Tag Archives: Ouspensky

Types of “Influences”


After a “little” pause, I have returned to write more posts, and this time, I would like to speak about a topic which seems to be of specific interest to many people, as indicated by the emails I receive. This … Continue reading

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A Blog trailer: Why Not?


Seeing that book-trailers exist since 1994, I asked myself why not to do a blog-trailer. Why not? The video below is the result of this idea. If you like this blog page, help me to share it’s contents, feel free … Continue reading

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Suggestibility and Hypnotism


from Nicoll’s “Commentaries,” pp. 1422-1423 “What is this strange hypnotic sleep that we are all in, about which Gurdjieff used to speak so much? There are two things that we are told are different–hypnotism and suggestibility. Although it has been … Continue reading

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Uncomfortable Posture Exercise


from Gurdjieff‘s “Views from the Real World,” pages 167 & 231(sb)/239-241(hb) page 167: You ask about the aim of the movements. To each position of the body corresponds a certain inner state and, on the other hand, to each inner … Continue reading

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The theory of the Four Bodies (a neverending story)


….The following text is a short consideration of an neverending research…so, be patient, receptive and open-minded… In accord to the ancient teachings, a man has four bodies: physical, emotional, intellectal and causal. Differently from many other esoteric diciplines, the Fourth … Continue reading

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Levels of Being


Introduction In the classical Fourth way teaching is said that the there are four level of consciousness that the human being can perceive: the sleep state, the walking state, the state of self awareness and the state of objective awareness, … Continue reading

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Fragments from the Yale’s Ouspensky Collection


“Real negative emotions are completely submerged by the sea of unreal negative emotions”- Ouspensky “The only freedom we have is to do harm to the Work and to other people” – Ouspensky “Chief feature compensates for chief weakness” – Ouspensky … Continue reading

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Glimpses of Truth


Written by one of Gurdjieff’s circle in Moscow Strange events, incomprehensible from the ordinary point of view, have guided my life. I mean those events which influ- ence a man’s inner life, radically changing its direction and aim and creating … Continue reading

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Fisrt Step: Achieve an Aim


When one person begins his path, he must have an aim, that’s a fact: a direction, a task, something who the necessary energy to begin the “walking on the waters”*. Without aims, no one can go nowhere. Aim is necessary … Continue reading

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I am, I can, I wish Exercise


from Gurdjieff‘s “Life is real only then, when ‘I am,’ ” pp. 110-111 For an approximate definition of the first of these three human impulses which must arise and manifest themselves in a real man, one might employ the English word … Continue reading

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