Welcome to a series of talks about objective consciousness, an objective Universe, and an objective way to awaken, expanding upon the works of George I. Gurdjieff and Russell A. Smith.

In this new series of podcasts, we will present short discussions on various aspects of the Work, and answer questions raised during our weekly Zoom classes, which are available every Saturday, freely for everyone who has either purchased a copy of The Blueprint of Consciousness, or who has attained to the Master and Double or Nothing exercises. Please note that Russell is in full attendance at both of these classes every week to answer any questions and to support your journey.

This is part 2 of a 2 part podcast, and in this final part we describe the history and background of THEDOG, and the reason we created THEDOG Teachings, what it offers, and what this objective way can specifically do for you. As a bonus we give you within the podcast a 10% discount code for the books and audio guide for the remainder of August 2022.

Let’s begin:

THEDOG Teachings started in 2019, and is presented as a website, a series of podcasts, and social media channels, based upon the aim to preserve the discoveries and teachings of Russell A. Smith, and to disseminate the full teaching materials of the school, which were designed for the purpose of helping everyone who finds this way, to objectively and intentionally awaken to a higher state of consciousness.

That is, to put into the hands of as many people as possible, this objective, completely unique, understandable, and infallible method of self-perfecting; an extremely precise and verifiable road map to awaken to the reality of being.

THEDOG Teachings was designed to supply everyone with the supporting material needed for making a journey to objective awakening. We include weekly podcasts, videos, animations, exercises, diagrams, which explain all key concepts of Gurdjieff’s universe, explanations of Gurdjieff’s aphorisms and Russell Smith’s DOGTALES, online courses, and regular weekly Zoom classes on Saturdays, with Russell available to answer any questions, and which is free to anyone who purchases Russell’s book, The Blueprint of Consciousness - An Accelerated Path to Awakening.

The History of THEDOG

THEDOG is an acronym for Theological Harmonistic Exercitations into the Discoveries Of Gurdjieff. It is a school of awakening based in Sangar, Texas, that was founded in 1989 by Russell A. Smith.

In 1980, after years of studying the works of George I. Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way, Russell unexpectedly, and subjectively, “woke up”.

He continued to study the rules and laws of G. I. Gurdjieff’s universe, and uncovered many of Gurdjieff’s “buried dogs.” He ultimately discovered what Gurdjieff wanted us to find – how the Enneagram works, and describes the structure of the universe and the structure of human beings; both in terms of their form and function, and also to map precisely their possibilities for evolution.

What Russell discovered described everything; and, the more he studied, the more connections he was able to verify… until their truth became undeniable. After which, he founded a school, worked with hundreds of students, and captured all that he had discovered in his seminal book Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets. And, in the late 1980’s, after further intense study, he was given an exercise that caused others to unify into a single state, and to experience a higher state of consciousness.

The aim of Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets was to give readers salient information about the structure of the Universe, knowing that – should they ever choose to pursue his discovery, the objective exercise, and the Great Secret and Great Truth, they would already possess the fundamental and necessary knowledge.

Many of his readers did make that choice, which prompted them to contact him and ask if they could come and study with him. When they did, he told them that the journey took ten-days – two days travel – and eight days studying Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets one-on-one with him, and that he only allowed one student at a time. Russell did not do groups. He taught. He did not do motivational lectures that gave people a warm feeling. He gave people something more, and he still does, albeit he has retired now, but is still active in weekly Zoom classes, and in the day to day running of his school. 

For anyone that wants something more, and who are willing to put their nose to the grindstone for eight-days, Russell personally took them on an inner journey and showed them how to awaken… and he did it for free.

In addition to receiving his personal guidance, students watched supporting videos, read supporting literature, calculated supporting structures, and did supporting exercises… journaling their results, which Russell observed and carefully examined.

When he was certain that they understood the structure, he would share with them the objective exercise, and the Great Secret and Great truth, which would cause them to awaken. But, not before that, as he did not want their efforts to fail. That turned out to be a good call, for almost everyone awoke.

