Feb 09
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Gurdjieff: One Mind-bending Tale
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On a whim, I decided to re-visit the work of G. I Gurdjieff. It is relevant here, especially as facilitating the conscious life was the main goal of “The Work” he proposed for all of us.
His masterpiece series of writings “All and Everything” is written not only to instruct, but also to expand the limits of your consciousness–partially by the effort required to comprehend the complexity of his verbiage (he explicitly points out that he avoids “bon ton literary language”):
“In trying first to understand the basic thought and real significance hidden in this strange verbal formulation, there must, in my opinion, first of all arise in the consciousness of every more or less sane-thinking man the supposition that, in the totality of ideas on which is based and from which must flow a sensible notion of this saying, lies the truth, cognized by people for centuries, which affirms that every cause occurring in the life of man, from whatever phenomenon it arises, as one of two opposite effects of other causes, is in its turn obligatorily molded also into two quite opposite effects, as for instance: if “something” obtained from two different causes engenders light, then it must inevitably engender a phenomenon opposite to it, that is to say, darkness; or a factor engendering in the organism of a living creature an impulse of palpable course also palpable, and so on and so forth, always and in everything.” (First Series, p. 11)
Wheeew! If that sentence doesn’t stretch your ability to comprehend written material, I’m not sure what will…
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