Author: avokadosh
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Conscience – interview video excerpts and reading from A New Conception of God
selected excerpt from an extended interview with Keith Buzzell and readings from the book
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Community; Opportunities To Connect…
The Editors at Fifth Press welcome you to explore participation in ongoing reading groups involved in digesting the literary legacy of G.I. Gurdjieff and Dr. Buzzell’s perspectives. In our increasingly fractured and digital culture our reading groups offer an opportunity to connect with like minded seekers. Inquire here. Dr. Buzzell was one of the original attendees…
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The Search For Meaning and The Mystery of Consciousness by Stephen Aronson
a longtime friend of Dr. Keith Buzzell
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Work On Self
“When personal effort is made, a process of confrontation and verification is set in motion, leading to growth of being, and the appearance of Will or I. This may be further transformed, through work on self with others, special exercises, compassion and service, into egoless I AM and possible return to higher levels of existence.”…
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Work On Oneself
“Work on oneself requires effort and a large portion of the energy involved in this effort will be lost. However, the energy gained from the food greatly exceeds the loss.” Keith A. Buzzell, Man, A Three-brained Being, (Fifth Press, 2007), P. 105. “Without the effort to self-remember, work-on-oneself devolves into imagination, ‘thinking about’ and ‘feeling…
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Inner Growth
“Inner growth, the growth of the inner bodies of man, the astral [Kesdjan Body], the mental [Higher Being-body], and so on, is a material process completely analogous to the growth of the physical body. In order to grow, a child must have good food, his organism must be in a healthy condition to prepare from…
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Shock
“The first conscious shock (the effort to self-remember) refers to all efforts, however partial they may be, that aim to establish a presence or a witness within any or all of the three aspects of our being. With each effort to self-remember, there may be an extremely brief interval in which there is a presence,…
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Conscious Evolution
“…the conscious evolution of a human being requires that their three brains actively participate in each step of the process/event. A something (we will call it “presence”), must enter… This presence has a distinct and unique quality within each of the three forces of the triad, making possible a succession of choices/ decisions that can…
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Intentional Suffering
“One of the best means of rendering ineffective the pre-disposition present in your nature of the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer is “intentional-suffering”; and the greatest intentional-suffering can be obtained in your presences if you compel yourselves to be able to endure the “displeasing-manifestations-of-others-towards-yourselves.” G. I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales to…