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Implications of Esotericism: An Excerpt from Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way
Implications of Esotericism An Excerpt from Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way An Esoteric Legacy By Stephen A. Grant About This Title A profound new look at Gurdjieff’s life, teachings, and role as a spiritual leader through the lens of esotericism. Gurdjieff warned against taking anything literally or on faith and advised accepting only experience that could
Our picture of ourselves is formed by what we experience. Each of us comes into the world unsoiled, like a clean sheet of paper. Then people and circumstances around us begin vying with each other to sully this sheet, to cover it with writing. Education, the formation of morals, information called “knowledge”—all feelings of duty, honor, conscience and so on—enter here. And all these people claim that the methods adopted for grafting these shoots known as man’s “personality” to the trunk are immutable and infallible.
From the Foreword to the Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff
The Reality of Being$34.95 - PaperbackBy: Stephen A. Grant & Jeanne de Salzmann & Stephen A. Grant Add to Cart4 reviews on Amazon George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866–1949) regarded knowledge of reality—what he called true "knowledge of being"—as a stream flowing from remote antiquity, passed on from age to age, from people to people, from race