It seems that Laura Knight-Jadczyk has started a flame war on the SOTT forum about me.
It's so sad to see the perspective of these people. They are incredibly defensive and use semantics like ammunition. It doesn't matter if the point is far from accurate, just as long as there is a retort to keep one on the defensive. That way no information is shared, and it becomes an empty worded debate.
Heres what the Wikipedia has to say about the Fouth Way:
"Gurdjieff's theoretical picture of the human organism boils down to a tripartite model consisting of three "centers": the moving, the intellectual, and the emotional. Becoming a genuine person involves balancing the three centers and becoming capable of conscious labor and intentional suffering."
It was exactly my point from the very beginning. Joe and Laura from SOTT are accusing me of having an 'overactive movement center'. That my movement center saps energy from my intellectual and emotional centers. Its funny, because that is exactly what I have been suggesting of THEM. After spending three days with them and getting a sense of how they go about thier lives, I could see that thier intellectual centers were on overdrive, sapping thier emotions and vitality.
Which consequently was why I was in France. Laura and I had been in contact through email and I mentioned that I could maybe help her with her current physical state, which she said was deteriorating rapidly. Since I'm a circus artist, I know a little bit about how to keep the body functioning at optimal level. But I'll get to that later.
I flew from copenhagen to toulouse to spend the weekend at thier chateau. After a few days I assesed that there was little I could tell her to help as her condition was a product of very poor lifestyle choices. There is no magic pill to loosing weight and being more active.
As quoted from above, becoming a genuine person involves BALANCING the three centers.
May I also add that I choose my current profession because I could spend my days reading, contemplating, and meditating and my evenings performing. Circus skills, though painfully hard to develop allow me to balance my day between movement and thought.
It seems that Laura has lumped me in Vincent Bridges as someone out to get her.
The same for Sara Vitale.
And in the same breath she accussed me of I joke I made about the Irish as being racist, she accuses me that my great grandmother who was a jewish Gypsy, makes me of Gypsy stock. The Cassiopaeans say that gypsy's are slaves of 4D STS.
So now I am some robotoid OP. A truly hyporcitical statement. I'm a racist because of a joke about the Irish circus scene is still cotton candy and elephant dung and she can basically say that an entire culture is an evil slave race of minions.
Laura has this quote on all her posts:
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson"
Indeed, I agree wholeheartedly.
Joe mocked my profession as if it was some useless masturbation of ones ego. What it DOES do for me is make death a constant reality and reminder of my own mortality. I make a living where if I an not totally invested in what I am doing, then I fall and die. Every time I go on stage, I risk my life. My hands are the only thing between me and the floor. And it's a long way down.
And yes, Laura, it concentractes the mind wonderfully.
In fact, if one were to have that sort of will, and then strive to understand key concepts of existence, and be dilligent and honest with ones lifestyle, then who KNOWS what they could obtain.
I'm not saying I'm perfect. In fact, this whole post makes me feel queasy with ego ridden doubt from both parties involved.
I just find it sad that people of intellectual bent can't find some common ground with people of physical capacities. It can be just as robotic to regurgitate facts as it can be to prance around on stage.
It keeps everyone fragmented.
Gurdjieff was a fraud. He was the first of the New Age fools. Yes, there is some truth to what he says because it is inherent in many other philosophies. But to claim that theres some easy route, a way to simplify soul searching, well, thats sort of like the fast food of the spiritual world.
I appreciate your words Montalk. They are written with a finese that I lack with words.
I have always acknowledged how my wisdom lies less with writing, and more with doing. But I am certain that each of us, no matter where thier talents lie, has the capacity to understand truth if they are willing to see thier strengths and weaknesses and work with them accordingly. That is balance...
I've always enjoyed your humor and feedback as well. The "hall of mirrors" is probably the best way that I have heard this life experience in 3 words described. Thanks. It's not always easy and it's not always fun....but it's always interesting and worth a big old scratch to the head eh?
