Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am"

by G. I. Gurdjieff

All and Everything (Third Series)

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This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New York. The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material crucial to an understanding of the nature and intensity of personal effort required for an all-inclusive work on oneself. This is followed by a series of talks which Gurdjieff gave to his pupils in New York in 1930, and then by a long, but show more incomplete, essay on 'The Outer and Inner World of Man'. show less

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I have read Meetings with Remarkable Men more than once and Beelzebub (parts of it several times). Life has sat unread on my shelves until now. This a challenging book, both because it is by Mr G and because it is fragmentary. One reading is certainly only scratching the surface, so some initial observations. There is much about Mr G's life, especially his early life (prologue) and his relationship with Orage. The third talk has the clearest distinction of feeling and sensing that I have seen in any book on G's teachings. The fourth and fifth present practical exercises, on which see also Joseph Azize's Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises.
This book, published nealry 50 years after it was written, constitutes a primary source for the ideas, methods and biography of G.I. Gurdjieff.
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> RÉSUMÉ. — Le nom de Gurdjieff est aujourd'hui reconnu comme celui d'un grand maître spirituel, tel qu'il en apparaît dans l'histoire de l'humanité, à des époques de transition. Voyant la direction que prenait la civilisation moderne, Gurdjieff s'était donné comme tâche d'éveiller ses contemporains à la nécessité d'un développement intérieur qui leur ferait prendre conscience du sens réel de leur présence sur terre.
Les notes rassemblées dans cet ouvrage se show more rapportent à quelques-unes des réunions qui se tenaient chaque soir autour de Gurdjieff, quelles que soient les circonstances.
Ces textes ne sont pas une transcription directe. En effet, Gurdjieff ne permettait pas à ses élèves de prendre des notes au cours des réunions. Quelques auditeurs prévoyants, doués d'une mémoire exceptionnelle, s'efforçaient ensuite de reconstituer ce qu'ils avaient entendu. Sans chercher à présenter une synthèse des idées développées par Gurdjieff - comme P.D. Ouspensky l'a tenté avec maîtrise dans Fragments d'un enseignement inconnu - ces notes, si incomplètes soient-elles, ont été reconnues par ceux qui avaient assisté aux réunions comme aussi fidèles que possible à la parole de leur maître.
Ces comptes rendus sont précédés de trois autres textes de caractère différent. Lueurs de vérité, datant de 1914, est le récit que fait un élève russe de sa première rencontre avec Gurdjieff, près de Moscou, avant la Révolution. Les deux autres textes, datant respectivement de 1918 et de 1924, sont des conférences données par Gurdjieff.
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George Gurdjieff was a modern magus who was born in Alexandropol, Armenia, and traveled widely as a young man, spending several years in Central Asia and Tibet. His experiences during this time led to his famous book Meetings with Remarkable Men, an account of his alleged encounters with Eastern spiritual teachers that was published posthumously show more in 1963. Gurdjieff's system draws on diverse sources, including Sufism, Buddhism, and the Cabala. He taught that human beings have neither soul nor true will and must strive to cure these defects by work and suffering. The ordinary person is asleep, acting merely according to habit, and needs the shock of awakening. To this end he sponsored experiences of dance, exercise, hard labor, and sometimes surprises or acute frustration. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
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1974
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George Gurdjieff
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This is the work for Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am", the Third Book/Third Series of the All and Everything series. Please do not combine with the First and/or Second Book/Series, being respectively <... (show all)i>Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man and Meetings with Remarkable Men.

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