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In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky - Chapter 2

Note: Chapters 9+14 are focused on diagrammatic material and are currently absent. These may be added at a later date.
door Tsenne Kikke - vrijdag 18 juni 2021 7:47

Topics

Petersburg in 1915 - Gurdjieff in Petersburg - A talk about groups - Reference to 'esoteric' work 'Prison' and 'Escape from prison' - What is necessary for this escape? - Who can help and how? - Beginning of meetings in Petersburg - A question on reincarnation and future life - How can immortality be attained? - Struggle between 'yes' and 'no' - Crystallization on a right, and on a wrong, foundation - Necessity of sacrifice - Talks with Gurdjieff and observations - A sale of carpets and talks about carpets - What Gurdjieff said about himself - Question about ancient knowledge and why it is hidden - Gurdjieff's reply - Knowledge is not hidden - The materiality of knowledge and man's refusal of the knowledge given to him - A question on immortality - The 'four bodies of man' - Example of the retort filled with metallic powders - The way of the fakir, the way of the monk, and the way of the yogi - The 'fourth way' - Do civilization and culture exist?

- Reading by Debbie Elliott -

The book 'In Search of the Miraculous' (ISOM) begins with Ouspensky returning home to St. Petersburg from his recent excursion to the East, where he journeyed 'in search of the miraculous', as he put it. He soon meets a mysterious man, a certain 'G.', who has all the answers to which Ouspensky has been so arduously searching for all his life. He immediately joins Mr. Gurdjieff's esoteric school, and begins learning a certain system of self-development which originated in the East, allegedly during the most remote antiquity, possibly millennia before recorded history.

Ouspensky recounts his trials learning this new system, which he later refers to as the Fourth Way, often recollecting entire lectures, or parts of lectures, which Mr. Gurdjieff gave to his disciples in St. Petersburg and Moscow from 1915-1917. He describes many of his experiences, particularly concerning the 'art of self-remembering', and he recounts some of the methods and various exercises which comprised Gurdjieff's system.

The book concludes with his experiences during the Bolshevik Revolution and his and Mr. Gurdjieff's eventual escape to the West, where they continued to teach Mr. Gurdjieff's system to many followers until their respective deaths in 1947 and 1949. The latter part of the book also describes the author's feelings and motives behind his eventual decision to teach the system independently, not under the direct supervision of his teacher, Mr. Gurdjieff, which he formally announced to his students in London in early 1924.

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