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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…

Dr. KEITH A. BUZZELL, D.O. Curriculum Vitae Education 1962-63 ~ Fellowship: Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Missouri1960-61 ~ Internship: Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, Portland1956-60 ~ D.O., Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Pennsylvania1955-56 ~ Graduate School: Boston University School of Music, Massachusetts1955 ~ A.B., Boston University, Massachusetts Publications The Third Striving. Salt Lake City: Fifth Press,…

“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…

“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…

“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,…

“…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…

“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…

“For one who desires to study human mechanicality in general and to make it clear to himself, the very best object of study is he himself with his own mechanicality; and to study this practically and to understand it sensibly, with all one’s being, and not “psychopathically,” that is, with only one part of one’s…