The Psych Novelist Jan 1, 2026 According to G I Gurdjieff, true Christianity is not a belief system, a moral identity or a religious label but a rare state of being achieved through conscious inner work. This esoteric Christianity audiobook explores Gurdjieff’s radical view of Christ’s mystical teaching – exposing mechanical faith, emotional religion and intellectual theology as imitations that miss the essence. Drawing from ideas found in In Search of the Miraculous and Views from the Real World this episode challenges both believers and skeptics by presenting Christianity as practical psychology aimed at awakening consciousness transforming will and accessing real love as a cosmic force. If you are ready to question everything you think you know about faith identity and spiritual transformation this video is for you. Topics Covered • Gurdjieff’s definition of a true Christian • What is esoteric Christianity? • Mechanical humanity and the illusion of free will • The concept of multiple I and fragmented personality • The four types of Christianity explained by Gurdjieff • Esoteric Christianity versus exoteric religion • Christ’s teachings as practical psychological methods • Conscious labor and intentional suffering • Inner transformation versus belief based faith • Love as an objective cosmic force • Why true Christians are extremely rare • Esoteric nature of Christianity References Used: Ouspensky, P.D. In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1949. • Chapter 4: Gurdjieff’s extended teaching on Christianity, mechanical man’s inability to “do,” and the distinction between Christianity Numbers 1-4 (pp. 58-76, 103-106) • Direct quote: “First of all it is necessary to understand that a Christian is not a man who calls himself a Christian or whom others call a Christian. A Christian is one who lives in accordance with Christ’s precepts. Such as we ‘are’, we cannot ‘be’ Christians” • Teaching: “Sometimes ‘it loves’ and sometimes ‘it does not love’… suddenly, instead of desiring to be a Christian, a man remembers a very good but very expensive carpet” • Most comprehensive direct record of Gurdjieff’s teaching from 1915-1918 Gurdjieff, G.I. Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973. • Direct quote: “The Institute can help one to be able to be a Christian. Simple! That is all!” • Statement: “Real love is the basis of all, the foundations, the Source. The religions have perverted and deformed love. It was by love that Jesus performed miracles” • Collection of Gurdjieff’s direct talks to students from 1917-1930 • Contains his explicit statements about the Institute’s Christian purpose.

“Life is a sum of all your choices.”

― Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. Wikipedia

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 7, 2026 Andy Hilton is author of Anthropology and mysticism in the making of initiation: A history of discourse and ideas for today. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Perspectives on Commoning: Autonomist Principles and Practices. He discusses the history of anthropological investigations into tribal processes involving rites of passage, liminality, and rebirth. Andy also discusses his own experience of cosmic consciousness while attending a shamanic workshop. This was part of a larger initiatory process lasting nine months. As a consequence Hilton has spent the past thirty years developing his ideas for a sub-discipline called “initiation studies”. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on January 26, 2020)

If we take history in the ordinary way as a series of separate events, we shall not find proofs of esotericism. One thing will follow another, on the surface and without apparent connection. But if we know that things are connected, and look for connections, we shall find them hidden beneath the surface.

Peter Ouspensky

Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky, known in English as P. D. Ouspensky, was a Russian philosopher and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. Wikipedia

Born: March 5, 1878, Moscow, Russia

Died: October 2, 1947 

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I invite you to come to my online SUNDAY TALK, Feb 8 and also Feb 15. My talk will last about 35 minutes. Then we can discuss whatever you’d like!

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TITLE:  “It is time NOW to Connect with our INNATE SOUL”

Heather C. Williams, H.W.,M.High Watch MentorThe Prosperos School of Ontology

Join Heather’s two free Sunday online talksFeb 8 and Feb 15Talks begin at 1:00 pm Central Time and last one hourTechnology bombards us with words, words, words! We can’t fully process, absorb and deal with all the emails, text alerts, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, plus Breaking News!“All of us at one point receive an urgent call from the depth of our souls to remember who we are and why we are here! We are LOVE and we are here to LOVE. We are mind and on the level of mind we are ONE. Everything else is false information.”

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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Poet

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New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 5, 2026 Philosophy Adam Crabtree, RP, is a trainer of psychotherapists and has a private therapy practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, He is author of From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, Trance Zero: Breaking the Spell of Conformity, Evolutionary Love and the Ravages of Greed, and The Land of Hypnogogia. He is also coauthor of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, and he is coeditor of Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality. He proclaims his belief that Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) was the greatest philosopher of all time, because he understood more clearly than anyone else how previous philosophies and institutions undermined human freedom and human possibility. He highlights Nietzsche’s emphasis on the importance of psychological depth. He also reviews various biographical details and compares Nietzsche’s philosophy with that of his contemporary (although they never met) C. S. Peirce. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on August 2, 2020)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 6, 2026 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1990. It will remain public for only one week. Timothy Ferris is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology. Timothy explores modern cosmology through the Big Bang, cosmic expansion, and the observational evidence that supports a universe with a finite origin. He discusses time, space, black holes, and the deep mysteries that arise when relativity and quantum physics approach their limits. Ferris also opens philosophical questions about consciousness, self-awareness, and humanity’s role in an evolving universe. 00:00:01 Introduction 00:02:45 The big bang framework 00:04:29 Expansion of the universe 00:06:17 Cosmic background radiation 00:09:05 Origin of time and space 00:11:07 The mystery of time 00:12:26 Seeing the past of the universe 00:16:04 Black holes and curvature of space 00:19:03 Unifying physics theories 00:28:02 Conclusion