S7/E57: Martfotai - I Am a New Beginning - The Return to Presence as Creative Act
In this twenty-third episode of Martfotai, we explore the new beginning that emerges when recognition stabilises. Drawing on Maurice Nicoll's teaching about Living Time versus passing-time, we discover why spiritual narratives end completely when consciousness stops pretending. The shift from living TOWARD clarity to living FROM it transforms relationships, work, and daily life through creative expression replacing programmed responses. We examine the three natural developmental stages post-Martfotai, how problems become teachers through conscious rather than mechanical suffering, and why the Steward's permanent function creates the gap for genuine choice. Five integration practices support stabilisation whilst common questions address practices, goals, forgetting, and continued development. This recognition is profoundly ordinary because what you sought was never absent, only obscured by seeking itself.Discover more at martfotai.com - subscribe to the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and access extended teachings.
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S7/E56: Martfotai - I Am Martfotai - The Person of Light
In this episode of Martfotai, we arrive at the Person of Light itself. Martfotai consciousness emerges when all fragments integrate, when impartiality becomes lived presence, when the permanent I stabilises through crystallisation. We explore the three-fold presence of wholeness, neutrality, and presence as natural expressions rather than achievements. Through somatic verification in the three centres, we discover how the body knows Martfotai before the mind grasps it. From concrete examples in relationships, parenting, work, and difficulty to the transmission quality that serves others' recognition without teaching, you'll learn how consciousness that knows itself expresses through human form. We examine common obstacles, five integration practices including the monthly Martfotai fast, and why this recognition is profoundly ordinary. This episode reveals what remains when nothing false is left, what you already are when all fragments unify.Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and soon access extended teachings.
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S7/E55: Martfotai - I Am Impartial - Seeing Without Distortion or Preference
In this twenty-first episode of Martfotai, we explore impartiality as the essential foundation without which genuine development cannot occur. Beginning with body-based recognition that partiality lives in your nervous system before reaching thought, we discover the critical distinction between impartiality and indifference, then learn the 1-10 scale practice for immediate state-change. Scale-shifting dissolves the middle-zone trap where ego operates, whilst oscillations teaching reveals destruction and healing as one rhythm. Through Gurdjieff's precise teachings on the three centres and three elements of self-observation, we learn to recognise inherited positions defended as personal truth. Suggestibility versus verification grounds impartiality in objective structure(the periodic table, octave patterns, mathematical ratios) distinguishing truth from belief. We examine individual collision as the friction between self-image and actuality, distinguish mechanical from conscious suffering, and integrate through five practical tools: the scale practice for immediate state-change, body checks three times daily, weekly role-playing that reveals identity's falseness, evening reflection, and the three-day impartial fasting protocol. This episode reveals how clear seeing emerges when the machinery of taking sides is systematically starved, preparing the ground for Martfotai consciousness where wholeness knows itself through human form.Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, sign up for free open classes, and access extended teachings.
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S7/E54: Martfotai - I Am Striving - Integrating the Five Obligolnian Strivings
In this twentieth episode of Martfotai, we explore how pure recognition expresses itself as conscious action through Gurdjieff's Five Obligolnian Strivings. Moving beyond personal development into sacred obligation, we discover the complete octave from sacred embodiment to cosmic service. We examine the missing sixth striving of conscious awareness and the crystallisation of the Steward, which creates the gap between stimulus and response that allows conscious choice rather than mechanical reaction. We learn about conscious labour and intentional suffering, explore how universal laws follow diatonic structure, and see how individual transformation serves collective evolution. This episode reveals how ancient wisdom becomes immediate practice when consciousness knows itself, whilst protecting against spiritual materialism through practical, verifiable results.Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and access extended teachings.
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S7/E53: Martfotai - I Am None of That at All - What Cannot Be Touched by Thought, Label, or Form
In this culminating episode of Martfotai's Great Unweaving arc, we explore the final recognition: "I am none of that at all." Moving beyond every position - including the witness - we discover what operates before operation itself. Through practical exercises like focused gaze work revealing the brain's image construction, soft gaze practices showing underlying movement patterns, biblical narratives read as consciousness maps, and the recognition of the mechanical universe, we uncover what cannot be improved because it's already perfect. This episode reveals how the spiritual journey was consciousness playing at forgetting itself, and how the ultimate recognition is profoundly ordinary - what you've always been beneath every costume of identity.The revolutionary reflection principle shows that green leaves appear green because they reject green light, and similarly, when people show anger, they're reflecting what they cannot use. Like plants needing red and purple light for growth, people need kindness and understanding rather than more of what they're already rejecting.Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and soon access extended teachings.
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