P. D. Uspensky begins his book by talking about the essence of the “Fourth Way” system and briefly formulating its main ideas. And then he specifies them in answers to questions that students from different countries asked him. From the author’s point of view, we do not use even a small part of our abilities and strengths. We are born to live in four states of consciousness, but, in fact, we are constantly in only two of them: either we sleep or we are “awake”. But even in the latter case, according to Uspensky, a person acts only like a “machine”, automatically reacting to external circumstances. But we have the power to use what we are given in different ways. An airplane can become a carriage if horses are harnessed to it, or it can soar in the sky.P. D. Uspensky talks about how to achieve higher states of consciousness (self-awareness and objective consciousness) and, ultimately, lead a truly human life, in which we are not victims of reality that crushes our dreams, but a full part of it. This book consists of verbatim excerpts from conversations with Uspensky between 1921 and 1946.