Moving centre
Abdominal brain — action and learned movement
The moving centre is the abdominal brain in this three-centres rendering: it governs practical action, motor coordination, and learned bodily patterns. We anchor it in the belly as an editorial projection of the lower seat described in Fourth Way teaching, not as a claim that one abdominal organ is the source of movement.
Point 3 of 3 in Gurdjieffian Enneagram — Three Centres
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Moving centre ↔ Moving centre (distance 0.010)
Sources
G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (primary_canonical)
Gurdjieff's primary text; its recurring account of three-brained beings supplies the canonical three-brain frame, although it does not provide this normalized body diagram.
P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (secondary)
A secondary record of Gurdjieff's lectures, including the intellectual, emotional, and moving centres, their differing speeds, and their practical observation.
Kathleen Riordan Speeth, The Gurdjieff Work (scholarly_modern)
Modern scholarly and practice-oriented synthesis of Fourth Way exercises, self-observation, and the functional centres.