The Old Ways, The New Ways:

In 1966 late in the fall I started attending lectures at a Fourth Way School’s Symposium (The Prosperos’) led by Kenneth Walker (who had been a student of Gurdjieff.)

I was a student of that school for several years until I branched out into Sufism and Gaiian studies. I have though kept in touch with students and teachers at that school ever since, lots of good people, gentle souls. Some I have known from 1967 on.

One of the very interesting things that I heard in a lecture early on, and then later in conversations with a couple of the teachers in the school was that: During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 there was an international effort by various spiritual, metaphysical and occult schools in conjunction with each other to prevent Nuclear War through meditation, prayer, magical acts as well as organizing, speaking to people, letter writing to newspapers and politicians.

This had me considering over time and in my meditations, what were the possibilities of combined work across the spectrum of the various movements in existence today? I know that within that school now, there is an active group working through the use of their various spiritual tools to help change the current situation.

So here are some thoughts. We have horrible situations unfolding, and ongoing in Yemen, Myanmar, Syria, and now the Ukraine to name but a few of the conflict/war zones. We have famine rolling through Africa, Southwest Asia. The world is still in grip of the Covid Pandemic.  We have an ongoing worldwide climate crisis.  It seems overwhelming, yet here we are at a juncture where we have tools to actively organize via social media, email, web pages, talking to family, friends, neighbors the same united spiritual front that in my mind, turned the tide in 1962. We know through studies now via Sheldrake and others that consciousness extends to all existence. By working in our homes, community, and online, we can and will make a difference.

What I Suggest: 

1. Form Affinity Groups. Contact your friends, family, community. DO IT.
2. Develop a Schedule for Group Meditations on Specific Topics, i.e., Ukraine, Afghanistan, Covid, etc.
3. Make it a Weekly Practice, at least, nightly or daily if you can.
4. Broadcast your actions on Social Media. Invite others to join in. Organize!!!
5. Become Active Locally.  This is deeply important.
6. Take Care of Your Loved Ones. Spend Time in Nature, Pray, Meditate, get your hands into the soil. Give thanks for what you have.

The Old Ways, The New Ways – Gwyllm.com

I want to salute the students and teachers at The Prosperos for their Translations Group Work on World Situations.

Bright Blessings,
Gwyllm