La vita è reale solo quando «Io sono»

A First Reading Of Gurdjieff I became interested in learning about the teachings of George Gurdjieff (1877? -- 1949) after reading philosopher Jacob Needleman's memoir "What is God?" (2009), a book I admired a good deal. Needleman is one of many Western thinkers and artists who has been deeply influe Leggi tutto

Gurdjieff's aim in writing the Third Series was, "to assist the arising in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, nonfantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality." Just from that quote, one can tell two thin Leggi tutto

Is spiruality that difficult to understand? This book is nothing more than the rants and suffering of a crazy person. He constantly thinks and analyses his situation to understand his suffering. He constantly sets goals to write and teach what he has learned in live. But he didnt learn anything! He

1. OMG! What a load of verbiage! It looks like English but there is no sense in any sentence of the 3x-too-long sentences. 2. Disappointing. Gurdjieff was a profound man, but there is zero profundity in this book. 3. Its not a book. Its like a letter written to someone who he imagined presumably cared Leggi tutto

Გურჯიევის გაცნობის მსურველებმა ეს წიგნი მის სხვა ნამუშევრებზე უფრო ადრე არ უნდა წაიკითხონ, თორე შეიძლება საერთოდ აღარ მოიხედონ ამ მისტიკური ისტორიებითა და დაუდასტურებელი ამბებით სავსე კაცის ცხოვრებისაკენ. Აქ მოცემულმა ლექციებმა საერთოდ ვერ "ჩამითრია". Თემა საინტერესოა, თუმცა, მთხობელზე ჯერ ამას ვერ Leggi tutto