dancer, musician.
Automatic Energy: In Intellectual Center • Our automatic language used in thinking & speaking. • Formatory Apparatus: labeling things, and superficial comparing. • Speaking & thinking with readymade phrases, slang expressions, party slogans, catchwords, and clichés: “Hello, how are you?” “Have a nice day”; “To Be or Not to Be that is the question”. • Believing we know what a word means simply because we are familiar with it’s sound. • Associative thinking & talking: this reminds me of that, reminds me of this, reminds me of that and so on endlessly. • Thinking that runs by itself. • Thinking by a stimulus/ response mechanism. • Habituated to see and think only about certain familiar things: eg: a tailor sees only clothes, an architect only buildings.
Automatic Energy: In Instinctive Center • All automatic natural vital functions of body: digestion; urine; elimination; the rhythm of the heart beat; circulation of blood. • The Senses: See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell. • All reflexes as in yawning, blinking, coughing. • Preprogrammed Body Survival Mechanisms. • Gurdjieff strongly recommended not to interfere with the organic Instinctive functions. • Learned Habits : of eating, drinking & extra sleeping eg sweets, alcohol, coffee, smoking tobacco. • We can certainly work against these.
Automatic Energy: In Sexual Center • • • •
Natural: Biological functions related to reproduction. Production of sperm and egg. The body’s control of ovulation, period cycle, fertilization, pregnancy, birth. • Acquired: • Sexual habits –many of which are undesirable
Automatic Energy: In Emotional Center • • • • • • • • • • • •
Organic: Psycho-instinctive mechanisms that respond to threats to survival. Protecting self, family, children from harm. Pre programmed likes and dislikes: - liking things that are helpful for survival; -disliking things that are harmful for survival. Acquired: Small personal daily desires. Wanting. Automatically always wants something. Mechanical expression of emotions, like winge. At this level all emotions are negative. Habitual and chronic negative emotional tone. Chronic negative emotional states seen by looking at habitual facial expressions.
Sensitive Energy: In Moving Center • Movement responses in games and skilled activity. Playing games of sport. • Automated but Refined movement: eg in eye-hand coordination. As an artist, surgeon, musician. • Carrying out of a difficult learned action. As in a complex pattern. As in typing, driving, ordinary dancing, playing an instrument like a piano. • Learning new movement and postures by Imitation
Sensitive Energy: In Intellectual Center • Personal subjective ideas, theories, opinions, attention is filtered through the bias of our “education” • Attention uninterested in unfamiliar topics • Limited subjective understanding of the words when reading, writing, listening and talking. • Appropriate ordinary intellectual responses to complex external demands. • Topics we think we personally know something about. • Unexamined ideas, beliefs and assumptions, about ourselves, others, life, things.
Sensitive Energy: In Instinctive Center • • • •
Hunger, thirst, rest. Attracted to needs for biological survival Repelled by threats to survival Survival urge: Food, drink, nourishment, protection from danger eg wild animals, need for warmth in cold weather, cool in hot weather.
Sensitive Energy: In Sexual Center • • • • •
Direct stimulus response mechanism Arousal Attraction to potential mate Repulsion to undesirable mate To be avoided: arousal to sexual images from magazines and internet. These are not real experiences. In the same way that eating pictures of food from magazines will not satisfy one’s hunger.
Sensitive Energy: In Emotional Center • Compulsive Attractions and Repulsions of attention • Emotional reaction to associative triggers eg traumas related to Father cause associative reaction to anyone who is similar to Father. • Negative attraction to abusive relationships. • Compulsive desires for pleasure • Being a victim of life, or a more dominant other person • Manifestations of the passions: • (lust, greed, envy, sloth, anger, jealousy, fear embarrassment, avarice, conceit, resentment, vanity, and pride). • Identified or sensitized to Tribal or Group totems. • Reaction complexes due to past traumas. • Negative reactions always involve misperception, due to a lack of conscious energy.
Conscious Energy 2 simultaneous flows of attention Attention to self presence; internal world: body, sense organs, feelings, thoughts, attitudes, perceptual filters. Attention to what attention is doing.
