COLD APPROACHING as SPIRITUAL TRAINING -GURDJIEFF
The Mechanics of the First Conscious Shock:
The First Conscious Shock is Self-Remembering at the moment of intake.
When an intense impression hits you—like stepping up to cold-approach a woman—your organism registers a threat. In an unconscious state, the impression triggers panic, your heart races, and you walk away (leaking H48). This drains your life force, burning energy mechanically.
BUT If, at that exact second, you apply Self-Remembering ("I am here, observing this fear in my chest"), you introduce a conscious shock. That shock acts as a catalyst: it transforms the raw impression (H48) into H12.
H12 represents the refined energy that fuels higher consciousness. Under normal conditions, the human organism produces H12 in minuscule amounts because self remembering goes missing during everyday life.
When you walk toward a stranger in public:
The brain registers potential social exile or rejection as physical danger. It floods your system with adrenaline.
H12 Generation:
--Conscious Path: You feel the surge of fear, acknowledge the impulse to run, and you refuse to identify with it. You raise your voice, step into the interaction, and hold your ground while your chest is burning.
The Result: The intense friction between your conscious aim and your physical fear acts as the heat source. It takes the raw, chaotic impression of fear and cooks it into H12.
When you finish the interaction—regardless of whether she responds warmly or walks away—you notice a distinct physical state: you feel hyper-present, electrified, calm, and rooted. That electricity is the presence of H12 circulating through your moving and emotional centers.
This is alchemy.
In the average man the results of his mentation and feelings often lead to this, as it might be expressed, "a fly becomes and elephant and an elephant a fly." -Gurdjieff
A mouse crawls in your bed, you tremble and fear. The most harmless of beasts leaves shivers down your spine. But you can contemplate your death without fear, without trembling. It is impossible to explain man's contradictions. -Gurdjieff
GTA 6 drops in 8 days.
Millions will spend hundreds of hours controlling a character on a screen.
Now ask yourself who's controlling you.
Tonight, run this test:
1. Count how many times today you reached for your phone without deciding to.
2. Notice how many reactions were scripted. Same irritation, same excuse, same loop.
3. Ask: if this were a game, would I be the player or the NPC?
Over the next 8 days I'll show you how three teachers saw life as a game, and how to take the controller.
Words that changed Gurdjieffs life
From his dying Grandmother
“In life never do as others do
Either do nothing- just go to school, or do something nobody else does”
(Beezlebub’s Tales)
Gurdjieff on Morality
Nobody ever does anything for the sake of evil, or in the pure interests of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way.
Men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. This is the deep sleep in which they live. This is so obvious that it seems strange people have not thought of this before. Because everyone considers his good the only good. -G
Gurdjieff Lesson on Sex
Gurdjieff was at a dinner and was being poked fun at for his “theories”
He then proceeded to hypnotize his guests into having an orgy at the dinner table, convincing them of their sleep.
After seeing what they had done, his guests became horrified and Gurdjieff demanded payment, collecting several thousand dollars.
Gurdjieff on Americans
“The Americans,” he said, “are good people, not nasty rotten, but good. But that not enough. They sheep, good sheep, responding obediently to anything suggested, but not take course by themselves. Question—which is better: good sheep or bad dog? They must show more initiative not necessarily toward me or Institute, but in daily life—all for exercise of Will.”