Rodney Collin (26 April 19093 May 1956) was a writer and thinker connected with the Fourth Way tradition, taught to him by his beloved teacher and mentor, the late P.D. Ouspensky. Before finding the Work, Collin grew up in Brighton, England and attended the London School of Economics. He worked for the British Census Office and wrote for various other publications. The scope of his thoughts and understanding was monumental and synthetic. He arrived at a picture of the sequence of civilizations within world history that included both technological and moral development in humankind. His unique understandings of time and interpretations of ancient mythology and art are also noteworthy. Mr. Collin did much to materialize the aim of his teacher to integrate modern science with ancient wisdom, a process he correlated with the difference and relationship between laws and facts or deductive and inductive reasoning. Rodney Collin passed away in Cuzco, Peru where he and some students had traveled to work on publishing, theatre, and establishing a school on a continent that they believed would be the birthplace of a new spiritual civilization. His legacy continues in his classic and intellectually generous books The Theory of Celestial Influence, The Theory of Eternal Life, and The Theory of Conscious Harmony, published posthumously from the authors notes and letters.

Mr. Collin shared the practical and utilitarian spirit of his instructors in the Fourth Way. Although a brilliant thinker and adept in areas of theory and philosophy, he faithfully connected each aspect of information presented, whether in science, mathematics, etc., with work on oneself. A significant contribution in this connection made by Rodney Collin to the Fourth Way canon was the idea of the triad of self-remembering. In the teaching given by Gudjieff there were two universal laws: three and seven. Each phenomenon, in order to exist, must abide by these two laws. In the case of the law of three, this means that everything in the universe must consist of at least three forces: active, passive, and neutral. Because the state of self-remembering, which is the core practice of this teaching, exists as a definite and measurable psychological condition, it must similarly consist of three parts, although these had not subsequently been formulated. Collin determined that if self-remembering was defined by divided attention, keeping a ratio of ones attention between oneself and the environment, there must be a third force overseeing these two; this he called God and symbolized by the sun. He likened this to the Holy Trinity, as he delicately and articulately connected many ideas from the system of the Work, along with Dr. Nicoll, to Judeo Christian teaching, catalyzed by the particular religious tradition of the West and by Mr. Gurdjieffs auxiliary definition of the Fourth Way as esoteric Christianity.

A symbol introduced by Gurdjieff to the modern West called the Enneagram or nine pointed star (ennea=nine, gramma=written) arranges the digits 1 -10 along a circle while indicating the inner relationships and progressions among these numbers using shapes that represent the laws of three and seven. The law of three states that each event is a combination of three different forces and the law of seven or law of octaves determines the progression of each event in time. The law of seven contains the idea that all phenomena vibrate internally with a certain music that can ascend or descend with exact knowledge of chords that produce harmony. Plato also mentioned this musical idea in reference to the planets and also to the human soul. It is likely that the musical scale itself was originally a formulaic representation of observed planetary movement.Gurdjieff claimed that a deep understanding of this figure would unlock the secrets of the universe and that all knowledge could be stored along its lines and points. Rodney Collin, as Ouspensky, used the enneagram to plot and explain numerous phenomena in nature such as growth in man, the development of human civilization, planetary and solar rotations, and the essence of time itself. He believed that the connections revealed by the internal depths of the numerical relationships on this symbol accounted for and could be used to logistical gaps and processes hitherto deemed mysterious by modern scientific understanding. Essentially, Collin attempted to illustrate the various invisible chords linking events in time and space that either appear to be disparate or conversely seem strangely connected. In this way, he provided a manner of understanding relativity or the view of things in the world from a higher or fourth dimensional perspective.

Additionally, Collin anticipated trends in using logarithmic or exponential calculation to understand speeds in development of organic and inorganic processes and to predict their outcome. He diligently plotted the stages of physical and cognitive growth in humans along a logarithmic scale and sought to alter natural intuition about the linearity of ones lifetime. Processes begun with great speed gradually become slower and slower and are gradually replaced by evolutionary emphasis upon subtler and more intelligent functions. Each step or stage is built upon the last and is dependant upon it successful completion and release of force or energy. Retardations or arrestments in lower functioning due to trauma or insufficient nourishment will cancel possibilities in higher functioning like a damaged seed that cannot bear fruit or an intellect that is too noisy or contradicted to perceive stillness or acquire peace. He arranged the relationships between these separate time scales upon a three dimensional figure consisting of two infinity symbols linked at their midpoints. Each circle represented the complete time of its antecedent contained within one unit of its own progression. Once the passage from one cycle to the next was accomplished, activity in the previous circle was locked and fixed like the form of water when crystallized into ice at the exact temperature where liquid becomes solid.

