Ted Nottingham has been researching the Perennial Wisdom for decades. He has studied in United States and Europe and been involved in several spiritual practices. The Holy Spirit had him working as a pastor in the Disciples of Christ church, studying G. I. Gurdjieff, living with Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann the Christian mystics who ultimately lead him to the Orthodox path.
Along the way he has created many books and videos that document his path of spiritual study.
This excerpt from an interview with a 4th Way Gurdjieff group gives us a very good view of Nottingham’s outlook.
“Students who reject any relationship between Fourth Way teachings and spiritual wisdom are generally focused on personal power and elitism. That is a dead end as is clearly demonstrated by the state of being of many such persons.
The Work is not for the elite (the word esoteric means inner not secret), but for anyone who has a sincere desire to reach connected with a deeper part of themselves that opens on to encounter with that which is greater than themselves. Emotional healing and purification, self-transcendence,
conscious effort, awakening from sleep are the birthright of all who "hunger and thirst" for Truth and right action in the world.”
conscious effort, awakening from sleep are the birthright of all who "hunger and thirst" for Truth and right action in the world.”
Nottingham gives us a glimpse of how he has put his inner study to practical work in the recently released video Unlocking the Door, which contains the audio portion of a sermon he delivered reveals another side of Nottingham’s powerful grasp of the Scriptures as well as perennialist vision of Christ.
He says that in the Gospel of John “...peace I give you and I send you…” revises The
Great Commission of Matthew to go forth and evangelize . Your personal peace found in an inner relationship with God transforms the world. It is the mystical “peace that no one [intellectually] understands” or which is beyond ordinary comprehension but is obtainable through spiritual work. It is then passed on by breathing or infusing your peace into others thus beginnings of new Evangelism in the end enlarging salvation to include a living illumination.
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