Gurdjieff

[Anonymous No.17551629]

Where do I start? Or should I skip the read and go do the dancing instead.

[Anonymous No.17552120]

>>17551629
>the dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMA8uQfCQWM&ab_channel=PartyCentral

[Anonymous No.17552130]

>>17552120
Me on the balcony

[Anonymous No.17552141]

>>17551629
>>17552120
Whats up with dancing and Gurdjieff?

[Anonymous No.17552379]

>>17551629
If you are interested in 4th way and Gurdjieff in general, you really can't go wrong with Ouspenky's In Search of the Miraculous. De Salzman's The Reality of Being is also a good companion book imo. I would definitely read at least one of those before reading Gurdjieff's own works.

[Anonymous No.17552395]

>>17551629
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

[Anonymous No.17552725]

>>17551629
I agree with >>17552379 that you should start with In Search of the Miraculous. Ouspensky's writings are solid.

>>17552395
Not good for beginners.

[Anonymous No.17552773]

>>17551629
Haven't heard that name in ages. Didn't he become a cult leader and diddle his female followers (as most of them do)?

[Anonymous No.17552782]

>>17552773
yes but the diddling gives him magic powers

[Anonymous No.17553042]

https://counter-currents.com/2021/01/remembering-mr-gurdjieff/

[Anonymous No.17553234]

>>17551629
Ouspensky’s “In Search of the Miraculous” is the supreme primer on him. Then, if you want to go deeper, you can read Beelzebub’s Tales, Meetings With Remarkable Men, and “Life is real only then, when ‘I am’”. Also helpful (but which most scholars can’t seem to acknowledge) is digging more into Gurdjieff’s ties to the Naqshbandi Sufis and the even more esoteric Sarmouni sect. This would mean reading Idries Shah, Rafael Lefort’s “The Teachers of Gurdjieff,” Ernest Scott’s “The People of the Secret,” HBM Dervish’s “Journeys With a Sufi Master,” and O.M. Burke’s “Among the Dervishes.”

[Anonymous No.17553294]

>>17552141
>>17552120
>>17551629

[Anonymous No.17553303]

>>17552141
>>17553294

[Anonymous No.17553304]

>>17553234
>Idries Shah

[Anonymous No.17553927]

https://youtu.be/aSO9OFJNMBA

[Anonymous No.17554050]

>>17552141
his schtick is all around the need for physicality to prevent morbidity of thought

[Anonymous No.17554058]

>>17553304
imagine being so vain that you sign a soijack

[Anonymous No.17554208]

>>17553304
I don't get it. Is he very popular with americans or something?

[Anonymous No.17554348]

>>17553304
Allah have mercy on you, poor infidel.

[Anonymous No.17554468]

>>17553234
>Ernest Scott’s “The People of the Secret,
I've wanted to read this, but I can't find a copy online, and it costs way too much to buy. Do you know where I can find a copy?

[Anonymous No.17554516]

>>17553294
>>17553303
Thank you.
His life sounds so fucking interesting. Can you tell me the name of this book?

[Anonymous No.17554997]

>>17554516
>>17554516
That’s actually a small passage touching on Gurdjieff in OM Burke’s “Among the Dervishes,” the majority of the book isn’t about Gurdjieff. However, it’s still a rather fascinating read and I’d recommend it. If you want one more directly about Gurdjieff, I recommend “The Teachers of Gurdjieff” by Rafael Lefort.

>>17554468
Sorry, I was lucky to find it on Amazon before it went out of stock. I’d recommend trying interlibrary loans either at your uni library assuming you go to Uni or your local public library, they can pretty much scour a huge amount of libraries to bring you very niche books.

[Anonymous No.17555048]

>>17554208
He's a new age hack, so I wouldn't be surprised.
>>17554348
The ironic part is I am a Muslim, I think perennialists are dumb but Shah tries to take Sufism outside of it's Islamic context. Taking a plant out of the soil just kills it.