After their journey was complete, Russell allowed another enthusiastic reader to come; and, the process was repeated.

Here in Russell’s own words, he describes why he maintained a 1-2-1 teaching, and what the 8 day inner-journey actually entailed.

“Because awakening is so important, and because the journey took around 8 days to complete, I only allowed one student at a time to come and study Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets with me. Wherein, I thoroughly explained to them the laws of world creation and world maintenance and then led them through The Objective Exercise. After which, they awoke.

Here is the crux of the 8 day agenda we followed, and its results.

Chapter 1 - Day One: When we began Chapter 1 of Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets, some were afraid of the math, but by the time they did the homework at the end of Chapter 1, and the first two octave worksheets, and saw that the math was just the proportions of one simple recipe, adjusted to feed varying amounts of people, they confidently said, 'Wow, I only have to know one recipe. Give me another worksheet. This is easy. I can do this.'

Chapter 2 - Day Two: They started to grasp Creation, and when I stretched and rumpled the fabric of the Universe and created the Diatonic Ratios, they began to sense that there was something very objective about this work.

Chapter 3 - Day Three: At the end of Chapter 3, they realized that it just might be possible for them to awaken. After all, it was their right, and they had the necessary parts. As such, they began to do the THEDOG training exercises with great force, so that they would be super prepared for the now perceived real possibility of success.

Chapter 4 - Day Four: Harmonic stability became a reality, and the exquisite math of oscillations and the tRNA molecule set them to shaking. In fact, they often uttered, 'Oh my God, this is incredible.'

Chapter 5 - Day Five: Assisting forces appeared, which further put a nail in their coffin of uncertainty; after which, they started expecting to awaken.

Chapter 6 - Day Six: A matrix of outer octaves unfolded before their eyes, and when it did, everything in the Universe began to make sense, to where they no longer expected to awaken, but started demanding it.

Chapter 7 - Day Seven: Everything that was not covered in the first 6 chapters was finally unveiled in Chapter 7; that is, all the knots were tied and the bows affixed. Then, when they self-discovered the Lines of Supervision in an Enneagram, most began to tremble. They were ready!

After one final night of polishing their centers, the ones that were needed for awakening, we met the next morning around 11 AM. At that time, I explained The Objective Exercise to them in detail. When I did, they saw it, they understood it, and they realized that it was infallible, and as such, they knew that they were going to awaken.

So, I locked the door, disconnected the phone, dimmed the lights, and played some 'I can barely hear it' instrumental, New Age/Zen type music (something, which they could not easily focus on, nor recognize) … and then, I led them through The Objective Exercise, which took us about 15 minutes.

When I did, they awoke.

After which, they sat there silently. Their random thoughts stopped, and they felt the presence of their Steward.

Most were afraid to move or even to open their eyes, as they did not want to do anything that might cause their awakened state to go away.

Fortunately, when it did not, they eventually opened their eyes, looked over at me and smiled; I smiled back.

Then, in silence, they went up to the guest room, and exhausted, usually took a nap.

After their nap, when they realized that their Steward was still present, they found their way back downstairs … grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

We nodded, and they became students of THEDOG.

After which, they usually asked, 'Can you show me how to awaken the Higher Mental Center as well?'

I said, 'I can.' That is, as soon as you memorize 1,001 words of Work memory work!”

Thus, over the next couple of decades, hundreds of people, from all over the world, sojourned to Texas, completed their eight-day journey, and awoke.

Fortunately, many of those eight-day journeys were recorded, and were meticulously constructed into “The Blueprint of Consciousness - An Accelerated Path to Awakening.” A book that could now show everyone – even those who could not come to Texas anymore – how to awaken.

When people started waking up just by studying this book, and performing the objective exercise, people’s awakenings became totally independent of Russell’s personal guidance, which meant that after more than twenty years of teaching, he no longer needed to personally take others on the eight-day journey because, with the book and the supporting website, thedogteachings.com, everyone could now complete the journey on their own. And as such, instead of Russell waking up one person every ten-days, it was now possible to wake up thousands.

