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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Gurdjieff's ideas and human transformation,
By Bennett Books (Santa Fe, NM - USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deeper Man (Bennett Books Spiritual Classics Editions) (Paperback)
JG Bennett's definitive and eclectic approach to esoteric knowledge with Gurdjieff's ideas rigorously applied to the fundamental conditions of human transformation.
This book is essentially about freedom and how it can be achieved. It's a roadmap of the knowledge required to understand the different aspects of transformation. Chapters include: Energies, The Three Centers of Man, Selves, the Laws of the Different Worlds, The Law of Three, Death and Resurrection. Highly Recommended.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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The most important Book not written by an Orthodox Christian,
By david ryan "lindil" (Lakeport, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deeper Man (Bennett Books Spiritual Classics Editions) (Paperback)
Hopefully my bias will be clearly revealed by the title.
While I am on the fence or do not accept a # of 'Gurdjieff vs. traditional Christianity' issues [the fate of the soul after death, necessity of the Church's mysteries as institued by Christ, Judas Isacariot, etc, I am convinced that out of the hundred or so books I have read on G. and his system, no other book [excepting unpublished Gurdjieffean Meditation texts] comes even close to organizing clearly and experientially the mass of human spiritual experience. I rather doubt that this would be a good intro or even early book to read in one's 4th way studies [transformation and Spiritual PSychology would stand you in much better stead], but if after a while one feels stuck... If one has dipped into the Dramtic Universe, {Bennett's all and everything 'translated' through 50's/60's scientific English}, and found it too 'heady', then prepare to be refreshed. These are edited transcripts [the actual lectures can mostly be heard from bennettbooks' study of man series of tapes of JGB ] of his teaching to the last year or so of 10 month residential 4th way students. It is G, brought up to date. Some would argue against this, but I say put this book together w/ Heart w/ out Measure and an authentic source for learning the basic Gurdjieff meditations and all that will be left in your way will be your Chief Feature. And in my opinion a few serious errors re: the nature of the 'revelation' of Islam and the transmission of real esoteric Christianity. In short within the limitations [if you see them as such] of G's Work, this book lays the whole map out as 4 dimensionally as a book can. Even if you come to feel that you believe differently, you will still be greatful that you had such a touchstone to work from. Make sure you listen close!!! by the way, I am not a student of the JGB 'line' my 4th way teacher however used his material liberally and built much of his own researches on JGB's 'new and improved' 4th way. But I have come to JGB's primary practical works [Spiritual Psychology, Depper Man, Sevenfold Work and Energies] decades after my original studies and found it is the most valuable attempt at explaining the 4th way psycho-cosmology there is.
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This review is from: Deeper Man (Bennett Books Spiritual Classics Editions) (Paperback)
More than a primer on the fourth way, it is all inclusive in its treatment of its subject.
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