E61 You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Fourth Way With Stuart Goodnick & Robert Schmidt
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Episode Summary |
Most of us don’t realize how identified we are with the voice in our heads — until we start paying attention.
In this episode of The Intuition Incubator, I sit down with Rob Schmidt and Stuart Goodnick, longtime Fourth Way practitioners and co-founders of the Tai-Yu Meditation Center, to talk about what it actually means to wake up from automatic living. We explore self-observation, presence, and the subtle ways the mind keeps us reacting instead of choosing.
This conversation moves into how projection shapes our relationships, why real listening is rare, and how conversation itself can become a spiritual practice. Rob and Stuart share decades of lived experience from the Fourth Way tradition of Gurdjieff, offering insight into intuition, executive presence, and what becomes possible when we stop believing every thought we have.
Chapters |
00:00 Introduction to Tai-Yu Meditation and Co-Meditation
06:17 Understanding the Fourth Way Tradition
11:48 The Challenge of Self-Observation and Self-Remembering
16:44 The Role of Conscious Suffering in Personal Growth
22:00 Identifications and Their Impact on Relationships
33:37 The Purpose of Self-Observation
39:19 Identifications and Their Impact
41:11 The Practice of Co-Meditation
43:58 Presence in Communication
48:37 Intuition and Its Development
52:03 Finding Meaning in Life
58:09 You Are Not Your Thoughts
Guest Resources |
https://mysticalpositivist.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sgoodnick
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