Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946 [Paperback]

Gurdjieff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2008

Thirty-two meetings with Gurdjieff held at 6 rue des Colonels Renard, Paris, France. Unabridged.

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Book Studio; 1st edition (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0955909015
• ISBN-13: 978-0955909016
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,187,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this book, November 27, 2008

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Kenneth Jonsson - See all my reviews
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Often when I read for ex music reviews I think, why can't the reviewer
tell me what he likes and dislikes so I have something to relate to
when reading his review? That would make it so much easier for me.

Fourth Way books I find particularly inspiring are for ex: In Search
of the Miraculous, Views from the Real World, Kenneth Walker's Venture
with Ideas, Robert S. de Ropp's Self-Completion. I have made several
attempts on Beelzebub but failed. I can't say I have "worked" sincerly
all these 25 years I have been interested in the ideas. I get
inspiration from it. For me that's a lot. Enough said on that.

"Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946" is nothing more or
nothing less than exactly that. When reading the book I get the
feeling of spying on something not intended for my eyes. In a way I
guess it's true. It was never intended to be published, but now it is,
and the book is very interesting indeed.

I'm trying to remind myself all the time, while reading, that the
questions and answers in the meetings are for the people present only
and that I dont know anything about the people questioning. Several
times the talks are about an exercise previously explained in another
meeting, not included in the book, so it's difficult to get the full
picture, and sometimes the talks and explanations concerns a
particular person to such an extent it's hard to get anything out of
it at all. All this is of course quite natural considering the nature
of this book. It's good in a way. It helps me to detach from it and
view it for what it is.

Of course you will undoubtly find wisdom in this book. Brilliant
remarks and answers from Gurdjieff more universal and not only for the
particular person in question:

" Question: I've arrived at the point where I am very unhappy,
everything is distasteful to me, of no interest.
Gurdjieff: And that handkerchief arranged like that in your
pocket? That interests you."

The documentation of the meetings are remarkable in detail, at least
it seems like that. for ex:

"...And these three directors can give a fourth one, who can be the "I."
[Noise of breakage in the kitchen. Mr.Gurdjieff speaks in russian to
Mme de Salzmann.]
I'm saying to Mme de Salzmann...."

One feel very much present with all these details included. Some
chapters lists the people present and some not.

I highly recommend this book, mainly for the insight it gives to what
took place in Gurdjieff's apartment these years. It's not for the
"beginner". You must be aquainted with the terminology to get the most
out of it.

For what it is I can't give it less than 5 stars

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful insight, October 11, 2010

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R. A. Ebbole "WETRY" (LAKE WORTH, FL.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946 (Paperback)

Of all the literature written on the subject, this is perhaps most revealing into the methods and teaching of a truly remarkable man. Here we see a warm and sensitive side hitherto unavailable to the reader of other books dealing with Mr. gurdjieff and his methods. Here we see a patient and remarkable understanding of the questions posed him. Remarkable because of his spot-on-insight of the puples real question not spoken, but kept deep inside... Over and over he repeats the essential message: Self Remembering, not accidental but consciously done.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Between the lines..., December 12, 2008

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D. Bush "Desert Diver" (Albuquerque,NM-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946 (Paperback)

Transcriptions of down to earth meetings in G.'s Paris flat.
Clean notes without an aura of mystification...
Much material for thought in the vein of 'Views From the Real World'...

Recommended for those solidly connected with the Work.