Perception of a sphere of unified consciousness

  • 2016

When we talk about unifying all the “Yos” and getting the “consciousness of our Higher Self / Self” to “peek” into the external and material world to, from there, take the management of the physical vehicle that we are for “him”, We assume that we have managed to modify this sphere of consciousness so that, if it is “opaque” and full of the multiple psychological aspects that determine the infinite facets of our personality, it is “free” and clean of them, and, with it, a once the control centers crystallized and the instinctive, emotional and mental aspects of the person balanced, we are in the transition from what Gurdjieff called the "man number 4", to what he called the "man number 5".

From the state in which the subtle bodies and control centers of the human being are found, people can basically be divided into 7 types or categories. Each "man" is cataloged between the number 1 and 7, and belongs to one or another category according to the control center that is dominant, and according to the subtle body that is more developed in the person, and has the main role on the set of the energy system that composes us. There is a lot of literature on the web, so for the topic that we are going to explain today, we only focus only on these two mentioned categories.

Before all work with oneself, we could say that our psyche could look like this:

This diagram being a representation of what we call the sphere of consciousness of the human being, and where the "real" consciousness of what we are is the central point of it, and the black points of the surface are the different I's of the personality We have been forging over the years.

Man number 4

Once a person has done enough interior work and the imbalances in his instinctive, emotional and mental personality have been corrected to some extent, Gurdjieff explained that the human being moves up the evolutionary ladder until he becomes man number 4, which is he who has balanced the centers of our physical body, and who has already created a center of conscious gravity within his sphere of consciousness. This means that he has begun to order those Yos present in his psyche, and has begun to develop the connection with that center of his sphere, from which we access our Higher Self, and the consciousness aspect of our monad. Our "unique" self begins to manifest itself, and an indivisible personality begins to solidify. For the first time, the real knowledge of oneself becomes present, one begins to perceive reality with a high degree of objectivity (with less subjective filters) and the work on our purpose for this life is possible in a totally conscious way. Thus, man number four is equanimous, responsible with himself and others, has glimpses of a higher reality through conscious, and more or less permanent, connection with that other higher part of himself, and is consistent between What you think, what you feel and what you do, because your intellectual part, your emotional part and your instinctive part are in balance, in harmony and therefore, you can work in a balanced way in all aspects of your reality.

The man number 5

Reaching the previous evolutionary stage is magnificent, but it is not the end of the road. If a person continues to work on himself, it is possible to become a "man number 5", in which the unity of control centers is fully achieved, and what is known is experienced equally in all of them. If the previous evolutionary level of "man number 4" is a transition stage, the category of "man number 5" is the one obtained when the transition is complete. At this stage, there is no going back to the previous lower levels of deformations and imbalances. A radical "crystallization" of the control energy centers occurs in the "man number 5", the development of a superior emotional body begins, and its corresponding control center is permanently active. In short, it is an evolutionary level in which the person has total real awareness of himself, a permanent and indivisible Self and all his knowledge belongs to this unique Self, having the possibility of developing additional latent functions and abilities. in the human being, but normally never active.

How the sphere of consciousness changes

It is in the transition to man number 4, where the sphere of consciousness begins to `` clean itself up '' and the different Yos that conform it disappear, giving air and space to the I (I have begun to call it the self of the being, because that is how it comes intuitively). Thus, the Self of Being links with the ego program, which is still present, and the consciousness of our Higher Self, and the sphere of consciousness begins to transform in this way:

In the image on the left, even the real consciousness of what we are is overshadowed by the personality we have, while in the image on the right the entire surface of the sphere has been opened and cleaned and access to the consciousness of the Being / Higher Self is liberated . By possessing only one yo, which serves as a link between the center of the sphere (our real consciousness) and the personality (our mascara facing the world), perception of reality becomes less subjective and more n tida, since there are fewer sub-personalities that determine, each with its own associated programs, which is what one perceiving of the outside world.

Eliminating the Yos that cram the theater of our psyche, then goes through identifying them one by one through the self-observation of our behaviors, to understand the yo that has just taken command of the whole of the personality, and, once understood, it is only necessary to move the energy aspect of the omnished essence towards that Self with a clear and precise order so that it disappears completely. Once eliminated, the intention of expanding the Self of the Being so that it occupies the space of the eliminated I is sufficient to open it and expand it, thus moving towards the crystallization of the personality until it is "Indivisible", and the state of "man number 5" materializes.

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AUTHOR: David Topí

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