Can the Esoteric Christianity of the Fourth Way be orally transmitted through the Internet?

We live in a world of distance—distance from nature, from one another, from the body, from the sacred. And yet, despite this fragmentation, there are moments—subtle, uncanny—when something real passes through.

A phrase read on a screen suddenly pierces the soul.

A face on a livestream transmits something more than information.

A silent presence lingers long after the Zoom call ends.

Can this be called transmission?

And if so, can the esoteric Christianity of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way—an oral and embodied tradition—be authentically transmitted through the digital realm?

What is Oral Transmission?

In the Fourth Way, oral transmission is not merely verbal instruction. It is a vibrational event and process—a resonance that moves from one embodied soul to another. The teaching is not simply taught; it is imparted, carried on waves of tone, rhythm, presence, and being.

As Gurdjieff insisted, real teaching is always experiential and vibrational, not merely conceptual. Words carry power only when they are charged with sufficient quality of being-energy.

This is the essence of oral transmission. It is not just what is said, but what passes through it.

But What if the medium is electromagnetic?

We are conditioned to believe that spiritual presence requires physical proximity. But must this always be the case?

What if the electromagnetic medium of the internet—this vast field of wireless transmission and invisible waves—could itself become a substrate for non-local "Being" communication?

Dr. Robert Becker, a pioneer in bioelectromagnetics, demonstrated that human healing and consciousness are, at some level, fundamentally connected to electrical processes (Becker, The Body Electric, 1985). Contemporary biophysicists like James Oschman and Rupert Sheldrake have proposed that human beings are embedded in—and communicate through some kind of morphogenetic field.

And Gurdjieff spoke often of the law of vibrations, of radiations and emanations of being on a spectrum of energies, and of the body as an instrument capable of higher energetic receptivity.

In this light, we may begin to consider that:

The internet is not just a technological tool, but a field of subtle interaction—a kind of etheric substrate through which spiritual energies, under certain conditions, can be conveyed.

This is not metaphor. It is a logical consequence of the characteristics of the medium of "light" (electromagnetism) grounded in both esotericism and physics.

Soul transmission at a distance?

In this conext, real soul-to-soul (being-to-being) communication does not depend on physical space, but on attunement of frequencies.

If the heart is open, the attention anchored, the body full of presence, and the intention pure, it is possible for participants to transmit something of their inner state through voice, gaze, or silence—irrespective of spatial or temporal distance.

Such transmission would be akin to what ancient Christians called remote intercession, or what mystics describe as communion in the Spirit. In modern terms, it may resemble a non-local quantum entanglement field.

To be clear: the internet is not the source of this transmission. But it may be a carrier wave—an electromagnetic highway or network of invisible light through which the energy of real presence, of being may be conveyed.

A new sacramental medium?

This reframes our digital environment. What if the internet is not merely a secular tool of distraction, but a medium awaiting consecration?

This would require a new asceticism—a technological hesychasm—where we approach digital spaces not with passivity or addiction, but with the same inner vigilance and sacredness that monastics once brought to their caves. When that happens, the computer screen becomes a threshold. The voice becomes a vessel. And the “meeting” becomes an event of Being-exchange.

This is not theory. It is already happening.

In my own work—on this site, through video, podcast, Zoom meetings and text—I have witnessed people undergo real inner shifts, deep recollections, and awakening shocks through mediated encounters. Not because of me or them. But because something can pass between us, when conditions are right, through all who participate.

The Fourth Way in a digital world

No digital medium can fully replace the embodiment, direct relationship, or the catalytic presence of others—but it seems that the digital medium can allow a bridge, an extension, a non-local conduit to expand the reach of being and other influences needed for individual and collective transformation.

Ultimately, the Fourth Way is a path of terrestrial incarnation: engagement with body, breath, sensation, and the necessary friction of conscious labours and intentional suffering to name a few. And transmission is never complete until it is received in the body, metabolized, and made flesh, irrespective of digital medium or physical proximity.

We stand at the threshold of a new epoch. The internet is a recent phenomenon in the evolutionary story of our species, and we have scarcely begun to comprehend its spiritual implications. To dismiss it as mere cables and code is as reductive as viewing the human being as nothing more than atoms in motion. A much deeper current runs beneath the surface—if one is prepared to look and work.