Objects of the sensory fields, all things, and other people, the external world
The Work begins here The energies of Life (Energies of Sentience) go no further
than here. Conscious energy is the beginning of Cosmic energies. Conscious energy is a prerequisite before Creative energy can begin to act through the higher emotional center to awakening Feeling (Latifa’s). Up until now all emotions are basically negative. Transformation begins. “Doing” starts with the effort to control conscious energy. Creative energy is connected to the development of objective reason. Objective reason is connected to direct seeing of the Will Triads of the Higher Worlds.
BEGINNING THE ALCHEMICAL WORK OF TRANSFORMATION • The 2 higher centers are in potential and are only accessed by: • Work on oneself, ( 1st Line) • Work with others who are working on themselves, (2nd Line) • Work for the Great Work, (3rd Line) (Obeying Will Triads belonging to worlds higher than ourselves and those closer to Our Common Father Endlessness)
4 ENERGIES OF PSYCHOKINETIC MAN (MAN UNDERGOING THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION)
CREATIVE
CONSCIOUS SENSITIVE AUTOMATIC
6 CENTERS OF PSYCHOKINETIC MAN TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK • • •
• •
Control of Conscious Energy (E4) Self Remembering as the First conscious shock awakens the Higher Intellectual Connection to real thinking center develops as attention is voluntarily directed to sense organ impressions and self presence simultaneously. Intentional effort to work consciously in one’s functions Creative energy (E3) blends involuntarily and begins to stabilize the higher intellectual center, and with further work may start to awaken the higher emotional center.
Formatory Intellectual
Higher Intellectual
Negative Emotional
Instinctive
Sex
Moving
Sensitive Vs Conscious Energy Sensitive energy: • One stream of attention to personally significant outer objects. •Only able to notice people and things already known to them and special to them. •Or types of things similar to their already established personal subjective interests and habits. Conscious Energy: •Second stream of attention added toward Self. •Able to attend to new things. •Able to notice new things and people. •This cannot occur automatically only by intention. •Such higher consciousness can only develop consciously. •We cannot see ABOVE, ourselves only below. •We sit in a higher seat and are able to look down at ourselves
Conscious Energy: In Moving Center • Participation in Gurdjieff Movements • Buddhist mindfulness practice with walking, sitting, lying down. • Learning a pre-existing movement pattern eg in learning to play a new piece of music or learning to drive. • To deliberately ACT. • To make that which is accidental into intentional • 1st Line of Work
Conscious Energy: In Intellectual Center • Real thought constates what is experienced and understood through direct perception • Active Being Mentation • Sense a limb while reading. • Seeing thoughts as separate from the intangible self observer. • Meditation- dhyana ( meditative exercise to hold on to the thread of consciousness) • Active awareness inwardly and outwardly • Morning and Evening Inner Exercises intended to stabilize conscious energy. • Center of Gravity Questioning or Pondering a Work Theme with attention divided to Sensation and Feeling • 1st line of Work
Conscious Energy: In Instinctive Center • Intuition • Gut instinct • Knowing what the body objectively needs
Conscious Energy: In Sexual Center • Buddhist Highest Yoga Tantra Ritual • Self remembering by both partners during sexual intercourse. • Integrating attention of Sex center with attention of other centers and then actively blending into I. • Ability to choose abstinence from sex for extended periods of time. • Ability to stop sexual activity before orgasm. • Ability to not masturbate at all
Conscious Energy: In Higher Emotional Center
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Seeing one’s own nothingness Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others Not expressing negative emotion Efforts to decrystalize negative perceptual habits of self and others External considering- including others in our considerations, looking from their point of view. Putting yourself in the shoes of others. Choosing to sacrifice “personal pleasure time” to instead Work with others and the teaching. Efforts to stay connected with 2nd line of Work Sincere Prayer seeking guidance from our Lord God and His Messengers Mastery of Zikr Ritual participating in Group Work, which seeks God’s Will to act as 3rd force reconciling. Transformation of the passions through the fire of purification 1st and 2nd Lines of Work
5 ENERGIES OF PSYCHOTELEIOS MAN (COMPLETED MAN OF THE WORK)
UNITIVE CONSCIOUS SENSITIVE AUTOMATIC
CREATIVE
7 CENTERS OF PSYCHOTELEIOS MAN TRANSFORMATION • Control of Creative Energy (E3) • Second conscious shock ie obeying the Will of God or the higher worlds (Conscious influence) awakens and stabilizes the Higher Emotional Center. • Thy Will Be Done • Unitive energy (E2) involuntarily blends into the organism and awakening Higher Emotional Centre as the unfolding of the Latifas.