For the purpose of achieving a meaningful synthetic link with scientific nomenclature Collin assigned these various time scales the terms mineral, cellular, molecular, electronic by virtue of their speed and length of lifetime. Physical processes in man he corresponded with mineral and cellular growth whereas cognitive and spiritual unfolding with that of the molecular and electronic worlds. In a mood of scientific and religious valency that characterizes Collins writings, an analogy between these different material distinctions and the judgement of the soul after death and its journey into the realms of paradise, heaven, and hell was made. As microcosmic man, we technically have access to all these places and levels of density within ourselves and Mr. Collin, as Mr. Ouspensky, always stressed the value of practical methods of developing consciousness in the more rarefied reaches of our internal atmosphere and ecosystem.

Derived from Ouspenskys six dimensional model of the universe and the laws of the Ray of Creation, Collin describes six fundamental processes contained within each complete cosmos. In specific relation to our particular situation as humans, he organizes each process as a different arrangement of the sun, planets, and earth, or life, form, and matter. Mr. Ouspensky, at the end of his life began to explain these six kinds of activity into which every action can be classified, but Collin carried this metaphor much further, looking in detail about what each process means and giving many nuanced examples.

Collin, inspired by medieval alchemy and medicine and also the work of Dr. Berman, linked each gland in the human endocrine system with the influence of a particular planet. By assigning dominant centers of gravity of different people in distinct glandular manefestations, he arrived at six central planetary types and variable subdivisions thereof. This teaching can be quite useful in the task oriented group dynamics that characterize the Fourth Way schools and was developed even more completely in Mr. Burtons teaching.

Schools of the fourth way have existed and exist, just as schools of the three traditional ways existed and exist. But they are much more difficult to detect, because unlike the others they cannot be recognized by any one practice, one method, one task, or one name. They are always inventing new methods, new practices, suitable to the time and conditions in which they exist, and when they have achieved one task which was set them they pass on to another, often changing their name and whole appearance in the process.

Schools of the fourth way were undoubtedly behind the designing and construction of the great Gothic cathedrals, though they had no special name and adapted themselves to the religious organization of the time. For a time the Cluniacs sheltered them, for a time the Freemasons. In the seventeenth century, similar schools were responsible for much of the new scientific and medical research, sometimes under one name and sometimes under another. In the eighteenth century again, fourth way schools borrowed many of the discoveries of Greek and Egyptian archeology to clothe their ideas and their organization, while some of their leaders in order to penetrate the luxury-loving and sophisticated circles where they had work to do might even appear in the guise of fashionable magicians or mesmerists.

In the fourth way, respect for sex and a positive attitude towards it are fundamentally necessary. Ouspensky insisted that nothing negative, either in thought or emotion, should be allowed to touch it; that all higher development began with sexual normality.

In the Fourth Way people have to be disillusioned at home, to go out bravely into the world to find truth, to be illumined there, and then bring light home again.

No one who has really begun to work on the Fourth Way can leave it. They may stop on the way for a short or long time, but they cant leave it. Because it is the most complete truth. And our training in the Fourth Way enables us to go straight to the deepest side of religion. The Fourth Way is the way of harmonising all sides of life, reconciling all truths. If it shows us how to bring conscious understanding to psychology, science, art and all the problems of practical and personal life, does it not show us how to come to religion, which is the highest aspiration of the human mind?

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Lakshmiis the Goddess of love, good fortune, beauty and prosperity. She blesses those with clear focus, goals and direction; especially on the spiritual path.

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Lakshmi Rising Vinyasa Yoga is an awareness-based practice that includes fluid, dynamic asana, kriya, pranayama, mantra, meditation, dance, wellness, self-care and ritual for health and awakening.

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We often hear of the question What Is Yoga? But I ask, Why Do Yoga?

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In each new age, the previous age persists, and within the previous age impulses from the ages preceding it. The series may reach back a very long way, but at a certain point continuity with the past is lost. Our memory as a species, our sense of vision and of guiding purpose, is weak, and indeed, grows weaker with each decade. In the nineteenth century, the memory of the medieval world was present in a way that it is not today. In the twentieth century the memory of the Renaissance still persists in our habits and our way of life, but the memory of the classical world and ofclassicism has nearly faded.

