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Title: In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book) by P. D. Uspenskii, Marianne Williamson, P. D. Ouspensky ISBN: 0-15-600746-0 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.84 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for your average hippie
Comment: For some reason, westerners think that Eastern philosophy is shallow, sentimental, unrealistic, and pseudo-intellectualism. And who could say otherwise with all the half-baked "be at peace with yourself" self-help manuals being marketed today? But Ouspensky is the real deal. Instead of watering down eastern thought in the manner of hippies, Ouspensky presents man in all his complexity. The reader is challenged, and we learn that awareness, real awareness, requires hard work, as opposed to the local yogi at your YMCA who tells you that mere meditating and stretching exercises will do the trick. There's so much in this book to take in. And at some moments you'll think that you're back in chemistry class with all the diagrams and discussions of hydrogens and triads. But don't be deterred. If you want to sit and meditate and be happy with your mickey mouse brand of self-exploration, then by all means, steer clear of this book. But for those of you who are serious, this book can start you on the path like no other, so long as you are diligent and somewhat desperate for another way of being.
Rating: 5
Summary: The red pill from Matrix
Comment: In the film matrix the main character is given a choice of seing the matrix by taking a red pill or remaining ignorant and taking a blue pill. The guy takes the red pill and sees the misery mankind is in. The film is scfi-fiction but thats not the case with the ideas behind it. Ouspensky's In search of.. is like taking the red pill and finding out the reality of things.
Choose your pill carefully.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
Comment: Ouspensky named his book 'Fragments of an Unknown Teaching', but when the book was published in 1950, after his own and Gurdjieff's death, the name was changed due to its similarity to 'Fragments of a Faith Forgotten' by G.R.S. Mead.
Gurdjieff's lectures and answers are recorded in the 'Fragments' so exactly that when Madame Ouspensky showed the book to Gurdjieff he said: 'I can hear myself speaking' and gave permission to publish the book, but insisted that his own book 'Beelzebub's Tales' must come out first. 'Beelzebub's Tales' was eventually also published first time in 1950.
The contents of the 'Fragments' were delivered in meetings in Moscow and Petrograd (earlier St. Petersburg, later Leningrad and now again St. Petersburg) in 1915 - 1918, in other words just before, during and just after the October revolution, in conditions G. described as favourable for 'picking up ideas'.
The 'Fragments' has the whole theory of Gurdjieff's teaching, often known as the Fourth Way, and moreover presented in such clear way that the book is easy reading taking into account the difficulty of the subject.
To get to know what Gurdjieff's teaching is can be found out by reading the book. To put it in just a few words is not really possible, but Ouspensky writes about it like this:
"G. began the next talk as follows:
"Man's possibilities are very great. You cannot conceive even a shadow of what man is capable of attaining. But nothing can be attained in sleep. In the consiousness of a sleeping man his illusions, his 'dreams' are mixed with reality. He lives in a subjective world and he can never escape from it. An this is the reason why he can never make use of all the powers he possesses and why he always lives in only a small part of himself."
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Title: Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46 by P. D. Uspenskii, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensk, Peter Demianovich Ouspensky ISBN: 0394716728 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: March, 1971 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff ISBN: 0140190376 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P. D. Uspenskii, P. D. Ouspensky ISBN: 0394719433 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: December, 1973 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man (All and Everything Series 1) by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff ISBN: 0140194738 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky ISBN: 0486297012 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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