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I discovered the writings of P. D. Ouspensky from a book by Colin Wilson called The Occult. Wilson quotes a long passage from The New Model of the Universe, which so struck me that the next time I was in a used book store I inquired about Ouspensky. The owner of the store didn’t have any of his books, but…
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Psychologically an ordinary man is not prepared for such an intense flow of energy, and the resulting manifestations (symptoms) are what we call the manic phase of bi-polar disorder.
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As a rule, we either don’t think about how identity will organize itself without a body, or we assume we will be given a soul after death in the same way we were given a body at birth. But to believe that a soul can be given is a misunderstanding of what a soul is…
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The work we are involved in is long and it is normal to occasionally fall into a state of apathy about our progress,..
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In the summer before my last year in high school my older sister’s best friend, Jeni, was killed in an automobile accident.;..
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Gurdjieff and Ouspensky had an affinity for science. Gurdjieff was interested…
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When we take this principle of balancing the four lower centers to the scale of nations, business mirrors the instinctive center; government, the moving center; religion and myth, the emotional center; and the press and the arts, the intellectual center…
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The only way we can have a guarantee of good fortune is to find a way of thinking and living that transforms events that we now think of as bad fortune into events that we can consider good fortune…
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