The mechanical mind that thinks only in rigid binaries and stock phrases without fresh understanding—categorizing, labeling, and seeing only dualities.
Back to Glossary
Fourth Way (Gurdjieff)
Formatory Apparatus
Related concepts
black-and-white thinking
either-or
oversimplification
reversed Swords
mental rigidity
judgment without depth
clichés
binary thinking
More in Fourth Way (Gurdjieff)
- A, B, C Influences
- Being-Partkdolg-Duty
- Buffers
- Chief Feature
- Conscious Faith
- Conscious Hope
- Conscious Labor
- Conscious Love
- Considering (External)
- Considering (Internal)
- Endlessness
- Enneagram
- Essence
- Exioëhary
- False Personality
- Fifth Striving
- First Striving
- Five Being-Obligolnian Strivings
- Food for the Moon
- Fourth Striving
- Fourth Way
- Gurdjieff Movements
- Hanbledzoin
- Helkdonis
- Heptaparaparshinokh (Law of Seven)
- Higher Emotional Center
- Higher Intellectual Center
- Holy Planet Purgatory
- Hydrogens
- Identification
- Imagination
- Intentional Suffering
- Irankipaekh
- Kesdjan Body
- Knowledge and Being
- Kundabuffer
- Law of Accident
- Magnetic Center
- Mechanicalness
- Merciless Heropass (Time)
- Multiple I's
- Negative Emotions
- Objective Art
- Personality
- Ray of Creation
- Real I
- Remorse of Conscience
- Sacred Being-Impulses
- Second Striving
- Self-Calming
- Self-Observation
- Self-Remembering
- Shocks
- The Absolute
- The Work
- Third Striving
- Three Lines of Work
- Triamazikamno (Law of Three)
- Trogoautoegocrat
- Vanity
- Waking Sleep
- Will (Real Will)