Awakening. Quotes by R. Burton

According to the teaching, the Fourth Way, which was founded by the famous mystic George Gurdjieff, has four states of consciousness. Each subsequent one expands a person’s understanding of the world around him and himself - from deep “sleep” to complete “awakening”, from life in illusions to a state of insightful awareness, the achievement of which in some traditions is called the opening of the “third eye”.

Spiritual teacher Robert Earl Burton has walked this path and generously shares his acquired knowledge. The book "Awakening" is a selection of his statements over a forty-five-year period, from 1970 to 2015. From it you will learn what different states of consciousness are. And how to work with the lower centers - intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual, whose manifestations we often mistakenly consider our true "I" - helps to achieve higher states. After all, the path to awakening always includes two elements: recognizing your true nature and gaining power over your lower essence.

Robert Earl Burton pays special attention to the practice of Self-Remembering - an important tool for awakening - the ability to constantly remember oneself, to be present in every moment.
“Everyone appears in this life in a sleeping vessel, but this vessel contains the Third Eye, which can awaken” (R. Burton).