Phase 12 - Curriculum for the Study of Energies: An Unordered List

Energies: Everything in existence is held together and functions through the use of energies. From the tiniest atoms to huge galaxies everything runs on energies. Even our feelings and thoughts require energy. Ordinary science hardly makes any study of energies beyond the levels of heat, and the polar energies of electricity, magnetism, and kinetic forces. And yet without understanding different levels of energies and how they work, it's almost impossible to understand what happens in the world, and more importantly, what happens in us.

Working from indications provided by G. I. Gurdjieff, John G. Bennett formulated a 12 level scheme of energies which include the energies which science normally studies, but includes much higher levels of organizing energies that extend into the regions of biology, psychology, consciousness, creativity and beyond. This scheme of energies (shown below) provide a means for understanding and answering many questions about personal and spiritual development that would be difficult or impossible to approach through purely functional descriptions.

It is with this in mind that we once again undertake the study of energies.

Listed below is an unordered, first approximation for a curriculum aimed at understanding energies...

What do we mean by the word “Energy”?

Schemes for classifying energies

Bennett’s divisions of energies and 12 level scheme of energies

Gurdjieff’s scheme of energies

Energies described by science

Transformation of energies: the higher blending with the lower…

Anabolic and catabolic

Conscious and unconscious

Paying the debt of our existence – producing energies for the solar system

Accumulators: Generating and storing energies (psychic batteries)

Laws governing energies

Inner exercises:

Producing,

Transforming,

Blending,

Transubstantiating

and Using Energies

Relative materiality of energies:

Dimensionality in relation to energies

Energies in the different worlds

        The alam-I arvah or the world of energies

Energies used to create different vehicles (bodies)

Thought forms, images and the creation of energetic patterns

So called…“Negative” energy and its transformation

Energy and Will

Additions…

Triadic nature of energies:

quantity, quality and intensity

Energies need an ‘apparatus’

Level of being

Quantum thresholds

States of consciousness, selfhood

Transformation in terms of shocks

Bennett’s sensitive energy screen

Analyzing energies using the pentad