Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am (Compass)
by G. I. Gurdjieff
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Author: G. I. GurdjieffEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-01
ISBN: 0140195858
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Diamond in the rough
Summary: 2 Stars
Another uncompleted master work! - where have we encountered this before? Plato's Timaeus, Edmund Spenser's Faeire Queene, James Joyce's projected (and unwritten) fourth major volume after Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell's Atlas of World Mythology... Are we detecting a pattern here - that authors procrastinate? Nevertheless, though "incomplete" this book is important reading for anyone interested in the Gurdjieff Work. For example, Gurdjieff gives a representative psychological exercise:
Pay attention to your right hand. Lay it flat. Begin to count to ten with one finger, while you observe the emotional state of a second finger, while simultaneously observing the physical sensations of a third. (What exactly *is* the emotional state of a finger, I still ask myself.)
The book's biography is interesting but Meetings with Remarkable Men is better in that regard, and Views from the Real World covers more psychological ground.
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