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New book by Madame de Salzmann
Endymion:
I just came across this on Amazon UK: The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff by Madame de Salzmann. It is published by Random House and will be on sale from 27 July. Here's the blurb:
--- Quote from: Random House --- As the closest pupil of the charismatic spiritual master G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949), Jeanne de Salzmann was charged with carrying on his teachings of spiritual transformation. Known as the Fourth Way or "the Work," Gurdjieff’s system was based on teachings of the East that he adapted for modern life in the West. Now, some twenty years after de Salzmann's death, the notebooks that she filled with her insights over a forty-year period (and intended to publish) have been translated and edited by a small group of her family and followers. The result is this long-awaited guide to Gurdjieff's teaching, describing the routes to be traveled and the landmarks encountered along the way. Organized according to themes, the chapters touch on all the important concepts and practices of the Work, including:
• awakening from the sleep of identification with the ordinary level of being
• self-observation and self-remembering
• conscious effort and voluntary suffering
• understanding symbolic concepts like the Enneagram
• the Gurdjieff Movements, bodily exercises that provide training in Presence and the awareness of subtle energies
• the necessity of a "school," meaning the collective practice of the teaching in a group
Madame de Salzmann brings to the Work her own strong, direct language and personal journey in learning to live that knowledge of a higher level of being, which, she insists, "you have to see for yourself" on a level beyond theory and concept. De Salzmann consistently refused to discuss the teaching in terms of ideas, for this Fourth Way is to be experienced, not simply thought or believed.
To learn more about the author, visit her website at Reality of Being
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And here is some info from www.realityofbeing.org :
--- Quote from: realityofbeing.org --- A Remarkable New Book
by Jeanne de Salzmann
Based on notebooks kept by G. I. Gurdjieff 's closest follower, this book offers new insight on his spiritual teaching—a way of gnosis or "knowledge of being" passed on from remote antiquity. It is a complete and uniquely authoritative guide to the great teacher's ideas and to his methods for liberating ourselves from the state of waking sleep in which most of us live our lives.
Gurdjieff respected traditional religious practices, which he regarded as falling into three general categories or ways: the Way of the Fakir, related to mastery of the physical body; the Way of the Monk, based on faith and feeling; and the Way of the Yogi, which focuses on development of the mind.
He presented his teaching as a Fourth Way which integrated these three aspects into a single path of self-knowledge. Progress in the Fourth Way comes through conscious effort toward a quality of thinking and feeling that brings a new capacity to see clearly and to love.
“Gurdjieff brought us a knowledge of consciousness, a science that shows what we are and our potential capacity, what needs to be developed. He came to bring a teaching, show a way toward consciousness."
Jeanne de Salzmann
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Looks very interesting, to say the least.
Argonaut:
Looks interesting, thanks! My "to-read" list has now grown. As if it weren't big enough already. :lol:
venusian:
If you go to Amazon's US site, you can click on "search inside this book" and read excerpts.
_http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Being-Fourth-Way-Gurdjieff/dp/1590308158/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278607653&sr=1-1
Nicolas:
I have already placed my order. :clap:
andi:
Endymion, thanks for the heads up ;)
--- Quote from: Argonaut on July 08, 2010, 06:43:56 PM ---Looks interesting, thanks! My "to-read" list has now grown. As if it weren't big enough already. :lol:
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I know what you mean. I look at the books I have to read and the ones that I have to re-read and it's a little overwhelming;
I would be curious to hear how you guys manage it. I personally take a long time to get through a book (specially the ones that are ''loaded''); I know that I can't just read it in a day or so, not necessarily because I read slow, witch I do, but because I have to stop every other page and think what is being said and if something does't make sens to me or I don't understand, then I have to stop and research a little to see if i can get anywhere and what usually happens is that I end up starting another book and so on...
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