1. Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson 2. Meetings With Remarkable Men 3. Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'
4. In Search of Being -- which is like a compilation of the above and maybe some extra stuff
P.D. Ouspensky
5. Tertium Organum 6. In Search of the Miraculous -- the best place to start for those new to Gurdjieff 7. The Fourth Way: A Lucid explanation of the practical side of G.I. Gurdjieff's teachings
8. Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll -- in 5 volumes
9. Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation and Exercises by Joseph Azize
10. The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff by Colin Wilson
11. Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy by Roger Lipsey
So far in my readings there's a link to all of this to 12.The Philokalia which is Eastern Orthodox monastic writings, in 5 volumes!!
And in about 7 days i'll be getting these!!!
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@bookerdana In the sense that we don't know what's going on, nor what we are, and can't understand anyone, nor ourselves, his first book was meant to mercilessly destroy our misconceptions so that we can awaken, and start working on ourselves. Oh in a few years i'll be able to word it much better.
@bookerdana Also Aquinas who after seeing a vision of the Almighty said Everything I have written was turned to ashes
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@bookerdana Evocative of Isaiah when he had that vision of the Almighty and got his tongue burnt.
For even Ouspensky he didn't turn out too well, becoming alcoholic and stuff. I first read of these guys from a book about Blavatsky, who's The Secret Doctrine literally caused her death. The idea that if you do these teachings wrongly it could be like your cursed then, which for me amps up the intrigue, the danger of it all?? Am i converting you? ;)
@bookerdana With George and Rudolf i may be able to read her, and for that, i'm EXCITED, oh my goodness though my memory of that when she's telling about the meaning of those fragments from tablets, NOT ONE WORD made a lick of sense!!
@SW-User not a good start..tell em to spit the pebbles out
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@bookerdana Then there's Annie Besant the 2nd biggest theosophist. From that milieu Krishnamurti came, whose writings are SOOOO applicable and lovely, i can imagine him thinking what is this bullshit, i gotta be the guy who makes some sense around here!!
@SW-User I have a book by Krishnamurti,my friend is was a big fan
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@bookerdana He a keeper, but in the last year i saw videos where he's acting like a chump with Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist. Chogyam won that battle for sure.
@SW-User he was also a fan of Rajneeshee ..before the bio attacks😒
No one learns from THE Majoresi
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@bookerdana uh oh, another thing to look up!! thanks my friend. btw i showed dad Julia last night, he was all upset with Tilda's character until around the end. A good time!!
@SW-User I get that..she was wild and unpredictable and running around with a kid..btw I meant the Maharishi,who makes Elmer Gantry look like a saint..he has mersh now😒
