SPIRITUAL SURVIVAL IN A RADICALLY CHANGING WORLD-TIME

The seventh and final book in William Patrick Patterson's survey of The Fourth Way, Spiritual Survival warns of Technology's challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. Explored in great and original depth is how the seminal teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way - the teaching for our time - offers the esoteric keys and practices to self-awakening in a radically changing, high voltage and mercurial world-time.

Explores the seminal teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way in great and original depth through a detailed introduction, illustrative meetings, and probes and essays of key esoteric ideas and practices of how to self-awaken in this radically changing world-time. In this seventh and final book on Gurdjieff's teaching, William Patrick Patterson warns that unless we learn to control Technology, it will control us. We will lose our spiritual heritage and simply become machine-like worker ants. Patterson holds that Technology is not different from us - it is simply our rational part developed to an extraordinary degree. To understand it, we must first understand ourselves and our potential which is the focus of the teaching. --Arizona Networking News

William Patrick Patterson's books become more profound and exciting as time goes on. Spiritual Survival is one of the best so far, full of wonderful insights. --Colin Wilson, author, War Against Sleep

"I have no doubt that Spiritual Survival will, just as Patterson intended, 'serve as a bridge for a seeker wishing to become a candidate to enter The Fourth Way, an ancient living teaching, the teaching for our time.'" --New Dawn Magazine, September/October 2010