Independent psychological-disruption mechanism — the Fourth Way
Standalone operator outside the Western initiatory lineages (Theosophy / Golden Dawn / OTO). Gurdjieff's 'Fourth Way' framed humanity as mechanically asleep and deployed rigorous physical and cognitive shocks (the Movements, intentional disruption of automatic behavior, the Stop exercise) to force substrate-awareness. Documented in Ouspensky's *In Search of the Miraculous* and Gurdjieff's *Beelzebub's Tales*.