Gurjeff for me gave permission to not follow. After reading Beelzibubs tales I came to the conclusion that everything is an analogy, some things being just pages in a personal collection of ideas.
I personally feel that DMT takes you beyond, to where your own spirituality becomes the frame work.
The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby outlines a few interesting biological possibilities that work for me. But I carry Gurjeff with me at all times, as I do Osho and Madame Blavatsky and Rasputin and Mother Theresa..and many many others..

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One can never cross the ocean without the Courage to lose sight of the shore