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Loading... Meetings with Remarkable Men (original 1963; edition 1969)by G. I. Gurdjieff (Author)
Work InformationMeetings with Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff (1963)
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |  The rest of the sections are fantastic tales in themselves, and are very well told. This is why I give the book a four star rating. The writing style is much more accessible than the way that he wrote about Beelzebub's tales, and this is something that I like. I think that he made Beelzebub a bit too complex, that he made it complex for the sake of complexity. I cannot say that I learned much from the book, barring the section on his father and teacher. But, the book is a joyous ride indeed. It is the story of a life fully lived. ( )1  RajivC | Dec 7, 2013 | Gurdjieff notes the Gilgamesh epic discovered among this inventory, with its pre-Biblical flood. [33-36] He introduces and describes "kastousilia", the procedure of inventing questions and answers with logical plausibility but fanciful basis. "Where is God"? He is in Kamish. "What is he doing there?" He is making double latters so that on the tops of the tall pines he can fasten happiness, so that whole nations might ascend and reach it. [38] As for his father's business acumen -- "every business that my father carried on...always went wrong." There was a tendency in his nature: "an instinctive aversion to deriving personal advantage for himself from the naivete and bad luck of others". [47] keylawk | Dec 29, 2012 | ) sfisk | Sep 4, 2008 | Read in January, 1980 Gurdjieff vs Rasputin "...Rom Landau was one of the first to compare Gurdjieff to Rasputin. Describing a meeting with Gurdjieff, he explains: 'I had been specially careful not to look at Gurdjieff and not to allow him to look into my eyes...'" Time magazine once described Gurdjieff as "a remarkable blend of P.T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody's grandfather." ( )1 |  mimal | Sep 27, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive "read" in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on life, it is organized around portraits of remarkable men and women who aided Gurdjieff's search for hidden knowledge or accompanied him on his journeys in remote parts of the Near East and Central Asia. This is a book of lives, not doctrines, although readers will long value Gurdjieff's accounts of conversations with sages. Meetings conveys a haunting sense of what it means to live fully--with conscience, with purpose, and with heart. Among the remarkable individuals whom the reader will come to know are Gurdjieff's father (a traditional bard), a Russian prince dedicated to the search for Truth, a Christian missionary who entered a World Brotherhood deep in Asia, and a woman who escaped white slavery to become a trusted member of Gurdjieff's group of fellow seekers. Gurdjieff's account of their attitudes in the face of external challenges and in the search to understand the mysteries of life is the real substance of this classic work. No library descriptions found. |
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