The Fourth Way is an approach to enlightenment developed by George Gurdjieff over years of travel in the East, harmonizing what he saw as three established traditional “ways” or “schools”: those of the body, the emotions, and the mind, or of Fakirs (Sufis), Monks and Yogis, respectively. Gurdjieff taught that man must, while incarnate, create a soul whose substance could withstand the shock of death. More from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.