The Work

The esoteric Work of Gurdjieff is hidden from the masses. It cannot be otherwise. I found it because my mother had found it. I seized on her books with an unbridled hunger, which continues to this day. Every essay I ever wrote came from Work energy arising within me.

Why is it hidden? Because, as Jesus said, it would be trampled. You cannot offer it to anyone who does not want it. Think “pearls before swine,” and you will understand.

The New Testament is esoteric spirituality if it is read consciously and not mechanically.

Of course the truth arose in Buddha and other eastern teachers.

It is a tiny trickle you can only absorb one breath at a time. It takes patience and fortitude to come to know yourself as the Self. And we quickly forget that we know.

Vernon Howard was teaching the truth when I studied him a long time ago. He was a severe
teacher and that never bothered me. I was that hungry.

After his death he came to me in a dream and said, “Don’t be so accommodating. Act a little tough.” And in the dream we were walking in Vinings, a nearby community from where I live. And I got the implication there, because Jesus said that He was the true vine. And so I pass on what I have garnered over the decades.

Most people are not hungry enough for truth; they are content with the surface and not the depths. It has ever been thus.

Vicki Woodyard