This edition of The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution includes a
lecture, not previously published, in which Ouspensky givers some
details of the "School of the Fourth Way," with which he was connected,
and an account of some of its fundamental principles, methods, and
rules.
The psychology Ouspensky sets forth in this introductory lectures has
existed in one form or another for thousands of years and, unlike modern
psychology, studies man from the point of view of what he may become.
Once a man realizes how little control he has over his reactions to
external circumstances and internal stimuli, he may wish to find a way
to becomoe free of this mechanical way of living.
Ouspensky describes how a man must work simultaneously on his knowledge
and his being to find inner unity and why although his development
depends on his own efforts, this is very difficult to achieve without
guidance from a "School."