Each day the sun comes up and foolish men and women refuse to see that everything is happening in the only way it can happen. There is no free will on Planet Earth. That is the teaching of the Work of Gurdjieff. We are all robots thinking that we have free will.
I include myself in the above paragraph. You see, we are all asleep pretending that we know what we are doing. But there are many “I’s’ inside of us that are competing for the right to speak through our mouths.
All great teachers want us to wake up and begin to live authentically instead of fearfully and dishonestly.
Mobs are all zombie-like and it is the soul that knows this.
Democracy is of this world, as is fascism and the like.
There are good times and bad on Planet Earth and we are heading for a very bad time. Violence is building up in the name of freedom. How ironic is that and how soul-destroying.
But Vicki will live each day as if she knows what she is doing.
The sun has come up and so it will set.
Everything is cyclical and predestined. As Edgar Cayce said, we have no free will except how to react to what God has ordained.
We are all living the mystery and have yet to figure out how to change into living people instead of machines. May God have mercy on us all.
Vicki Woodyard
Hi Vicki. Is there a possibly a connection between the instincts of animals and the robotic nature of humans? I was watching videos on YT of orphaned wild animals raised by humans. A rescued beaver that had never been in a beaver community on the wild began instinctually trying to build dams indoors. And this got me thing off this post. The robotic nature of humans has a veneer of “free will” but maybe it is just a more complicated form of animal instinct? Any thoughts on this? Thank you, Christian O’Neil
Man cannot do; this is a teaching of the Work. Witnessing our actual state is very hard to do because we are sleeping our lives away in an effort to escape suffering. There is no free will; we behave mechanically; we are pushed and pulled by our own thoughts and emotions all day long. There is a strange thing that when we start to study our machines; we see how awful we are and yet something in us knows that change is far beyond our little egos.
Vernon Howard was teaching what Gurdjieff taught; that man cannot do. He only
thinks he can. Our job is to keep our eyes and ears open, as you say.