In the mid nineteenth century there were, in Asia Minor, strands of memory running back deep into the history of our family of civilisations, to Babylon and Chaldea. They were preserved over such vast spans of time because they were of value, and they were preserved by the work of school. George Gurdjieff connected with this thread, and with the knowledge he found, he opened up the fourth way. Not the centripetal force of ever increasing knowledge and ever more sophisticated technique, but a knowledge of basic things. The knowledge of the conditions of mans connection to a higher level of creation. What could be of greater significance for us, and what has been more clearly disregarded in the politics and polity of our age? Out of this knowledge, out of this connection to historical memory came the vision of The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man.

Man, as he is, does not have the wherewithal to bridge this interval; his collective memory is little more than the prime years of his life. The politics, policies, and programmes of the various national governments are reactive, in the sense that they represent responses to short-term issues. Ideologies, such as Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, and Communism, have a longer life because they develop out of the fundamental social issues of a period, and are driven by those issues until the opposition or polarity is exhausted. They are not an expression of mans cumulative best understanding of what is possible for him, individually or collectively. Religion is not innocent of this charge. The meaning of direction of a religion changes from one generation to the next. Christianity today would be almost unrecognisable to a Christian in the first century AD. What continuity there is, is given by problems and issues that are continuous. The organisations which serve as the carriers of religious beliefs are driven by rivalry, by the struggle for power and position, by material interests of one kind or another.

No one would have seen this more clearly than Gurdjieff. The Caucasus was a collection of populations displaced and relocated by war. It was a place of hardship, emotional and instinctive. It was also a place that offered a view of some of the greatest traditions in human civilisation and culture (beginning with the very bardic songs of Gurdjieffs father). The contrast was extreme.

Gurdjieffs epic literary workBeelzebubs Talesgives the background, the atmosphere, the fundamental orientation and the picture of the universe that informs the Fourth Way in our time. It is the world view which supports the efforts required to awaken.The implications of Beelzebubs Tales is that humanity needs individuals to awaken, and, as a medium of life, it needs to be maintained at a level that can generate such individuals. Civilisation can do this. Society cannot. This outlines the relation between schools and civilisations in the course of history. Higher influences are responsible for civilisation. Without civilisationwith society onlythey cannot replicate themselves, and since they have an interest in replicating themselves, they sustain civilization.

Homo Sapiens is unaware of this process. It was Mr. Gurdjieffs teaching that homo sapiens itself is a part of organic life. This relationship to organic life involves contradiction, the contradiction of higher and lower levels coexisting. For the higher level can only exist through sustained effort and in an atmosphere of tension, while the lower level exists naturally and of itself.

Mankind, in this respect, has two histories: the evolution of its body and the evolution of its soul. The former is recorded and imparted in great detail: the development of religions, the lineages of rulers and monarchs, the successions and revolutions of governments and so forth. But the history of mankinds soul, the long body of its wisdom, never goes into the books. And yet, that history has existed just like the other, side by side with the other, and at critical moments, has overlapped with the other.

Those overlapping moments are times of exceptional opportunity. They represent an interval in the sequence of civilization. They call for a return to the original spark, a connection to the level from which the greater project was initiateda dialogue with the cosmos above the cosmos of man. Those individuals who find themselves caught in such big events are given to experience glimpses beyond the normal spectrum of human experience. They are invited to dedicate their lifes labors to a cause much larger than themselves; they are invited to board and support the Great Ark ofAncient Wisdom.

There are periods in the life of humanity, which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations, when the masses irretrievably lose their reason and begin to destroy everything that has been created by centuries and millenniums of culture. Such periods of mass madness, often coinciding with geological cataclysms, climatic changes, and similar phenomena of a planetary character, release a very great quantity of the matter of knowledge. This, in its turn, necessitates the work of collecting this matter of knowledge which would otherwise be lost. Thus the work of collecting scattered matter of knowledge frequently coincides with the beginning of the destruction and fall of cultures and civilizations. From In Search of the Miraculous (p.45)

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Find the Best Yoga Retreats in New York

Oh, New York. The place that has inspired many movies, songs, artists, and businesses. There is a certain vibrating body energy about the state thats a bit hard to put your finger on.

The city is a world of its own and the country is equally transformative with its rolling hills and colorful leaves.

Its the perfect place to shed yourself of your old layers and grow into a new season of your life.

