There is no compulsory, mechanical evolution. Evolution is the result of conscious struggle. Nature does not need this evolution; it does not want it and struggles against it. Evolution can be necessary only to man himself when he realizes his position…3
So even with this apparently simple question regarding an aspect of Nature in ourselves, in relation to Gurdjieff’s thought, we come across much material requiring further chewing. Then, with the realisation of how I misjudged the depth encompassed by this subject, and the fact that I actually “understand,” even mentally, practically nothing after all about this, evokes also a certain emotional state, akin to, or approaching, that vital condition called by Gurdjieff “to realize one’s nothingness.”4 If I can experience this without identification, it is the very place from which an ascending octave can begin…
For the present, simply the bare question remains. Yet, in this very void, it is now possible for something to flow, as it were, with great force. Obstructions to this flow are, relatively, and perhaps only for a very short time to begin with, abolished. It is an opening. And, after all, life and its possibilities come to us from above ISM 47, 57, 218” from Till Siegel Substack, Journal of Gurdjieff Studies, 4-6-26 What is Nature for Gurdjieff?
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