Contents:  Explorations in Active Mentation

Chapter 1 Entirely New Principles The Gurdjieff teaching: is it revolutionary? appropriate? sufficient? ~ scientific method and the third dimension ~ impending catastrophe, conscience and science Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Function of Emotion Triadic nature of emotion ~ feeling and sensation ~ dimensions of the inner world ~ roles of the three brains […]

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Contents: Man — A Three-brained Being

Chapter 1 New Concepts The view of our life as tri-brained, which entered with Gurdjieff circa 1915 and was recapitulated in the 1950s by science, is a perspective capable of reconciling human values and new technologies. In Gurdjieff’s ‘hydrogens’, electromagnetic bonding energies are delimiters of material states, from mass-less to mass-based, which helps us understand […]

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Perspectives on
Beelzebub’s Tales

Chapter 1 The Enneagramatic Nature of Beelzebub’s Tales Gurdjieff wrote The Tales just as he lived his life ~The enneagram as a ‘new language’, necessary for a new understanding ~ Examples of enneagramatic structure from the text of The Tales. References most specifically Chapter 39, “The Holy Planet `Purgatory’.” Chapter 2 Innocence–The Comet–The Exile Life begins amid great […]

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Reviews:  Man – A Three-brained Being

Paul Beekman Taylor: Gurdjieff historian, author of Gurdjieff’s  Invention of America, The Philosophy of G.I. Gurdjieff, G.I. Gurdjieff: A New Life, Gurdjieff in the Public Eye, Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer, and Gurdjieff and Orage Jan 10, 2008 Once more, the physical book is a wonder. The graphics are outstanding. . .. The value […]

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Excerpt:  A New Conception of God

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Excerpt:  Reflections on Gurdjieff’s Whim

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Excerpt:  Explorations in Active Mentation

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Excerpt:  Perspectives on
Beelzebub’s Tales

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Excerpt:   Man—A Three-Brained Being

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Excerpt: The Third Striving

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