How THEDOG Teachings can help you to awaken

Russell A. Smith deciphered Chapter 39 of G. I. Gurdjieff’s masterful tome, All and Everything, where Gurdjieff described how the universe was created through two movements. With that in hand, and with Gurdjieff’s description of the diagram of nutrition, Russell was able to discover the Diatonic Enneagram, and three congruent octaves, which completely explains everything Gurdjieff had alluded to; and, more importantly, explain many other scientific discoveries: From three levels of quarks, to the electrical charges of protons and neutrons, elemental creation, electron shell formation, the Fibonacci sequence, and the evolution of life itself, including tRNA and DNA; and, even the possible conscious evolution of humankind.

It shows intrinsic oscillations, Gurdjieff’s “obligatory gaps,” and most importantly, a way to the source of our being. It also explains how we fell asleep and how we can awaken, by simply understanding the rules and laws that apply to the universe and to ourselves.

Everything Russell taught, over the last 30 years, is now being made available to everyone. That is, how to learn and understand the laws of world-creation and world-maintenance, as originally taught by Gurdjieff, and to undertake an objective exercise that will unify their being and cause them to awaken.

As Russell says, “There is no greater joy in life than to put truth in the hands of those who seek it, and then watch them awaken.”

THEDOG Teachings and The Blueprint of Consciousness now allow the reader to be guided through the inner journey, as if Russell, himself, was personally guiding them, and gives them everything they need to successfully make that journey to awakening.

The Blueprint of Consciousness

The Blueprint of Consciousness - An Accelerated Path to Awakening is a definitive accounting of everything that a human being needs to know in order for them to reach their potential and awaken.

Available as a 520 page high quality hardback, and also as a downloadable PDF, it contains the means to learn the underlying rules and laws of this universe, based upon a Diatonic musical octave, fully symbolized and deconstructed by Gurdjieff’s Enneagram, and ultimately leading to The Objective Exercise, designed to awaken us to our seat of conscience, the Higher Emotional Center, and to bring an impartial observer into our being. This is in effect the first conscious death, which is step one to liberation and freedom from ego. 

This can then lead us to attaining to the Master exercises, designed to awaken to the Higher Mental Center, the seat of Reason and Impartiality, and to the purging of our inexactitudes and years of false beliefs, which have in all likelihood brought all manner of chaos and false steps into our lives.

The Blueprint of Consciousness exquisitely describes a natural and idiomatic structure based upon the laws of seven and three, which demonstrably unifies science, spirituality and religion, and presents a mathematically verifiable connection to quarks, supernovae, suns, planets, DNA, human psychology, and even black holes. This single structure defines not only the cosmological world, but also the quantum world, and psychological worlds of humanity, and could genuinely be described as the unified theory of everything - an objective universe created and maintained from a simple diatonic musical octave.

It is a way to objectively awaken, using knowledge of the laws of world creation and world maintenance, a cleansing of the falsities built up in us from years of subjective living. It develops “Being”, making us primed and ready to open our minds to higher centers – to conscience, reason and impartiality. A state that is the given right of every human being on this planet, if only they knew, and knew how.

It is a complete and objective teaching, and is based upon the transcribed recordings of Russell A. Smith taking students through his first book, Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets as part of an eight-day inner journey of awakening. 

Throughout the time of humanity many people have sought to attain the mysterious state of Enlightenment or Awakening, also known as Self-Consciousness, Objective Consciousness, or Cosmic Consciousness. In pursuit of that aim, various ways have arisen. Some of which have even helped a few people attain it. However, all of those ways were subjective. They applied to only one individual and to their particular circumstances, not to all. If those ways were truly objective, they would have worked for everyone. Unfortunately, every path and every journey was personal and different. Most awakenings just happened. Thus, they were not repeatable. Still, many followed, many tried, and many failed.

But, fortunately, Russell A. Smith discovered an objective way. A way that is the same for everyone. A way that can be repeated.

