The Energy Factory (1/2)

​

↓
​

​
If the factory is clogged and dirty the energy cannot cycle through -
and without energy properly powering the machine -
I am not online.
​​
​
​
It is all about energy.

​
​
​Gurdjieff talked as though in metaphor about man as an energy factory.

​
Using a metaphor grants one the ability to consider if something might be true, instead of being told it is true and blindly accepting it or unconsciously rejecting it.

​
​
Gurdjieff’s metaphor is in one sense an overcomplicated metaphor, our human system is a very simple machine in one sense - (an input output system) compared to a factory, which can be imagined to be complex.
​

​
The reverse is also true.

​
Gurdjieff’s metaphor of man as a factory is also an oversimplification, because the systems within our system are far more complicated than what one imagines to be a factory.

​
​
While much is questionable -
There is one foundation that can be understood and agreed upon, established as a common ground for understanding.
​

​
Our human vehicle is powered by energy.
​

​
From this basic understanding, a individual comes to understand wholly that the following follow:

• We can take in energy/fuel into our vehicle
• If our vehicle is not properly maintained and regularly serviced, energy will not be able to efficiently flow through the vehicle and we will have serious problems as a result.
  ​

​
What is by far the most important, but which I did not know to be surely true for a long time:

• We must be acclimated to the grade of fuel that we use to power our human machine.
• It takes time to acclimate to finer grades of fuel.
• With finer grades of fuel, we can properly use higher functions of our vehicle.
• The finer the grade of fuel, the more properly serviced and maintained - clean - the vehicle must be.
  ​

​
​Low grade and course, dense fuel can be used to power the basic functions of a poorly maintained vehicle.
​
Meanwhile, if finer refined fuels were used in an attempt to fuel the vehicle, catastrophic damage would occur.
​
The attempt to return to using a denser fuel, when one’s vehicle has already acclimated to a finer fuel would cause catastrophic damage to the system.​
​

​
​As for what the maintaining and servicing of the vehicle involve, they involve our emotional processing and our intellectual processing.
​
We may not give much value to emotions, regarding ‘emotional work’ as simple, yet the emotional system is one of the systems in our vehicle, and, in our present state, is not a ‘self-maintaining system,’ ‘self-servicing system.’
​
Our emotional system, and our intellectual systems do not maintain and service themselves.
​
Only our instinctual and digestive systems and so on are ‘self-maintaining.’
​
​The basic foundation described here:

• We have a human vehicle that uses fuel to power it.
• Our emotional processing must be sufficiently processing..
• Our mental processing must be efficiently processing..

If we are to use finer grades of fuel in the vehicle.

​
It may sound too simple, don’t we already know this?

We say,

“Yes, this is described in this book, or by this teacher..”

Yes, it is simple. If the simple is understood with first hand-knowing, one can properly build upon it.

​
Not to mention, many real world systems convert energy into fuel.
​

​
Short statements that build upon this follow.
I’ve left these out to end this work on a simple note.
​
End of Part I
​

​

With Love,

Tyler Choice

​Articles and Services​

​