There is a whole lot more to New York than just New York City. Escape to the countryside or explore the boundless mountains. Attend workshops led by wellness giants such as the Integrative Wellness Group over in New Jersey, or escape to a Sivananda Ashram yoga retreat in the Catskill mountains. You will find exactly what you are looking forsomewherein New York.

The countryside of New York is absolutely gorgeous and mostly untouched for vast expanses of land. Head out of the noise of the city and deepen your meditation practise. Enjoy a nice, restorative yoga practice during your meditation retreat.

New York has become a little hub for acro yoga, with studios all over Manhattan and Brooklyn equipping themselves with trained instructors to help make the practice more approachable. Whether youre a beginner or an expert, you will find a yoga studio or retreat that will stretch your limits.

New York is a hub for wellness (believe it or not) so you will easily find programs that support as much. Jump into a full-blown wellness retreat or attend daily yoga classes and workshops with one of the many stunning wellness centers in the area. There is ample opportunity to improve your health and well-being in New York.

Yoga in New York is serious business. You can find yoga classes for virtually any yoga style and join like-minded people for a quick yoga session in the park. That is one of the best perks of being in New York! But if you're looking for a yoga vacation program of sorts, one where you can fully immerse yourself in the yoga center, practice daily yoga, get some fresh air, and totally improve your overall wellness, then look no further.

In and around New York, you will find a wide variety of options to choose from. Search for a spiritual retreat that strengthens the body and mind or reward yourself with a luxury retreat complete with spa treatments and down comforters. Search for the perfect wellness center for your perfect wellness retreat, or escape to a silent meditation retreat at a nearby ashram. The possibilities are endless.

Since there are just so many excellent possibilities, why don't we help you out a bit? Here are the top retreat centers and yoga studios in the greater New York area:

The Dharma Yoga Center,led by the venerable Dharma Mittra, is like an educational center for all things yoga. They hold a Dharma Yoga conference each year with workshops and panel discussions to discuss the merits of yoga and how to improve upon the existing foundation. Guests can enjoy yoga classes with their most respected yoga teachers or get their own yoga certification with Dharma Yoga.

This yoga retreat and spiritual centreis about an hour outside of the city, leading you to the perfect setting for absolute peace. They offer daily yoga meditation sessions, as well as lessons on Sanskrit, chantings, dance, and music. It is a beautiful setting for you to embark on your life-changing experience.

If you need an escape or weekend getaway to a beautiful setting that just feels like home, then this is the place to be. Guests can relax into a warm family vibe and completely immerse themselves into their yoga practice without all the buzz that usually comes with resorts and spas.

Yogis from all over the world head to this retreat center to bask in the undisturbed beauty of New York. They teach yoga as a lifestyle so that their students learn to incorporate yoga into their everyday lives. A yogic lifestyle includes healthy eating habits, proper breathing, positive thinking, relaxation, and, of course, the exercise that yoga provides. If you'd like to immerse yourself into the yogic lifestyle, then this is a great option for you.

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In a mothers womb were two babies. One asked the other: Do you believe in life after delivery? The other replied, Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.

Nonsense said the first. There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?

The second said, I dont know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we wil...l have other senses that we cant understand now.

The first replied, That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.

The second insisted, Well I think there is something and maybe its different than it is here. Maybe we wont need this physical cord anymore.

The first replied, Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.

Well, I dont know, said the second, but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.

The first replied Mother? You actually believe in Mother? Thats laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?

The second said, She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.

Said the first: Well I dont see Her, so it is only logical that She doesnt exist.

To which the second replied, Sometimes, when youre in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.

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Connect with friends or whnauConnecting with people can help you feel better faster and stay well for longer. Try some of these ideas if you haven't been keeping in touch with friends or whnau for a while.

Find one of these occasions to get in touch:

We know that when people are feeling low and anxious, they often withdraw from their whnau and friends. Its a natural response but actually, strong connections can help you get well faster and help you stay well for longer.

Your whnau and your community can be your strength, providing a strong sense of belonging and support (tautoko). Getting involved, spending time with them, and even doing things for them can give you a feeling of purpose and wellbeing.

Its good to get out in public, even if its just down to the shops or to a sports match. If youre getting together with people, keep the visits short if that makes it easier. You dont have to talk about the way youre feeling.

It might help to plan your outings. Decide what youre going to do and write down when youll do it. This makes it easier to ignore those negative feelings that stop you going at the last minute.

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