About: Spinoza and Gurdjieff

My name is Lewis Almeida, I live in Santa Monica, California.

My passion?  Working as a mentor, coach, teacher and student.  I love to learn and explain Gurdjieff’s and Spinoza’s ideas to individuals who are interested.  Gurdjieff explains that man is asleep; in other words, our true spiritual intelligence is asleep.  We live a life as if we were automatons, robotic machines. Everything we do is automatic; we really don’t have to think. Once we learn something, it is stored in our brain, the memory bank. Fortunately, Spinoza has a method of awakening this intelligence, there is a great difference between our memory and our true intelligence. Our brain is a storehouse of memory.  It regulates all the dynamic systems of the body, such as: the immune system, the vascular system, muscular system, the blood system, etc.  However, the mind is an intelligent thinking thing. It is not a physical object.

What are the causes of our pain and suffering?  By the improvement of our understanding, examining how the emotions operate in us, reflecting on the effects of them, will begin to free us. Realizing that we live from the laws of self-preservation and the law of necessity.  Spinoza explains that the mind is in certain cases active and in certain cases passive. When the mind is passive, we are living from our ego-personality.  The ego depends on memory and it lives by the lowest level of knowledge, which is hearsay and experience; expressing fragmentary information.

The question is, how do we wake up?  Being involved in a group may help, by yourself, it is so easy to procrastinate, to lie to ourselves, and we resist change.  We must have a strong desire for the unusual, wanting a purpose, wanting something meaningful in your life. Through intuition and reason, we realize the power of Spinoza’s and Gurdjieff’s knowledge, our desire may be stimulated in the possibility of learning how to generate a deeper effort to understand.

Fortunately, Spinoza’s Ethics points out a direction and a method to “Improve Our Understanding,” reason gives us the power to apply this new effort and directs us to follow a way to reach a higher level of self-preservation and being.

This work can be life transforming once you learn the language.   You may experience a new aliveness, a new sense of self, coming to self-approval; happiness and fulfillment may follow.

If you decide to take the next step. Just send me an email. It is not necessary to know Gurdjieff or Spinoza.

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