Using Theater The great advantage of theater is that it presses knowledge into our entire being. Unlike academic study, which mostly engages our mental function, enactment must involve our emotional and physical functions as well. It is a powerful tool for...
Playing a Role “Play a role in the exterior… Say ‘Good morning’ as you always say good morning. But at the same time labor to keep up with the work we’re doing here internally… Do everything exactly as you are accustomed to doing, but play a role, without...
Breaking the Glass Exercise The emotional center distorts our perception of the world by placing ourselves at its center. Misled by this bias, we take everything personally and experience feelings about situations that need not stimulate any feelings whatsoever…...
Seekers versus Practitioners A person in search of self-knowledge is called a Seeker. A seeker who puts self-knowledge into practice is called a Practitioner. Most seekers are reluctant to adopt a definite and grounded approach to their search, which means they...
The Importance of Being Specific A young woman in her early twenties had recently begun working in a kindergarten and was about to start the last and busiest week of her school year… A young woman in her early twenties had recently begun working in a...
A Loss of Understanding It is in the nature of group work that the loss of understanding in any one of its members impacts the rest, especially since we have shared with them our intimate observations and challenges… A young man in his twenties had recently...
Freedom from Time One of Darsha’s routine checkups alarmed her doctors. Her vital signs were more abnormal than expected. She was rushed through a series of more thorough tests and these showed even more concerning results. After consulting specialists in the field,...
This World is a Bridge Last week, twenty six BePeriod students gathered in Northern Italy to study Esoteric Christianity. Traces of this ancient teaching can still be found in the mosaic decorations of the churches of Ravenna. But these mosaics were never meant to be...
Can Drugs Help in this Work? A practitioner once shared with me his experience of taking Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic traditionally used by Indigenous communities in South America for spiritual and healing purposes… A practitioner once shared with me his...
Notes from a Meeting in Mexico City As the afternoon progressed, any initial hesitancy disappeared and the readers became more emotionally engaged… we were finally rewarded with understanding. Last weekend, I gathered together a group of readers from this...
Our Journey and Our Time In this work, we run a marathon for ourselves against ourselves. As we persist, the work penetrates us more and more deeply until it merges with our fate. When it does, it holds a mysterious lesson custom tailored exclusively for us…...
Our Opponent Keeps Up With Us Consider the subject of your daydreams. Any moment you leave your mind unattended, where does it choose to wander? Heading home after this gathering, will my mind start turning over someone else’s problems? I once attended a gathering...
My First Encounter with Self-Remembering In my case, bumping into the idea of self-remembering was like bumping into an old friend with whom one had lost contact for decades… In my case, bumping into the idea of self-remembering was like bumping into an old...
The End of Form How comforting it is to know our name first thing when we wake up each morning, to know with certainty the identities of those around us, to know the date, month, and year, and know our apartment number, the street, city, and country where we...
We crossed the bridge over the fortifying moat and arrived at the outer wall of Angkor Wat. At the center of the wall, an entry gate opened onto an enclosure of some 200 acres. The temple itself with its five mountain peaks stood afar off, beyond an expanse of land...
This teaching cannot take root in a classroom any more than farming can be mastered without stepping into a field. Its practice brings realizations that become part of our understanding. And when several practitioners work together, their pooled experiences and...
BePeriod was established in 2016. In the previous year, an introductory video: Paving the Fourth Way into the 21st Century, was published on YouTube followed by a series of 20 tutorials, the last of which was published in January 2016. As these videos were coming out,...
If our progression in this work were linear, then every day would find us a little further along the path of self-knowledge than the day before. What we understood yesterday would be reliably ours and we would never fall back by forgetting our verifications. Each day...
