Dissociative Mysticism and the Performance of the Self: A Psychological Analysis of R.’s Writings in Light of Fourth Way Indoctrination
Introduction
In reviewing the three texts authored by R. (all three are reproduced below after this essay)—an individual whose language, posture, and rhetorical devices present themselves as steeped in esotericism and divine intimacy—we encounter a striking psychological landscape. Beneath the elevated diction and mystified prose lies a dissociative structure of personality that, rather than emerging from authentic gnosis, appears to be the product of spiritual bypassing and narcissistic defense. More critically, the thematic and terminological echoes of the Fourth Way—the esoteric school developed by G.I. Gurdjieff (d. 1949 CE)—suggest that her dissociative mysticism may have been reinforced, if not outright induced, by uncritical absorption of Fourth Way cosmology and practice.
This analysis will argue that R.’s writings display a pattern consistent with dissociative personality traits, marked by spiritualized identity fragmentation, idealized grandiosity, and splitting between self and other, all masked under a rhetoric of divine love, ‘unknowing’, and esoteric authority. The teachings of the Fourth Way, especially when misunderstood or weaponized, offer precisely the kind of metaphysical architecture that enables such a split self to flourish unchecked.
Language as Disassociation: Fragmentation of Self and Thought
Across all three writings, R.s syntax is elliptical, non-linear, and associative rather than logical. Her first piece spirals through abstractions:
What does become in the making of
overcoming your looking here?
“Unknowing a prerequisite.
Her language is not poetic—it is dissociative. The sentence structures often fail to resolve, leaving subjects, objects, or causal chains unanchored. This signals not only a resistance to rationality but a psychological distancing from discernible identity or continuity of thought.
The final excerpt especially demonstrates this pattern:
Counsel your soul by way of virtue towards purification of such a such ness of that ever present nagging feeling of deceit called knowing.
This lexical construction is a linguistic ouroboros—a phrase whose referent collapses into its own semantic void. Such formulations are not accidental. They serve the psychic function of displacing affect and disowning cognitive responsibility. This is consistent with dissociative states, where coherent internal narratives are avoided because they threaten a fragile, split self.
The Grandiose Mystic: Spiritual Narcissism as False Cohesion
R. consistently speaks from an elevated perch: exhorting others to love, to bow, to remember, to “choose Union,” while rarely implicating herself in the same labor. She proclaims:
You fool, you have nothing except the making of kneading this bread. Work for Union or Die back to hypocrisy.
This didactic, commanding tone reflects a personality structure that leans toward spiritual narcissism—the inflation of self-worth through the appropriation of spiritual language. But this narcissism, rather than being egocentric in the traditional sense, is compensatory: a shield constructed around a dissociative void. The ‘sage’ or ‘seer’ persona offers false unity to a fragmented internal system.
Moreover, the repetition of mantras like ‘Ask how to love. Over and over and over again’ and ‘Thank the hands of the man who makes simple food’ presents ritualistic language as a stand-in for relational depth. In doing so, R. bypasses the vulnerability of real emotional connection in favor of affective control—hallmarks of both narcissistic trauma response and dissociative distancing.
Fourth Way Influence: Internal Division as Metaphysical Mandate
R.’s second piece references the Fourth Way directly:
This is why the education of the ‘fourth way’ matters and must bring itself to stretch people further. Underground fourth way secrecy existed to protect the infant soul…
The Fourth Way posits that the human being is fundamentally asleep and that self-remembering, inner observation, and intentional suffering are necessary to awaken the real ‘I.’ Gurdjieff taught that the human has no single unified self, but is made of many ‘I’s’, which must be brought under control through effort and friction.
In the wrong hands—or in psychologically vulnerable individuals—this teaching can foster dissociative fragmentation under the illusion of spiritual awakening. R.’s usage of Fourth Way jargon suggests she has adopted the language of self-observation and inner work without achieving actual unification. Instead, she uses these terms to justify a split psyche, wherein parts of the self are disowned, shamed, or elevated selectively based on a self-authored spiritual hierarchy.
This is most clearly illustrated in her division between ‘clay’ and ‘spirit’, ‘consumers’ and ‘knowers’, or ‘fools’ and ‘Union-workers’. These dualisms reproduce Fourth Way cosmology but degenerate into narcissistic moralism rather than conscious integration.
Knowing as Deceit: Epistemophobia and Control
One of the most telling lines in her third text is:
...the ever present nagging feeling of deceit called knowing.
This marks a culmination of R.’s epistemological stance: to know is to deceive. Such anti-cognitive absolutism is not the fruit of paradox or mysticism—it is the defense mechanism of someone who cannot tolerate being known, questioned, or seen. By naming ‘knowing’ as deception, Ronia immunizes herself from critique, relational accountability, and reality testing.
This is precisely how dissociative personalities protect their internal constructs: by redefining reality as inherently unreliable, and intuition or ‘inner feeling’ as the only trustworthy compass. It is a flight into spiritual solipsism.
The Dissociative Guru Complex: Authority without Integration
The structure that emerges in all three writings is consistent with a guru complex rooted not in power-seeking per se, but in identity fragmentation. R. uses:
- spiritual authority to stabilize a disorganized self,
- rhetorical dominance to suppress internal confusion,
- and mystical abstractions to render herself invulnerable.
But her cosmology has no anchor. Her spiritual system is circular, empty of genuine gnosis, and devoid of mutuality. The call to ‘love God unknowable’, ‘rub clay and spirit together,’ and ‘wait inside the bones’ are poetic shells of metaphysical content—beautiful to the eye but vacant within.
