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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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Thinking may make us human, but it doesn’t make us conscious.
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Gurdjieff and Ouspensky had an affinity for science. Gurdjieff was interested…
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Before I can begin to talk about prayer and how it relates to inner work, I am going to have to speak about a few misconceptions…
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At the age of five I was sent to Catholic school and almost immediately got into trouble with the priests and nuns who ran the parish…
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In general people can agree that men differ in the amount of knowledge they possess–a man may be more knowledgeable or less knowledgeable than another man–but it is a little more tricky to see that two men may possess a different being, especially in relation to spiritual matters.
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When people first come in contact with Gurdjieff’s system, the idea that man is many ‘I’s’is often objected to. People don’t like being told that they are not one person; it sounds crazy. But really it’s reversed. The truly crazy people, the scary people, are the ones who are always the same.
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When I was a young man, I worked at a psychiatric clinic, and one morning I was asked to go to our front offices to admit a new patient…
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