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22093359 No.22093359 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone read all of it?
Is it too schizo for anyone to actually understand or is it worth the read?

>> No.22093585

Nobody on /lit/ has read it sadly

>> No.22093641

>>22093359
From the wikipedia article alone it sounds incredibly schizo

>> No.22093654

>>22093359
I’ve always been interested in Gurdjieff so I’ll try to keep this bumped in the off chance someone who read him happens to pass by

>> No.22093662

>>22093359
I can’t imagine it would be worth your time

>> No.22093668

>>22093662
Why?

>> No.22093683

>>22093668
I take it back

>> No.22093696

>>22093359
Seemed like drunken meanderings to me.

>> No.22093720

>>22093654
Try reading "Glimpses of Truth" in the collection Views from the Real World. Or just read Ouspensky.

Here is Evola on Gurdjieff:
https://counter-currents.com/2011/08/mr-gurdjieff/

I also recommend Colin Wilson's short book on him, a very good overview. He had a tremendous influence on Wilson's phenomenology.

>> No.22094190

Currently near page 1000. Been picking it up and reading sporadically for almost a year. Gurdjieff states at the beginning to read in 3 times. Yes it's mainly incomprehensible but fascinating and strangely addictive when you get into it.

>> No.22094349

>>22094190
This book gets posted here from time to time, I think it is time to actually review it.

>> No.22094421

>>22093720
Have you ever read Meetings With Remarkable Men?

>> No.22094480

>>22093720
Thanks for the article

>> No.22095850

Bump

>> No.22096199

>>22094349

I hope to finish it within the next couple of weeks. Its not really a book you can 'review' but I will write about it when I have the time. Honestly, you simply have to just get through the book first time around before you can even begin to try and unpick it with further readings. Gurdjieff stated this in the intro, that only on the 3rd reading should you "try to fathom the gist" of it. I've never read Joyce but it's perhaps a similar approach.

There was another Gurdjieff poster around here a while back. Maybe he can chip in if he sees this thread. Gurdjieff rarely gets discussed here or on /x/ which might be a more appropriate board. There is a misguided perception of him I think and in terms of 'Beelzebub', anyone who has no context of who G was and what his aims were will likely be filtered very quickly. And that was absolutely his intention.

>> No.22096202

>>22093359
its not that schizo at all. its just written in such a way that it is supposed to force you to engage in a different way of thinking. it doesnt state everything in plain text, but rather conveys some ideas through unusual literary techniques that force a reaction from the reader. there are previous authors who have done the same thing, like shklovsky or deleuze.