MEETING & DISCUSSION
Development of Consciousness (Mind, Body, & Feeling)
Tuesday, March 1st, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

By the term consciousness Gurdjieff understood something far more than mental awareness and functioning.  According to him, the capacity for consciousness requires a harmonious blending of the distinctive energies of mind, feeling, and body, and it is this alone that can allow the action within man of higher influences.

MEETING & DISCUSSION
Development of Consciousness (cont'd)
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

MEETING & DISCUSSION
Development of Consciousness
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

 “Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.”

MEETING & DISCUSSION
Self Knowledge and the Wish for Being, (cont'd)
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.'”

MEETING & DISCUSSION
Self Knowledge and the Wish for Being
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

MEETING & DISCUSSION 
The Two Rivers of Life
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

"Strong desire and long preparation are necessary. You will have to live through being identified with all the attractions in the first river. You must die to this river. All religions speak about this death: 'Unless you die, you cannot be born again.'”

MEETING & DISCUSSION
Sleep and Awakening
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty
2nd Floor Meeting Room
130 Whitfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

"A person who sleeps cannot 'do.' With him everything is done in sleep.  Sleep is understood here not in the literal sense of organic sleep, but in the sense of a state of associative existence.  First of all, we must awake..."