materials and resources—and forfeit our possibility for spiritual self-transformation. To understand what we are up against we must first understand Technology, its essence—what it is in itself. It is not something alien but a part of us. Aristotle defined man as “the rational animal.” Technology is simply our rational part developed to an extraordinary degree. It challenges us to awaken to a new level of ourselves or to suffer the consequences. We must strive to understand the essence of Technology. As it is a part of us, to understand it we must first know our own essence. What are we? Are we bioplasmic machines or not? If we deny this question, then we begin on too high a level; that is, we assume our oneness, that we have free will, an ability to do. We need to know whether or not, and in what way, we are machines. But to know ourselves as machines—what is it that will know it? Computers and robots can never know what they are. Self-consciousness they can never have. Self-consciousness is only possible for a human being. But our consciousness has become so identified with the working of our three brains—intellectual, emotional and instinctive—that it is one with them. If we can rightly learn to observe ourselves impartially we will see that our functioning is that of a machine. And as we suffer this—and what is suffering but our self-image?—our consciousness, that which we truly are and why we are images of God, separates from the functioning of the machine and begins to control it. In that way, we will cease to be a machine. So, in awakening to a true consciousness of self, it is realized that I am both a machine and not a machine. I am is something far greater. Now, the question is how to do this? As with developing a negative image—where is the light? where is the solution? The light and the solution are the seminal, esoteric and sacred teaching that G.I. Gurdjieff brought to the West called the The Fourth Way. The teaching begins by admitting the very