Contents:   A New Conception of God

Further Reflections on Gurdjieff’s Whim

The Guide and Key, “Attention and Work,” provided with this volume is useful in understanding the principles explored in this and all of Keith Buzzell’s books.

Foreword by Joseph Azize

Author’s Preface

Gurdjieff’s vision ~ extraordinary knowledge ~ Great Traditions and modern science

01 A Renewed Concept of Conscience

Evolution and Conscience ~ the critical state ~ sorrow~ long suffering of his endlessness

02 A Crimson Thread

The horror of horrors ~ death of the three brains ~ survival ~ the ultimate cause of war

03 Kundabuffer and Work

The weight-of-Law ~ centers and conflict ~ elimination in all three brains ~ role of attention

04 Sensing and Feeling

Biochemical roots ~ ‘hydrogens’ and digestion ~ “initiative factors” ~ Family Triad and feeling

05 Conscious – Unconscious

Higher Nature ~ cosmic importance ~ our biology

06 Conception

Biological analog to Higher Bodies

07 Origins

Intent of Great Nature ~ lateral octave ~ feelings: the reconciliation

08 Bodies and Centers.

Form and function

09 DO – RE – MI of the Octaves of Food, Air, Impressions

Digestion; involution / evolution ~ elementals ~ simultaneities ~ mechano-coinciding-Mdnel-In ~ conscious shocks

10 Knowledge and Being

Knowing the natural world ~ mechanical nature ~ pursuit of “Why?”

11  Three Bodies

Man’s two natures ~ Mentekithzoin ~ Theomertmalogos ~ Okidanokh / Will

12 Reason

Relativity ~ coating ~ beyond logic ~ Okiartaaitokhsa ~ work with others

13 The Triadic Nature of “Is” and Attention

Instinctive/ moving ~ feeling ~ thought ~ Attentions

14 The Triune Will

To Create, Relate and Love

15 Laws and the Three Food Octaves

Primary principles ~ integration of Six Laws ~ role of will

16  Attention (H12), The Greatest Gift to Life;
The Power to Pursue Meaning and Purpose

Exioëhary / the Attentions … as photons ~ Okidanokh ~ instinctive center ~ hazard

Appendices

Reference — Recommended Reading

Biography

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