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This review is from: The Gurdjieff Work (Library of Spiritual Classics) (Paperback)
Writers of spiritual philosophy could learn a lot about communciating their ideas by reading this slender, marvelously clear document. The author distills an enormous amount of complex material in a brief, accurate, and wholly understandable format. Don't let anyone tell you that complex ideas necessitate complex language. When someone really understands a subject, he is generally able to speak about it simply. And this author provides a beautiful case in point.
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This review is from: The Gurdjieff Work (Library of Spiritual Classics) (Paperback)
This book is unrivalled as the clearest presentation of Gurdjieffian mythos, ethos & logos. For anyone seeking transparent elucidation of the "work", this is the best starting point. Instead of meandering through the ponderous & subjective musings of Nicoll, Bennet, Orage and Ouspensky, here you got in a nutshell:1.GIG's cosmology: a highly original ( this is an understatement ) variant of Neoplatonist emanationism combined with Blavatskyan planes/worlds; all set in a pseudoscientific lingo using ordinary chemical symbols ( Carbon, Oxygen, etc.) in a bizarre quasi-alchemical setting. 2.GIG's psychology: a modern-day gnosticism without "divine spark". His famous "centres" ( physical/vital, emotional, intellectual ) are old Platonic & Thomist archaic psychology recast in a deceptively "oriental" mode- in fact, Gurdjieffian esoteric physiology is Western ( his centres having little in common with chakras ), while the entire raison for the "work" is Eastern: in essence, this is activation & empowering of the already existent, but numb & deluded jiva ( Tantric tradition ), spiritual seed ( Valentinian gnosticism ) or vijnana ( Vajrayana Buddhism ). GIG's emphasis on non-existence of "I" is just a pedagogic trick. 3. And, last: it was GIG who has brought enneagram to the West. This ancient Hermetic symbol, serving primarily as a glyph delineating stages of alchemical transmutation of a psyche, has become, due to hilarious unpredictable New Age ravings, a sort of universal bestseller on the pop-psychological supermarket. What to say at the end ? Read it- it's a truly delightful mystery story on the search of the miraculous.
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From looking at the reviews here it seems they love this book or hate it. As someone outside of "The Work" and who is collecting data to make a decision to delve into the work I may have a more objective view. This is the second book I've read on "The Work" and have read one more since. This book seems to accurately (although briefly) portray "the work". There are plenty of names dropped in this book as Kathleen explores the ancestry of the work and gives plenty of information on current groups. One tidbit I took away was about the value of the practice of the daily review. By reviewing one's day at the end of it this strengthens the practice of "Self Observation" as being a delayed observation of self.
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In most parts of the Western world you can, if you make a serious attempt to do so, find a group of people who are, as they say, "in the work"-that is, who attempt, together and as individuals, to function more consciously and harmoniously according to the ideas and practices given by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ordinary waking state, conscious shock, magnetic center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Law of Seven, Man Number Two, Gurdjieff Foundation, Man Number One, Man Number Three, Frank Lloyd Wright, Northeon Forest, Dalai Lama, Hindu Kush, Katherine Mansfield, Pacific Bell, The Observer New!
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In most parts of the Western world you can, if you make a serious attempt to do so, find a group of people who are, as they say, "in the work"-that is, who attempt, together and as individuals, to function more consciously and harmoniously according to the ideas and practices given by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ordinary waking state, conscious shock, magnetic center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Law of Seven, Man Number Two, Gurdjieff Foundation, Man Number One, Man Number Three, Frank Lloyd Wright, Northeon Forest, Dalai Lama, Hindu Kush, Katherine Mansfield, Pacific Bell, The Observer New!
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- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All And Everything: 1st Series (Compass) by G. I. Gurdjieff on 6 pages
- In Search of the Miraculous (Harvest Book) by P. D. Ouspensky on 6 pages
- All and Everything by G Gurdjieff on 6 pages
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything) by G. I. Gurdjieff on 4 pages
- Views from the Real World by G. I. Gurdjieff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Traveller On The Path by Ronn Parker on 4 pages
- The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships by Helen Palmer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Wisdom of Listening by Mark Brady on page 107, and Back Matter
- Gurdjieff and Orage by Paul Beekman Taylor on page 228, and Back Matter
- Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso on page 15, and Back Matter
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