The Fourth Way, when engaged without firm ethical grounding or psychospiritual integration, legitimizes this behavior. It teaches one to observe, but not to relate. It promotes fragmentation before integration. For someone like R., it offered the perfect scaffolding for dissociation to masquerade as mystical authority.
Conclusion
R.’s writings—when read critically and together—reveal a clear pattern of spiritualized dissociation: the fragmentation of self into stylized spiritual masks, the avoidance of accountability through rhetorical mystification, and the projection of emotional wounds onto metaphysical dualisms. Her repeated appeals to ‘Fourth Way’ principles suggest a misappropriation of Gurdjieffian teaching, wherein the esoteric language of awakening has become a cover for narcissistic inflation and psychic disintegration.
Rather than leading toward higher being, R.’s mysticism functions as a theater of control, a solipsistic liturgy wherein the other is always the one to kneel, and she the high priestess of an unnamed god who demands unknowing as obedience. What emerges is not enlightenment, but a dissociative performance of divinity—a false theophany born not of union, but of inner exile.
Additionally, such a dissociative personality structure, particularly when cloaked in the vestments of spiritual authority, is highly susceptible to recruitment into psychological operations (psy-ops) by state or non-state actors engaged in influence campaigns, spiritual infiltration, or destabilization efforts. Individuals like R., who oscillate between grandiose mystical performance and fragmented personal identity, are ideal assets: they are credulous yet confident, manipulable yet persuasive, unstable yet magnetic. Their ego-fragile need to feel ‘chosen’ or uniquely gifted renders them vulnerable to grooming by handlers who reinforce their delusions of spiritual mission in exchange for compliance. Furthermore, the rhetorical style of dissociative mystics—ambiguous, emotionally evocative, resistant to critique—makes them excellent vectors for confusion-based manipulation, especially in online environments where affect often trumps logic. Whether tasked with sowing disinformation, emotionally disarming a target, or drawing influential individuals into controlled relationships, a dissociated guru-type like Ronia provides the perfect delivery mechanism: she believes her manipulation is sacred work, making her not merely a tool, but an unwitting evangelist for operations she herself does not fully comprehend.
Sample 1:
If you declare to be honest with yourself, You become a seer of momentary history. Carving out of knowing thyself is an act in an event you have already committed to. What does become in the making of overcoming your looking here? At what point can you inform Self that the entire world is waiting for the second coming. It is; It is within, as a condition of the threshold. A never have left totality of dwelling to the inward Idea of the spirit. The threshold must be tied into the vision, as a state inside, before what you don't understand. Unknowing a prerequisite. your own energy focused to be in the discovery to desire Oneselfhood. For your own Lordship is found in discipline to that inquiry in the relational. The asking, All composed Being in the Now of Higher Time constitution.It is in each person you meet. Love each person. Ask how to love. Over and over and over again, Ask how to love. Over and over and over again, Ask how to love. Work on oneself is made up of feeling Without your feeling. there is no movement unless you feel all that does not make sense. Feeling transmutes the seed of potential possibilities. In Life God lives. In people God lives. No matter whom. No matter, whom is where Gods face IS at each turn! It is enough to be honouring what begins to question you. This amounts to the work that is claimed in your actions. The only question left is the whisper of Gods voice asking Have you loved my image in every configuration? Choose Love. Knowledge is coarse power. The scent of Love destroys every known thing. Make rose water in the palm of your hands. wipe your face again. Let go. The sacrifice is in the entanglement between unknowing.
Sample 2:
For we stand locked into a space time dimension where the body has a choice. This only arrived through the Grace of God. Prior to this moment, you were imprisoned by your own negation which is the lowliness of the lack of naming the existence of One Absolute. The suffering is all in the identification. Present Global crisis i we are faced inside modernity identification politics- faced by digital governance; made up of people that have insufficient capacities to give the nourishment of feeding the hungry soul. The battle on the ground and the battle through the device, a new weapon. This is why the education of the ‘fourth way’ matters and must bring itself to stretch people further. They are consumers, give them something to bow to. Be vertical. Let your companion hold you accountable. Underground fourth way secrecy existed to protect the infant soul seeking student to cultivate enough self remembering for prayer. This is what Saves -atleast the beginning of how to feel free inside the shell of the physicality emptiness, the furtherness that newbies despair in. Can you see that each man suffers the same predicament of the condition he fell into? In one very closely attuned way, you must apply compassion to keep moving forward and past others symptoms of gross matter. To yourself and each person. We are one. The remedy lies in the Good Lord providing religious instructions throughout all of history. Each religion , a key. Yet man continues to be lazy and follow the charlatan to give him a taste. Thank the hands of the man that knows how to make simple food for sharing. The virtue of giving up, over and over and over again, it is your blanket for your protection and others. What beauty! You fool, you have nothing except the making of kneading this bread. Head down, lower gaze. The first clay is at war with the spirit. Rub them together with active imagination. Love God, unknowable. Rely on this, and wait. Inside the bones there will be Space , time and dimension that will serve others. Until again, Work for Union or Die back to hypocrisy.
Sample 3:
Hope is generosity in affirmative praise to the One and Holy. The release of the burden of artificial self recoiling itself back to serving creation the great escape is assisted by the remedy of applied love Counsel your soul by way of virtue towards purification of such a such ness of that ever present nagging feeling of deciept called knowing
