Electra

this is a skill issue btw, you can teach yourself to sleep on command

At a formal gathering, a man asked his friend, a well-known novelist, whether she had heard of Gurdjieff. She hadn’t. Gurdjieff caught her eye from across the room and began breathing in a deliberate, particular rhythm, which the man recognized as a technique learned in the East. Within moments she went pale and seemed about to faint, which surprised him because she was not a nervous person. When she recovered, she whispered that Gurdjieff was uncanny. Laughing a little at herself, she said his look had made her feel as if she’d been struck straight through her sexual centre, and she called the experience “beastly.” To put it bluntly, she had been brought to orgasm by Gurdjieff. Later, retelling the story to someone about to meet Gurdjieff, the man half-jokingly warned him to be careful, since Gurdjieff had strange powers he had evidently mastered in Tibet.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero. This kind of boldness does not consist in defying the natural order of things and in crudely offending the laws of probability. It is rather a matter of energetically supporting that higher form of analysis by which genius arrives at a decision: rapid, only partly conscious weighing of the possibilities. Boldness can lend wings to intellect and insight, the stronger the wings then, the greater the heights, the wider the view, and the better the results, though a greater prize, of course, involves greater risks. The average man, not to speak of a hesitant or weak one, may in an imaginary situation, in the peace of his room far removed from danger and responsibility, arrive at the right answer-that is, as far as this is possible without exposure to reality. But surrounded on every side by danger and responsibility he will lose perspective. Even if this is provided by others, he will lose his powers of decision, for here no one else can help him. — Carl von Clausewitz.

An ancient saying is, “The authentic man is one whom the sunrise never finds where the sunset leaves him.” He is always on the move. He is a flow. He is not a dirty pond going nowhere. But the whole training of our minds is such that we are made afraid of insecurity, and our whole life we are trying for safety. Financially, politically, religiously, in every dimension we want to be secure. But security means death, a living death. It means tomorrow will simply be a repetition of today, and today is a repetition of yesterday. Are you living? Is there a dance in your life? Are you moving, growing, risking, taking the challenges of dangerous paths? In the acceptance of danger, in the acceptance that anything can happen at any moment, life comes to its best, to its fullest. Osho

Right now Gurdjieff is spreading faster than he ever has, and it’s coming from Twitter anons, who would have guessed it

Gurdjieff gathered a room full of respectable, sophisticated New York writers and journalists , people who saw themselves as refined, intelligent, in control of themselves. He deliberately shifted his own energy and behavior from gracious host to something primal and sexually charged (a “satyr”). Through that shift, he stirred up the sexual impulses in the room until these dignified guests started losing their composure and acting on those urges , the beginnings of an orgy.

We’ve officially reached the point where people are using the teachings of Gurdjieff and Carl Jung to become irresistible to women

If a friend of yours becomes obese, your own chances of becoming obese go up by 57%, and among adult siblings, if one becomes obese, the other’s go up by 40%, and if one spouse becomes obese, the other’s goes up by 37%, so yeah, the people around you are rubbing off on you whether you like it or not.

People dismiss the supernatural because the thought that there’s more going on than they can see unsettles them, but there’s far more evidence for it than they care to admit.

Enlightenment

The thing about psychedelics is nobody thinks they’ll be the one losing their mind