A PRACTICAL AND SACRED TEACHING OF GREAT SCALE, The Fourth Way shows how to use one's ordinary life—with all its uncertainty, negativity, suffering and pleasures—to come to real life. Rather than avoiding life or being magnetized or entrapped in it, one learns to consciously live one's life fearlessly, without imagination or regret. Actualizing the practices and principles of the teaching develops self-knowledge and being, which lead to real understanding and objective conscience.
          Unlike the three classic ways of self-transformation—work with the body (hatha yoga), work with the emotions (monasticism), work with the mind (raja yoga)—in The Fourth Way one stays in the midst of life working on all three centers—body, emotions, mind. The aim is to develop a harmonious individual capable of intelligent and creative response to life's opportunities and challenges—a New Type of Man. [The word Man, here as elsewhere, is used in its active sense, not as gender.]