Brain Systems

The original text of Brain Systems as it was written for class use. This paper offers a class room version of excerpts from several Fourth Way writers who contributed to the original discussion of centers accompanied by original teaching material required to complete the concept. Directly cited: Gurdjieff (in Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous), Ouspensky (in The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution) and Speeth (in The Gurdjieff Work.) The paper continues beyond the concept of centers to develop of an entire model of the human brain and to describe additional features required as a “host” for the center activity described in the excerpted material.

This primary text sets out various conceptual propositions for brain function. It establishes an abbreviation system which provides more ready reference to centers. This same abbreviation system, also encompassing other elements of the brain, appears in most other papers in this series.

Overview: Why Study Centers?
Centers: Important New Language for the Five Parts
Speeth: The Gurdjieff Work - A Sample of Other Work on the Fourth Way
Centers and Beelzebub: The View From Outer Space, Man as a Three-Centered Being
False Personality & Other Barnyard Demons - Pests, Bad Habits, Personality and Real Danger
Brains: Taking a Look at What We’ve Got
Interlopers: Brain System “Bad Guys” Make Head Lice Look Like Robin Hood