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S7/E51: Martfotai - I Am Both This and That - Holding Two Truths Without Splitting

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In this seventeenth episode of Martfotai, we take the crucial step from seeing through false binaries to living beyond them entirely. Drawing on Gurdjieff's understanding of the reconciling force, ancient wisdom about coincidentia oppositorum, and the physiological recognition that integration creates coherence whilst splitting creates stress, we discover how to embody apparent opposites simultaneously. Through practical integration methods and the recognition that maturity means holding tension rather than resolving it prematurely, this episode guides you from the either/or prison into conscious wholeness. We explore how internal war consumes creative energy, how the capacity to hold multiple truths is natural development, and how the war within ends through recognising that what seemed like opposites were always one movement temporarily forgotten as separate sides.

Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and access extended teachings.

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In this seventeenth episode of Martfotai, we take the crucial step from seeing through false binaries to living beyond them entirely. Drawing on Gurdjieff's understanding of the reconciling force, ancient wisdom about coincidentia oppositorum, and the physiological recognition that integration creates coherence whilst splitting creates stress, we discover how to embody apparent opposites simultaneously. Through practical integration methods and the recognition that maturity means holding tension rather than resolving it prematurely, this episode guides you from the either/or prison into conscious wholeness. We explore how internal war consumes creative energy, how the capacity to hold multiple truths is natural development, and how the war within ends through recognising that what seemed like opposites were always one movement temporarily forgotten as separate sides.

Discover more at martfotai.com - join the weekly newsletter, explore guided practices, and access extended teachings.

  continue reading

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