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S2E16 S02/E16: “Vanity” - The Hunger for Recognition
This episode examines vanity as the demand that the self-image be confirmed by others: a continuous background hunger running beneath almost every conversation, every piece of work, every opinion…
S2E15 S02/E15: “Jealousy” - When Identity Feels Threatened
This episode examines jealousy as an identity threat. Good news arrived about someone you know. Half an hour later, something else was running. Jealousy fires when comparison returns a result the…
S2E14 S02/E14: “Comparison” - The Measurement Engine
This episode examines comparison: the automatic measuring function that returns a relative position before genuine contact with any person or situation has been made. The inner state drops when…
S2E13 S02/E13: “Internal Considering” - What About Me?
This episode examines internal considering: the automatic adjustment of the inner state according to approval and disapproval signals in every exchange. The compliment lands and something lifts. The…
S2E12 S02/E12: "Negative Emotion" - The Greatest Luxury
This episode examines negative emotion as a manufactured process sustained through thought and identification. Why do certain thoughts replay for hours after the event is over?Why does irritation…
S2E11 S02/E11: "Identification" - Becoming One with What You Observe
This episode is the foundation for ten episodes on how emotional patterns operate. Identification, the condition in which the feeling of "I" merges with a state and no inner position remains, is the…
S2E10 S02/E10: "Doubt as Hygiene" - Believe Nothing Until Verified
In this episode of Martfotai, something held as known is examined. It arrived from somewhere, settled, and is now retrieved as personal conviction. Ask when it was last verified through direct…
S2E9 S02/E09: "Formatory Thinking" - The Binary Mind
In this episode of Martfotai, drawing on Fourth Way teaching, we examine the formatory apparatus: the mechanical relay that sits between every impression and response, retrieving stored labels rather…
S2E8 S02/E08: “Judgment” - The Evaluating Machine
In this episode of Martfotai, we examine the evaluating machine: the formatory apparatus producing continuous verdicts on every incoming impression at a speed that precedes any genuine examination.…
S2E7 S02/E07: "False Knowledge" - Borrowed, Believed, and Called Your Own
Open live session this Sunday. Experience the work directly at martfotai.com/classes.In this episode of Martfotai, we examine false knowledge: the borrowed, unverified content that most people carry…
S2E6 S02/E06: “The Narrator” - Internal Speech as Identity Glue
In this episode of Martfotai, drawing on Fourth Way teachings, we examine the narrator: the mechanical inner commentary producing a continuous first-person account of who you are and what is…
S2E5 S02/E05: “The Inner Cinema” - Imagination as Anxiety Engine
In this episode of Martfotai, we examine the continuous internal film running throughout the waking day. The anxiety before a conversation that hasn't happened. The replaying of an exchange that…
S2E4 S02/E04: “Lying” - The Deception We Cannot See
In this episode of Martfotai, drawing on the teachings of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Nicoll, and Jeanne de Salzmann, we examine mechanical lying: the automatic deception that runs beneath any intention to…
S2E3 S02/E03: "Buffers Dissolving" - When Contradictions Meet
In this episode of Martfotai, we examine buffers: the psychic formations Gurdjieff identified as shock absorbers between incompatible truths about the same person. Drawing on Ouspensky and Maurice…
S2E2 S02/E02: "Conscious Friction" - The Fire That Purifies
When a reaction arises, three things can happen. In this Gurdjieff-based Fourth Way episode, we explore the third. Non-expression holds the impulse fully within awareness, neither acted out nor…
S2E1 S02/E01: "Purgatory" - The Gap Between Seeing and Living
In this opening episode of Martfotai Season Two, we explore purgatory: the condition that arises when you see your patterns clearly but cannot yet stop them. Drawing on Gurdjieff's two rivers and the…
S1E30 S01/E30: "I Am My Path" - The Journey That Was Never a Journey
The final episode of Martfotai Season One completes the octave: you are the path itself. Drawing from Gurdjieff's teaching that all life is one movement, we discover walking walks itself, living…
S1E29 S01/E29: "I Am Nothing" – The Disappearance of Even the Witness
This penultimate episode in the "I Am" arc we explore the fourth Post Martfotai discipline. This teaching invites a direct recognition of the absence of a separate self. The familiar sense of a…
S1E28 S01/E28: "I Am Everything" - Union with All That Is
This episode explores the third Post-Martfotai discipline, guiding you through practices that soften the boundary between perceiver and perceived. Through the breathing bridge, conscious I Am work,…
S1E27 S01/E27: "I Am Looking" - Seeing Without Projection
In this episode of Martfotai, we explore looking as the second Post-Martfotai discipline. Drawing from Gurdjieff's teachings on conscious perception and Russell A. Smith's work on the centres, we…
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