Most of the preliminary exercizes in Sufi and Gurdjieff schools consist in making you aware that the “self” is not constant but shifts back and forth between the imprints on the various circuits. The “soul” or Circuit VII is constant, because it is, as the Chinese say, void or no-form. It plays all the roles you play — oral dependent, emotional tyrant, cool rationalist, romantic seducer, neurosomatic healer, neurogenetic Evolutionary Visionary — but it is none of them. It is plastic. It is no-form, because it is all forms. It is the “creative Void” of the Taoists.