Formatory Intellectual
Higher Intellectual
Negative Emotional
Higher Emotional
Instinctive
Sex
Moving
7 Centers in 3 Stories
Creative Energy: In Moving Center • Creation of the Gurdjieff Movements • Actions performed in the creation of objective artIn the form of literature, painting, statues sculpture, music, dance, theatre, buildings and architecture.
Creative Energy: In Higher Intellectual Center • Awakening to a new level of practical understanding regarding the Work of transformation. • Questioning or pondering with attention trivided with sensation and feeling. • Satori- Experience of the Formless Emptiness of the Void. • Understanding through direct perception, response to Will Triads of higher worlds and knowing which actions are necessary to obey the Will of God • Involves 1st,2nd, & 3rd Lines of Work • Creation of legomonism- stories, myth, parable, allegory, symbols, new words from many languages eg heptaparaparshinoch, triamaznikamno.
Creative Energy: In Instinctive Center • Healing from sickness and disease. • Development of the body from embryo to adult • Development of higher being bodies
Creative Energy: In Sexual Center • Conception of a child ( External ) • Conception of a higher being body ( Internal )
Creative Energy: In Higher Emotional Center • Awaking to a new higher level of experience on the scale of Being as a result of obeying a higher Will. All 3 lines of work interacting. • Genuine opening of Latifas • Grace, and bharaka • Samadhi- Loving union with the Lord • Praying sincerely with attention trivided to include sensation, thought and feeling. • Zikr • Receiving Blessing of the living presence of the Divine
Above and Below World 1
E1 Non-existence
Imperishable
World 3 E2
World 6
E3 UNITY Higher Being Body 12 Laws
INDIVIDUALITY
E4
24 Laws Existence
Kesdjan Body ESSENCE
48 Laws
WILL
PERSONALITY
E6 BEING
E5
Planetary Body FUNCTION
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW • We can see that Creative Energy (E3) can enter into an invocational work circle at the point of UNITY, and ONLY if the lower world resonates correctly in harmony with the higher worlds. • Certain prerequisite conditions are needed for the Conscious Influence of the higher worlds to be felt. • We need all 3 Lines of Work interacting. • In other words, Creative energy (E3) cannot be accessed by “work on self” alone!
PHYSICAL BODY FUNCTIONS
KESDJAN ASTRAL BODY BEING E2 (H3) Si Nectar E3 (H6) La Ambrosia
E4 (H12) Si Sex E5 (H24) La Emotion E6 (H48) Sol Thought E7 (H96) Fa Magnetism Mechanical Shock<<<<<<< E8 (H192) Mi Gas E9 (H384) Re Liquid E10 (H768) Do Solid REGULAR Food Body made from food 3 parts-Body, Chest, Head.
E4 (H12) Sol Sex E5 (H24) Fa Emotion 1st CONSCIOUS SHOCK<<< E6 (H48) Mi Thought E7 (H96) Re Magnetism E8 (H192) Do Gas
AIR As Food Body Made of the 3 refined substances of attention, sensation and feeling.
MENTAL SOUL BODY WILL E0 (H0) Si E1 (H1) La E2(H3) Sol Nectar E3 (H6) Fa Ambrosia 2nd. CONSCIOUS SHOCK<<< E4 (H12) Mi Sex E5 (H24) Re Emotion E6 (H48) Do Thought
IMPRESSIONS As Food Body Made of 3 Wills ( 3 lines of Work)
Development over 3 octaves The development of energies proceeds over 3 Octaves. Production of energies from the products of nutrition, air, and impressions goes further after the conscious shock. And further yet again after the second conscious shock.
Energies Applied to Table of Hydrogens • E2-Unitive • E3-Creative • E4Conscious (H12) Sex energy • E5-Sensitive • E6-Automatic • E7-Vital • E8-Constructive • E9-Plastic • E10-Cohesive
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD • The Deceased is conducted by Anubis into the judgment hall of Osiris, where his HEART is weighed against a feather of the Goddess of TRUTH.
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Anubis tests the tongue of the balance, and before him stands a monster called Eater of the Dead, whose function is to consume and thus annihilate all who fail the test.