Russell thoroughly described the intricacies of that structure in his seminal book “Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets.” And while teaching it to others, formulated an eight day inner journey to awakening. He shared that journey with hundreds of people hundreds of times, then captured it in his current work The Blueprint of Consciousness – An Accelerated Path to Awakening, which not only contains the journey to awakening, but also the objective exercise to acquire it. 

Now, for the first time, you can undertake that journey, perform the objective exercise, and experience for yourself the third state of consciousness. You no longer need to follow a person or a guide in order to gain what is rightfully yours. No longer need to spend thousands of dollars and take years and years, on something that is not under your control. Your awakening is now in your own hands, at your own time scale. Your task now is to follow a proven method, which when fully read and applied, will bring you to a state that many have searched for, but seldom have found. It is strongly recommended that, before you attempt The Objective Exercise, you read all chapters of The Blueprint of Consciousness and fully complete the suggested exercises, because the success of the objective exercise is dependent upon you understanding the rules and laws. To assist you in that journey, we have placed all the supporting material you will need under Resources on our website thedogteachings.com.

In conclusion

For someone who is seeking self-perfection, this could be the single most important investment you ever make.

These are not just bold claims, they are open for anyone to prove and verify for themselves. We have simply made it available now to everyone.

Gurdjieff buried this knowledge deeply, and made others work hard to find even just fragments of it. He did not want it to be found superficially, nor have us “wait with our mouths open, waiting for a roast pigeon to fly in”. However, in this century of our existence, we are so steeped in subjective falsity, selfishness, prejudice, unnecessary stresses, and utter feelings of separation from the whole, that what was buried deep has to be brought right to the surface, so that a banquet is now laid out before you. 

This may be the only known objective and repeatable way to awaken. 

All other ways cannot awaken all people, because they have always been subjective; dependent solely on a student following a teacher who found a way that awoke only them. It is impossible to impart a subjective way fully, because no two lives are the same, and thus, no two recipes for awakening are the same.

The best that we can hope for is dissemination of higher world information, in forms of symbolism, metaphor, tales, and parables, and for these to blend into someone’s knowledge, with the commensurate effort in transformation of being and the growing of a Higher Being Body.

These ways were reliant upon hard personal work against false beliefs, false personality, and acquired mechanicality, and additionally, they all required us to acquire something more, to believe in something else.

The world is in such a situation, where falsity has never been so rife and readily available, that this teaching needs to be shared.

Russell has held an octave vibrant for over 30 years, and has repeated over 500 inner journeys with students, with almost all resulting in inviting Steward into the carriage.

The Blueprint of Consciousnesses is a distilled, edited, approved amalgam of the best parts of the best of these journeys. It is objective in its method, because there is no other version, no different way of doing it, and the inner journey itself is locked down at the highest level it can be.

This is Russell’s gift to the world, and enables him to speak to you as he would a student on an inner journey, but at your own pace, and with the highest possible input, spanning worlds 48 to 6, from self-remembering, to purging our falsehoods, and to objective consciousness.

And this month, our gift to you is a ten per cent discount on the price of The Blueprint of Consciousness book and PDF, and also the audio guide of The Objective Exercise. Please use podcast10 (all lower case) as the discount code at store checkout on our website, valid for the remainder of August 2022. There is one code per person per product.

Your personal journey to awakening is now in your hands.

Thank you for listening.

That concludes today’s podcast.

If you too would like to learn how to become objectively conscious, simply visit our website thedogteachings.com. There, you will be able to listen to other talks, obtain diagrams, animations, supporting videos, and much, much more.

But most importantly, you may fulfill your true potential!

In addition, you can also find us on Instagram and Facebook under THEDOG Teachings.

And as a reminder, we have two ZOOM classes every Saturday to assist you; one is for purchasers of Mr. Smith’s book, and the other is for those who have obtained the Master Exercises and the Double or Nothing Exercises. See under Resources/Zoom Classes for more details.

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Goodbye, until next time.