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Deconstructing Gurdjieff
DIR By: forbitals
Date: November 19, 2019, 6:51 pm
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So reading this Tobias Churton book about Georges Gurdjieff.
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Churton is a prolific writer. I cannot imagine how he can read
how many books as he must.
This discussion of Gurdjieff does follow on from his discussion
of turn of the century Paris.
Some books and people are introduced.
A highly influential thinker and writer:
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Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767, Ganges, Hérault –
March 25, 1825, Paris)
French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and
philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as
Eliphas Lévi, Gérard Encausse - Papus and Édouard Schuré.
Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre
(26 March 1842 – 5 February 1909) was a French occultist who
adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825) and, in turn,
had his ideas adapted by Gérard Encausse alias Papus. His work
on "L'Archéomètre" deeply influenced the young René Guénon. He
developed the term Synarchy—the association of everyone with
everyone else—into a political philosophy, and his ideas about
this type of government proved influential in politics and the
occult.
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And then Papus.
And then especially
Édouard Schuré
Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April
7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright,
novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.
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And his book is in academic libraries
The great initiates : a study of the secret history of religions
/ translated from the French by Gloria Rasberry. Introd. by Paul
M. Allen.
Gurdjieff was very aggressive about educating himself too. Have
to admire that.
And then talk about Jules Doniel, as he founded the Gnostic
Church.
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Re: Deconstructing Gurdjieff
DIR By: forbitals
Date: November 26, 2019, 8:14 pm
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So to follow up on stuff from the Tobias Churton book on
Gurdjieef:
G's organization was Institute for Development of the Harmonious
Human Being, IDHHB.
This ran for along time. I talked to someone with them in Palo
Alto, maybe 20 years ago.
If you looked in a library at a book by or about G., you might
find an IDHHB book mark.
But today though, looks like IDHHB has been taken over or merged
with one E. J. (Jeff) Gold, a self styled G. imitator. Maybe
this is for the better.
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So Peter D. Ouspensky, major follower of G. Read some of his
stuff. But later Ouspensky turned against G.
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Some of his books can now be found online.
I would be more inclined to go along with Ouspensky than with G.
himself.
Today only Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr
Demʹi︠a︡novich), 1878-1947.
In search of the miraculous; fragments of an unknown teaching.
is in academic libraries around me.
Both G. and Ouspensky amounted to Anti-Marxists, especially
Anti-Bolsheviks.
But Ouspensky helped found the London School of Economic
Science, and they are built first and foremost on the works of
the American Socialist Henry George.
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Labor MP Andrew MacLaren
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video
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and right here, a book about them
East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women
from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural
divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the
West / John Adago (2014)
Yeah I gotta read this:
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