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Is it gay to look at bro to bro texts online cause ive never had a bro before?

my favorite book is the red book

>> No.11499045

>>11498987
Why are there so many sad sack piece of shit autistic /r9k/ lsoers on here?

>> No.11499066
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11499066

>gurdjieff
where do normies keep hearing about that fraud

>> No.11499074

>>11499066
Probably bill murray, he isn't a fraud if you aren't a brainlet

>> No.11499111

>>11499066
dummie

>> No.11499471

>>11499066
I have been unironically spamming Gurdjieff on this board for a while. He’s a great figure and needs to break into the public light.

>> No.11500633

>>11499066
John Zorn based an album off him I think. Same way I heard about Mount Analogue

>> No.11502559

only good thing about gurdjieff is his music

he is 100% certified counter-tradition

>> No.11502941

>>11502559
This, basically a slightly more interesting Blavatsky

>inb4 the Theosophy shill responds to this post with a long rant

>> No.11503019

>>11502941
yeah, both blavatsky and gurdji are full of shit, but gurdji is at least fun while blavatsky is tedious and pretentious

>> No.11503056

>>11502559
>>11502941
>>11503019
He introduced previously unknown esoteric Sufi/dervish and Tibetan Buddhist practices and psychological teachings to the West. As well as ancient Gnostic interpretations of Christianity. He gave legit esoteric info even if you don’t like him

>> No.11503161

>>11503056
>muh sekrit teachings never before revealed!
yeah, that's a pretty good marketing scheme. there's no such thing as "esoteric info". esoterism is "secret" because it is ineffable and inexpressible, not because people hide this or that piece of data. that's why only symbolism can express it, or rather give access to it.

>> No.11503232

>>11503161
Ummm no sweetie

The “stop technique”, the very clear description of the psychological fragmentation and sleep of man and the techniques of self-observation and self-remembering to allay it, the sacred dances/movements, body sensing techniques, keeping a degree of self-consciousness while getting drunk — he literally and simply brought Sufi and Buddhist practices not before well-known to the world at large and adapted them to a larger audience.

Yes, of course the real esoteric truths are beyond language and symbols. I’m speaking just on a lower level so it’s easier to understand.

>> No.11504052

Bumping for Gurdjieff/this book discussion