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Quotes and studies of #Gurdjieff's writings and talks, and those of his immediate pupils. Focussing especially on medicine, hypnotism and consciousness. https://journalgurdjieffstudies.substack.com

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · Feb 18

The journal newsletter "Gurdjieff Studies" is especially occupied with two major strands:

1. Everything related to what could be called "Gurdjieff's Medicine."

2. Hypnosis, magnetism, & consciousness.

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Journal of Gurdjieff Studies | Till Spiegel | Substack

Exploring Gurdjieff's writings and talks, and those of his immediate pupils. Click to read Journal of Gurdjieff Studies, by Till Spiegel, a Substack publication.

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 1d

"Every triad, every conjunction of three forces, can give rise to another triad and under right conditions a chain of triads results. It is always from the Neutralizing Force – that is, the 3rd Force – that a new triad springs."

(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries," Vol.I, p.109)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 2d

"The moment of receiving an impression is the moment of becoming conscious. It is the act of seeing."

(Jeanne de Salzmann)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 3d

"…for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere."

(Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 3d

"According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary…"

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Fragments, Chapter 4, pp.77-81 Reading Club posting 15

On the next occasion we had very many questions chiefly about the influences of the various worlds and why the influence of the Absolute does not reach us.

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 4d

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The Periods of Human Life

Childhood, Youth, Maturity and Old Age

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 4d

...There is also the reminder of “economising experiences” and regulating the unwinding of the “springs” of the centres, so that energy is not wasted, to prevent premature old age and to prepare for “a happy old age.”

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 4d

...Why might it be important for us to be aware of what these periods consist?

Regarding old age, pondering upon and preparing for its possibilities and constraints beforehand can help in their fulfilment and their working with at the time...

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 4d

Drawing an outline of those timings, periods and events in human life that seem significant in Gurdjieff’s writings and talks, the following categories can first of all be envisaged:

Conception – birth – childhood – youth – maturity – old age – death ...

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 7d

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(85.) Maurice Nicoll 1 - Cosmology - p.345-8

The word cosmos, which means order, was first applied to the Universe by the Pythagorean School from which all European science was derived.

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 7d

"...You know that this Work can only begin with those who have Magnetic Centre—i.e. who are convinced that there is something higher than themselves. How can you expect to reach anything higher in yourself if you do not believe that anything higher exists?"

(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries")

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 7d

And at the same time by studying the world and the laws that govern the world he will learn and understand the laws that govern him."

(Gurdjieff in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky, p.75)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 7d

"Man is an image of the world. He was created by the same laws which created the whole of the world. By knowing and understanding himself he will know and understand the whole world, all the laws that create and govern the world..."

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 8d

"...The whole of this work is about a change of being—that is, a change of the level of being at which a man naturally is—in ordinary life."

(Maurice Nicoll)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 8d

"…It is useless to think that wars and horrors and revolutions, etc., are exceptional. What is at fault is the level of being of people..."

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 8d

" '…the level of being of a man attracts his life'. This saying applies to humanity in general—that is, the general level of humanity with regard to its being attracts the form of life that it experiences…"

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 9d

"I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower."

(Jeanne de Salzmann)

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 10d

"…how varied and contradictory, and, above all, how concealed and unnoticeable even to the speaker himself are the meanings and the shades of meaning created by habitual associations that can be put into a word."

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Fragments, Chapter 4, pp.72-7 - Reading Club posting 14

"The division of man into seven categories, or seven numbers, explains thousands of things which otherwise cannot be understood. This division gives the first conception of relativity as applied to ma...

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 11d

It is striking that, as I understand it, the “divergence between the line of knowledge and the line of being,” and the subsequent lack of means to understanding, is said by Gurdjieff to be caused, among other things, by inexact language.

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A New Principle of Language

Making an impossible idea practical

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12d

Gurdjieff seems to lay great stress on the exactness of language that is necessary for real communication, and on a "new principle" of relativity. Yet what is this principle really all about?

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Exact and Inexact

Gurdjieff apparently lays great stress on the exactness of language that is necessary for real communication, and on a new principle of relativity. Yet what is this principle really all about?

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12d

"...in moments of self-remembering and work on oneself. When a man sees both into himself and into the object, or sees himself and the other person simultaneously, then the results of this higher psychic activity form associations of their own class."

(Maurice Nicoll)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12d

"...But if a man labours at learning something and uses his directed attention, then voluntarily formed associations are laid down in him.

"The third class of associations is formed, briefly speaking...

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 12d

"Briefly speaking, all education is to lay down associations that are voluntarily formed, but these are not necessarily so formed. They may be partly laid down unconsciously—that is, involuntarily formed..."

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Categories of Associations

Further exploration of the bed on which one reposes

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Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 13d

(Gurdjieff speaking in "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky, p.68)

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 13d

"…And the chief thing is that, owing to the…vagueness and inaccuracy [of ordinary thinking], every word can have thousands of different meanings according to the material the speaker has at his disposal and the complex of associations at work in him at the moment."

Gurdjieff Studies @gurdjieffstudies.bsky.social · 13d

"…the language which people speak…is full of wrong concepts, wrong classifications, wrong associations…"

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Fragments, Chapter 4, pp.68-72 - Reading Club posting 13

"One of the reasons for the divergence between the line of knowledge and the line of being in life, and the lack of understanding which is partly the cause and partly the effect of this divergence, is...

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