A
Puzzle No More
Called
to a path that’s next to impossible to leave
when
it can do no more for soul, like Gurdjieff’s
teaching
of “work on oneself” that he called
by
various names—the Fourth Way, the Work,
the
System, the “way of the sly man,” and “esoteric
Christianity,”
or the pilfered age-old spiritual
teachings
of “soul travel” with its guiding presence
of
an “Inner Master,” or the comprehensively
brilliant
secular way of “shadow work” and Jungian
“individuation,”
it puzzled me why; but one day
it
dawned on me that fear of change keeps soul there,
and
it’s a puzzle no more why such great teachers
like
Gurdjieff and Jung have this tenacious hold
on
soul that’s crying in silence to be set free
from
its waning, comforting security.
Friday,
February 2, 2024
Georgian
Bay, Ontario
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