Consciousness Ascending

CA provides the student with opportunities to fully integrate the knowledge from the first two years of the School of Conscious Living and turn it into wisdom that informs every waking moment of life. The levels of the Enneagram and the Enneagram of Process are the primary methods for diving even deeper into habits, patterns and motivations that continuously pull us back into the “stupor” of sleep (type).

Gurdjieff's basic teaching is that human life is lived in waking sleep. Transcendence of the sleeping state requires a specific inner work, which is practiced individually and in the midst of life with others. This leads to otherwise inaccessible levels of vitality and awareness.

The Work of Gurdjieff is an oral tradition. The understanding of this work can only be received by direct contact between teacher and pupil, and by the work of pupils together in organized community. Under conditions in an atmosphere of deep trust that can exist in such a group, people working together learn to face their own inner reactivity and confusion. Working in this way, conscience is awakened along with consciousness and sensation. Gurdjieff taught that Conscience, Consciousness, and Sensation form the tripod upon which an integrated development of human potential must be based.

CA teachers, Dr. Deborah Ooten, Ron Esposito and Beth O'Hara, work within a framework that challenges the beliefs, values, and motivations that keep type in place. We use Gurdjieff’s teachings to guide us in the process of our conscious journey. The Three Centers are more fully explored and engaged in new and powerful ways.

The work is difficult, fun, powerful and revealing! There are required readings, dyadic presentations, experiences and process of our daily living!

CA weekend seminars are held quarterly, from Friday evening to Sunday evening, with monthly meetings held in the months between.  The seminars consist of lectures and deep experiential work.

To sign up for the School of Conscious Living or to learn more about the program in Cincinnati, call Dr. Deborah Ooten for an interview at 513-621-3600 or 513-543-3633, email her at Consciousliving.center@fuse.net.