At the time he wrote Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, P.D. Ouspensky was already an acclaimed author and thinker, with such major works as Tertium Organum and The Fourth Dimension to his credit.  In Ivan Osokin, Ouspensky sets out to explore the idea of ‘eternal recurrence’, the theory that most humans are condemned to an infinite repetition of a single lifetime, making the same mistakes and facing the same triumphs and tragedies each time.The eponymous hero is a feckless youth, prone to pointless rebellion and easily bored.  He changes little as he grows to manhood, wasting his future, squandering his inheritance and losing the woman he loves.  In this parlous state, and contemplating suicide, Ivan Osokin meets a magician who agrees to send him back to attempt a conscious repetition of his life without mistakes, at the same time warning him that it will make not the slightest alteration to the outcome.  Undaunted, Ivan Osokin undergoes the ritual and relives his earlier existence – with a strange and unexpected result.

The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

OUSPENSKY, P.D.

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

The five works in this collection are an introduction for the lay reader, to the insights of the Russian thinker, P.D. Ouspensky. "Memory" teaches the reader how to attain "true self-consciousness" and appreciation of being alive. "Surface Personality" bids the reader to shed such superficialities and acquire a centre of gravity instead. "Self-Will", usually a recipe for disaster, is best replaced by mindfulness and responsibility. "Negative Emotions" can be destroyed, first by limiting them and then by getting to their roots. "Notes on Work" warns the reader of the commitment and self-discipline needed if one earnestly desires to change one's life.

Conscience: The Search for Truth

Religion & Spirituality

Our edition is a new format; large paperback 160 x 230 mm, printed on off-white quality paper. Text is the same setting and page numbering as original edition. In the same format we published also A RECORD OF MEETINGS.

A Further Record: Extracts from Meetings 1928-1945

A young Russian teacher is offered the chance to relive his schooldays and early manhood

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin: A Novel

Tertium Organum: The Third Canon Of Thought: A Key To The Enigmas Of The World

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Paperback; 8vo; 59 pages + advertisements; Arkana; First Thus; 1991; Minor rubbing and wear to spine & wraps; browning to edges of text; text unmarked.

Letters from Russia 1919

The collected transcripts of many lectures and meetings held by Ouspensky during the 1930s and 1940s deal with issues ranging from evolution, the will, the self, and religion to culture, thought, and intelligence.

A Record of Meetings: A Record of Some of Meetings Held by P.D. Ouspensky between 1930 and 1947

A record of Ouspensky's eight years of work as Georges Gurdjieff's pupil combines the logic of a mathematician with the vision of a mystic and stems from his quest for solutions to the problems of man and the universe

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching

New Age & Spirituality

Mariner Books

The Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky explains the author's philosophy of human behavior, and attempts to reconcile the natural sciences with the theological and spiritual beliefs developed by mankind. A bold and ambitious work of philosophy, Tertium Organum is a committed attempt to establish a new model of the universe from the perspective of humanity. Our individual reality and perceptions, the application and development of the sciences, and our relationship with the spiritual and the divine form background themes in what is often an intense and focused explanation of reality. The author does not stray to fanciful notions, but embarks and maintains a route of reasoned explanation after the style of the theosophical movement. P. D. Ouspensky was born in Russia and first worked at a newspaper in Moscow. World War I proved almost disastrous to his spiritual and professional life; the Tertium Organum, originally written and published in Russia, was assumed lost amid the conflict.

Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World, A Classic of Theosophy and the Occult (Hardcover)

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The Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky explains the author's philosophy of human behavior, and attempts to reconcile the natural sciences with the theological and spiritual beliefs developed by mankind. A bold and ambitious work of philosophy, Tertium Organum is a committed attempt to establish a new model of the universe from the perspective of humanity. Our individual reality and perceptions, the application and development of the sciences, and our relationship with the spiritual and the divine form background themes in what is often an intense and focused explanation of reality. The author does not stray to fanciful notions, but embarks and maintains a route of reasoned explanation after the style of the theosophical movement. P. D. Ouspensky was born in Russia and first worked at a newspaper in Moscow. World War I proved almost disastrous to his spiritual and professional life; the Tertium Organum, originally written and published in Russia, was assumed lost amid the conflict.

Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World, A Classic of Theosophy and the Occult

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