Show#82 - Who was Georges Gurdjieff? Interview with William Patrick Patterson
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I'm looking forward to it too.
I just listened to his video and must say I was rather astonished by the simple, direct and concise way he is conveying and merging together Gurdjieff and Castaneda´s teachings.
As I´ve been reading Castaneda´s books myself more than 20 years ago followed by 4th way teaching books, only after a long time did I come to understand how easy and maybe unfortunate it is for reader´s with an academic mind to end misguided by Castaneda´s particular "sorcerer´jargon" in his intent to describe mysterious unseen worlds. In any case, it may serve as some kind of alarm to all those readers who are feeling there is more to this world than what meets the eye.
Sure I won´t miss it either!
As I´ve been reading Castaneda´s books myself more than 20 years ago followed by 4th way teaching books, only after a long time did I come to understand how easy and maybe unfortunate it is for reader´s with an academic mind to end misguided by Castaneda´s particular "sorcerer´jargon" in his intent to describe mysterious unseen worlds. In any case, it may serve as some kind of alarm to all those readers who are feeling there is more to this world than what meets the eye.
Sure I won´t miss it either!
Minas Tirith
Jedi Council Member
Hmmmm ... This is what he wrote about Mouravieff:
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Not sure, but the Cs have mentioned Mouravieff more than Gurdjieff, esp. recently in connection to balancing the centers.
Not sure what he exactly means by this
Advaita is a Yogi-Way, so combining it with the Fourth might lead to mixing up of concepts...
Well, let's see!
M.T.
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Not sure, but the Cs have mentioned Mouravieff more than Gurdjieff, esp. recently in connection to balancing the centers.
Not sure what he exactly means by this
Advaita is a Yogi-Way, so combining it with the Fourth might lead to mixing up of concepts...
Well, let's see!
M.T.
Quote: Minas Tirith
My take on this after taking a quick look on Advaita yoga description. Advaita Yogi-way is mainly the study of non duality as opposed to our duality that stems from our compulsivity of over conceptualizing everything we perceive. Hence our illusion of separativity and linear thinking. The Advaita yogi-way promulgates that the observer and the observed are actually the same thing. From my experience I can say that whenever I judge myself instead of integrating any given process, what I´m doing is unwittingly conceptualizing that I should be this way and not another one, which is the same than affirming that whatever I feel, think, etc. has to be fought, without being aware that the shadow is also part of my psychic life.
I know what I´m saying is basic stuff, but within the context of mixing both teachings I´d rather think Advaita´s philosophy could be an excellent preparatory step towards the 4th Way since it may soften the controlling and indiscriminate way we are used to in fighting in our life at the expense of the Self.
My take on this after taking a quick look on Advaita yoga description. Advaita Yogi-way is mainly the study of non duality as opposed to our duality that stems from our compulsivity of over conceptualizing everything we perceive. Hence our illusion of separativity and linear thinking. The Advaita yogi-way promulgates that the observer and the observed are actually the same thing. From my experience I can say that whenever I judge myself instead of integrating any given process, what I´m doing is unwittingly conceptualizing that I should be this way and not another one, which is the same than affirming that whatever I feel, think, etc. has to be fought, without being aware that the shadow is also part of my psychic life.
I know what I´m saying is basic stuff, but within the context of mixing both teachings I´d rather think Advaita´s philosophy could be an excellent preparatory step towards the 4th Way since it may soften the controlling and indiscriminate way we are used to in fighting in our life at the expense of the Self.
