Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, the Teaching, His Mission [Hardcover] [Jan 06, 2014] Patterson, William Patrick

Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, the Teaching, His Mission

Biographies & Memoirs

William Patrick Patterson

Professionals & Academics

Arete Communications

January 19, 1970: I entered the esoteric teaching of The Fourth Way with Lord John Pentland, the man Mr. Gurdjieff had chosen to lead the Work in America. On April Fool's Day, 1980, I met Sunyata, given that name by Ramana Maharshi. Sunya said he had "Nothing to teach. Nothing to sell." Before his passing, he introduced me to Jean Klein, the Advaita Master, who said "Absence is the greatest presence." And so there I was with these teachers of No-Thing and Nothing. It reminded me of the Buddha's Parable of the Raft, where Buddha tells the monks, "Teachings are like a raft, and are for crossing over with - not for seizing hold of." With the "raft" laid down, there I was in the unknown, dying and not, thinking I was crazy, but relaxing deeper and deeper, moving from No-Thing to Nothing, the subject of subject-object perception falling away... If this speaks, then give it your attention, energy, time and, as Sunya said, "Bhagavan Sri Dollar." -- William Patrick Patterson 
Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing: Eating The "I" Parts II & III continues the journey begun in Eating The "I", "...one of the more important writings on the Gurdjieff Work, after Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous." --Miguel Serrano

Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing

The first critical assessment of the life of Adi Da Samraj and his teachings. Born he said in the "Bright" with his kundalini risen after only a few years of practice, Franklin Jones had a breakthrough into the pointless point of view. Young, hip, articulate and funny, this first American-born guru had a meteoric rise, bringing him thousands of seekers until the sex scandals brought a public shaming and his withdrawal to a Fijian island hermitage where he, now Adi Da Samraj, announced he was God Incarnate. CONTENTS Preface I In the Beginning II The Cult of Pairs &amp; the Saturday Night Massacre III Radical Shock Tactics &amp; "Divine Emergence" IV Sex Scandals, Naitauba &amp; Seventh Stage Realizer V The Last Days of Adi Da Samraj VI What Is Adi Da Samraj's Teaching? VII So Who Was Adi Da Samraj? Afterword Chronology References Appendices: Franklin Jones' Vedic Horoscope Franklin Jones &amp; Gertrude Stein The Myth of Narcissus Scott Jones' "The Outlaw Christs" Of Swami Muktananda &amp; Rudrananda G. I. Gurdjieff

Adi Da Samraj-Realized or/and Deluded?

Gurdjieff in Egypt: The Origin of Esoteric Knowledge - The Life & Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

Arete Video

2007 Expanded edition. Includes a gallery of 17 paintings depicting different stages in the journey. The search for one s real self is a sacred quest, an archetypal journey, whereby the seeker eats through the web of illusory "I's" that mask his or her real self-identity. In our times, this search has rarely been reported in such a candid and compelling manner as it is in William Patrick Patterson s book Eating the "I". Dispirited and disappointed in life, the author s life dramatically changes when he is introduced to the esoteric teachings of the Fourth Way - the way of transformation in ordinary life. Unique to this rich and practical teaching is its insistence that the student's negativity and confusion are the sources of his awakening. Life's shocks and uncertainty - that which he is most trying to avoid - are in fact that which can help him to awaken. Writing on many levels, and in the strong vibrant voice of a natural storyteller, Patterson describes his twelve-year search that takes him from secret meetings in a Manhattan townhouse, to the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, to Dublin and the Aran Islands, to England s Lake District and a medieval Scottish chapel, to his boarding of Allan Watt's S.S Vallejo and discovery of the "Holy Fool". Into his life come many memorable and powerful people: Trungpa, a Tibetan Master of Crazy Wisdom; Vali, a beautiful and enticing witch; Casey, a Jungian painter; and Stanley, an arch-adversary. Yet by far the most remarkable and unforgettable of all remains the man chosen by Gurdjieff to lead the Fourth Way in America, Lord John Pentland. Eating the "I" shows how the pressures, conflicts and uncertainties of the technological world actively serve our awakening. Life is used to come to Life.

Eating the I: A Direct Account of the Fourth Way- The Way of Using Ordinary Life to Come to Real Life (In Search of the Self), Revised & Expanded Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The seventh and final book in William Patrick Patterson's survey of The Fourth Way, Spiritual Survival warns of Technology's challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. Explored in great and original depth is how the seminal teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way - the teaching for our time - offers the esoteric keys and practices to self-awakening in a radically changing, high voltage and mercurial world-time.

Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time

Religion & Spirituality

The author's ninth book on the Work is a comprehensive and factual account of Gurdjieff and The Fourth Way. Material from all of Gurdjieff's direct students and their library archives, much of it not available until recently, is assembled in chronological form as it happened. The aim is to give an objective, panoramic view of Gurdjieff's life, the inner substance of the seminal and scientific teaching of self-development he discovered, and his unrelenting mission to introduce and establish this esoteric teaching in the West. Newly updated for this edition. Included are Uspenskii's (original Russian spelling) never-before-published essays "Why I Left Gurdjieff" and "Where I Diverge from Gurdjieff"; original deleted material from Search; Uspenskii's American femme fatale, Carman Barnes; Jessie Dwight Orage's short stories "Elsie at the Prieuré" and "Elsie and Allah"; notes of Kathryn Hulme and Solita Solano (1935-39); The Science of Idiotism, and the complete scenario of Gurdjieff's ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians.

Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, The Teaching, His Mission

The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda

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