“It is one thing to write or talk about efforts to direct the attention, to self- remember, to establish a separated ‘presence’ to the world of images or to make a conscious effort to ‘follow the breath’. It is another thing, altogether, to make the effort to do it. The discussions undertaken in this chapter will result in nothing but vaporous ideas and ‘a-thinkings’ if concerted effort is not made to apply the ideas to one’s own subjective, inner experience. However, when this type of personal effort is made, a process of confrontation and possible verification is set in motion. One begins, with this three-brained effort, to experience the requirements which are prerequisite to the process of “active mentation”.”
G. I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, 1950, p. 89.
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Perspectives On Beelzebub’s Tales (2005) — 2 hits | |
| p. 162 | process in the Air and Impressions Octaves (at their mi – fa intervals). In these octaves, a conscious effort must be made to remain separated from the automatic feeling and thinking states and to not | |
| p. 183 | independent formations” are the Kesdjan Body and Higher Being-body, coated by the non-automatic, conscious effort of the three-brained beings acting in resonance with the actualizations of his endlessness | |
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Explorations In Active Mentation (2006) — 2 hits | |
| p. 275 | multiplication cannot occur automatically. We illustrate this required principle of a more conscious effort by connecting the Will points of the triads of law of a three brained being to form the inner | |
| p. 275 | circulation. This signifies that this inner circulation is ‘given’ automatically, hence requiring no conscious effort. For example, in the second multiplication, new connections between the Will points will | |
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