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In Search of the Miraculous (Harvest Book) by P. D. Ouspensky
Book Summary InformationAuthor: P. D. Ouspensky Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2001-09-28 ISBN: 0156007460 Number of pages: 399 Publisher: Mariner Books Product features: - ISBN13: 9780156007467
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Book Reviews of In Search of the Miraculous (Harvest Book)Book Review: What Ouspensky and Gurdjieff said Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a "Work" group for more than 20 years. Without giving away to much I can say this:
I am sorry to say that you can ignore most of the reviews here because the were written by readers who did not really understand what they read, or did not receive training exercises to see what parts they read were important. How to create the possibility of change. This is a difficult book but a very rewarding one.
The key principles Ouspensky learned from Gurdjieff are:
* we are asleep (or perhaps a better word is "hypnotized" in varying degrees) all the time. We do not perceive ourselves or the world as it is.
* our negative habits make us machines who can under most circumstances NEVER change, but only dream and imagine change.
* we imagine we can DO things (like change ourselves and our lives, effect events, the world) but in fact, we only can react to external events. We imagine we have Will but we have no Will. No Will but self-will.
* we imagine we have one distinct Self, but in fact, we have a variety of selves, (or Mini-selves) like short-lived computer programs that take us over and run our machine selves for a few minutes and then vanish. For example, One self buys that shiny new car that satisfies their ego and self-images about what a cool guy (or girl) we are (an image created by the car company with which we Identify), another self is left with five years of car payments.
This book provides some ideas, some of it is fool-traps. Most here is deeply profound. The only way to become "Awake", to "Self-Remember", to not "Identify" and not "Inner Consider", etc., is to first read the book, repeatedly, and then find a local "Work" group who will give you the exercises, to achieve results, which are missing from here. One need to observe oneself, then understand our mechanical tendencies, then deliberately throw a monkey wrench in the machinery, and stop our habits and habitual ways of seeing the world. "Work" is required, work on oneself. Tough stuff. Forces us to take a hard look at ourselves. Not New-Agey Casteneda imaginings, the real thing. This book can, when properly read and understood, grow your Essence.
This is an introduction. The best one to a difficult subject. A rewarding but much more difficult book is Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandchildren" which was written to contain the ideas but also to discourage the idly curious, and is full of neologisms (Gurjieff's superlong made-up words to illustrate his obtruse points.)
If you have any doubt that you, that we are ALL, in varying degrees, asleep, observe the world around you, observe TV. Observe movies. Observe people who think the world can be improved by violence.
Observe the people who are running America. Or the world, for that matter.
It is only those who understand they are asleep who have any chance of awakening.
Summary of In Search of the Miraculous (Harvest Book)A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal view. This historic and influential work is considered by many to be a primer of mystical thought as expressed through the Work, a combination of Eastern philosophies that had for centuries been passed on orally from teacher to student. Gurdjieff's goal, to introduce the Work to the West, attracted many students, among them Ouspensky, an established mathematician, journalist, and, with the publication of In Search of the Miraculous, an eloquent and persuasive proselyte.
Ouspensky describes Gurdjieff's teachings in fascinating and accessible detail, providing what has proven to be a stellar introduction to the universal view of both student and teacher. It goes without saying that In Search of the Miraculous has inspired great thinkers and writers of ensuing spiritual movements, including Marianne Williamson, the highly acclaimed author of A Return to Love and Illuminata. In a new and never-before-published foreword, Williamson shares the influence of Ouspensky's book and Gurdjieff's teachings on the New Thought movement and her own life, providing a contemporary look at an already timeless classic.
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