Deeper Man (Collected works of J.G. Bennett Book 41)

Creative energy is released in the transformation of our consciousness.

What we call the ‘transformation of being’ is raising the level at which energy can be concentrated, so that experiences that at present are impossible become possible, and powers which cannot now be exercised become available to the will.

For example, we can think of our body and the way in which it is moving or feel the thoughts that are coursing through our minds. All this is just the observation by one center of the functioning of another center. In it we do not see ourselves; it is the parts of ourselves that are seeing each other. Real self-observation requires what is called t

Our role in the world is connected with the conscious transformation of energies.

When consciousness is in us, we see that our ordinary state of awareness is like sleep, or like ‘flatland’. We see that in this ordinary state we believe ourselves to be some being that is there, whereas in reality there is no such being. What is revealed is not a being but the image of a being.

There is a meaning in the words ‘individual will’, and the transformation of man is toward his individuality. Man as a ‘being who can do’ can play a very important role in the cosmos. Gurdjieff says that such relatively liberated beings are necessary because they are able to help the Creator in the governing of the ‘expanding world’. Thus it is pro

That is why the act of voluntary attention, which awakens consciousness, is essentially creative.

The positive emotions are not reactions, but something evoked in our consciousness by the creative energy.

One of the most striking effects of consciousness in us is that kind of experience in which we are aware that as we look at something, we are being seen.