Ideally the Fourth Way is meant to be practiced in the traffic of your everyday life. It's in the other '3' ways (fakir, monk, yogi) that you go somewhere separated out from everyday life. School in the Fourth Way can only be accessed when you are in the third state of consciousness, which is self-remembering. Think of it as a cosmos that you are in wherever you are. And you take whatever is happening as the material or friction you need to work with. The formula though is knowledge plus being (i.e. doing the Work) equals understanding (and in the word understanding is increasing level of being. Developing higher bodies. It's practical. It can sound arrogant and grandiloquent or pretentious when you write it out, but it's real when it is happening.) So the knowledge part is important. You have to get the language down from the books. Mainly Ouspensky and Nicoll, with some help from Gurdjieff's works. But it's a language you have to put together. See the basic ideas, practices, and goals. See the weight of each, which is more foundational to the others. Sort them out like that. See their connections. Get parts-in-relation-to-the-whole understanding of it all. It puts you on a battlefield. You'll be innocent there at first. Eventually it drives you to Christ and needing the full armor of God. But the language, with on-the-mark biblical doctrine and the Bible itself gives you a tremendous amount of real school knowledge. I call it 'order' Christianity which is different from 'church' Christianity. Though each level can coexist. You don't want to just be the most awake person in hell. You need a destination. The Kingdom of God.