Higher Being Bodies constitutes a veritable guide or manual for the development of spiritual consciousness. The author, Ocke de Boer presents his own, and very personal, understanding in a manner that encourages his reader to follow the same path. He brings a broad understanding of sources and analogues to Gurdjieff's teaching including Gurdjieff's Eastern sources in Hinduism, Buddhism and Christian thought. His alignment of Plato's allegory of the cave with Gurdjieff's description of the illusions of truth that are stereotypical to man is graphically illustrated. For Ocke, Plato allegory reflects "man in chains."The order of presentation leads the reader clearly from definitions (such as higher being bodies, A, B and C influences, senses, feelings, thought and mind) to practical directions for self-work (conscious labor and intentional suffering, purifying thought and emotion) all of which culminate in Unity Thinking. This path is accomplished through thresholds of self-awareness. Along the way Ocke makes important observations about the human body, thought and behavior. Early on his way, he repeats in a fresh manner Gurdjieff's important contention that truth is often delivered by a lie. This remark is part of an instruction on role-playing. His comparison of one's "it" from his "I" is illustrated with the perspectives of Jane Heap and Jessie Orage. For Ocke, "it" senses while "I" feels. Ocke's description of man's seven states of being is an optimistic view of his reader's possibility to lift the self to a higher level. He encourages his reader by assuring him that he already has extraordinary possibilities in his nature. He explains the nature of negative emotions and the dangers of dualistic thinking; mistaking a fly for an elephant, or oneself for God. He avoids the scientific jargon that tends to obscure Gurdjieff s teachings in other works. Yet he treats the views of other Fourth Way writers with respect and understanding. In a many ways, he clarifies much that others have written.  Ocke proclaims; "Absence of joy is slow suicide." Nothing could stir one's appetite to work on one s self more than this statement. The book contains many other straightforward, yet personal, aphorisms that speak well to the reader who is not deeply familiar with Gurdjieff's language. For example, Ocke suggests how to put meat on the skeleton of consciousness. He aims to free his reader from the prison of identification. He contrasts the head brain's radiation with the heart brain's emanation. He tells us the difference between inner and outer memory. This is a book written by one who knows and cares for those who care, but do not know yet how to work on themselves.

Higher Being Bodies: A Non-Dualistic Approach to the Fourth Way, with Hope

Religion & Spirituality

Ocke de Boer

Occult & Paranormal

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This title presents the synopsis of Gurdjieff s planned ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians, which was edited from two extant manuscripts by David Kherdian. In 1914 a notice for the Struggle of the Magicians appeared in a Russian newspaper. It was aptly subtitled "Scenario of the Ballet," for it was never performed. In this surreptitious manner Gurdjieff had just taken the first steps in the founding of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. The ballet would never be performed but it would figure prominently in the lives of his pupils for some time to come. Although there has been a great deal of speculation about this ballet, there has been no consensus as to how it was written, why it was written or by whom it was finally committed to paper. Nor do we know if Gurdjieff ever "wrote" it out himself, and if he did, what language he composed it in. In fact, none of this is important. What matters is that the text was preserved, and for those of us who were not there to receive the teaching from the Master, a different link is now created, and reading the words we are connected again to the man who gave us so much for he was, and continues to be, our example and our teacher. Cover art by Nonny Hogrogian.

The Struggle of the Magicians: Scenario of the Ballet

G.I. Gurdjieff

This volume presents choice selections from Stopinder, David Kher¬dian's original, groundbreaking "Gurdjieff Journal for our Time." Stopinder was brought into existence by a need which came from beyond any of the participants, for a forum where the second-genera¬tion of what we might call the Gurdjieff tradition (Beelzebub's grandchildren) could show and share. This current from the beyond enriched them as they voluntarily offered and conformed their efforts in service of this on-sweeping, magisterial demand for conscious contemporary manifestation, adapted to the needs of a person, time and place. Contributing Authors to this volume include: Joseph Azize, Harry Bennett, Anthony Blake, Steve Brault, Pierce Butler, Keith Buzzell, Kamori Cattadoris, Jean Cavendish, Wim Van Dulleman, Bob Engel, Seymour Ginsberg, Irv Givot, Jane Madeline Gold, Jim Gomez, Marvin Grossman, Nonny Hogrogian Kherdian, David Kherdian, Barrett McMaugh, Will Mesa, Ed Pejack, Lynn Quirolo, DeWayne Rail, Allen Roth, John Scullion, Bob Silber, Toddy Smyth, Kristina Turner, Sophia Wellbeloved, John Anthony West.

A Stopinder Anthology

David Kherdian

Biographies & Memoirs

MY LIFE WITH MR. BEELZEBUB, in addition to being a penetrating study of Gurdjieff's opus, is the story of one man's immersion into the tales of Beelzebub and how this gave a direction to his life and brought him into the Work. Mesa presents us first with his life lessons and leanings, and then demonstrates in penetrating detail, how he was able to apply all that he had learned from this book. In personalizing his study in this way, he reveals his growth of self as the result of plumbing the depths in Beelzebub s Tales, through which he came to understand himself in accordance with the objective truths and governing laws of our life on Earth. And this of course was Gurdjieff's intention: that the material of one's life becomes the food for the transubstantiation of one's Being. The book is written in a simple language, without pretentions of being an encyclopedic work. It reflects the experience of Mesa as shown in the chapter An experiment extracted from Beelzebub s Tales. Mesa uses the factual language of engineering, as he is an engineer by trade, to convey his message. This book is highly recommended for those who want to use Beelzebub s Tales in their own search for the meaning of life on Earth.

My Life with Mr. Beelzebub

Will Mesa

Lawyer, priest and author Joseph Azize presents a concise manual of how to spot a fraud, both within our own selves and among our friends, family, and those with whom we may have business dealings. He discusses the many behavioral manifestations of various types of fraudsters and lays bare their methods and styles, their many modus operandi. In this title, the reader will find how talk and chatter are used to persuade, how cleverly diverting blame buys trust, how baseless cynicism and resentment fuel our own vulnerabilities to fall victim to fraud. Sometimes serious, sometimes witty, but always with deep insight, this book is an invaluable aid to both spotting fraudulent behavior in others, but perhaps more importantly, recognizing our inner propensities to fool ourselves. Those readers who are also members of the Fourth Way community will recognize the many tips and suggestions given by Azize can be applied with acumen to their practice of self-observation.

How to Spot a Fraud

Joseph Azize

Health, Fitness & Dieting

John Lennon: Harmony Out of Pain was written for people who both love enough of John Lennon's music to care about its maker, and also feel that there is something deep at work within themselves, that there is something sublime to be learned about ourselves and the world. While many books have been written about Lennon, this is the first time someone has looked at Lennon from the inside. As Joseph Azize works through the various themes in the book, he arrives at an objective look at an extremely complicated man. As John Lennon found his way towards being a Normal Man certainly one who has had an impact on the entire world and extraordinary in that manner inside he struggled like anyone else with his demons and angels and fought the good fight, just as Jacob wrestled all through the night ending up with a broken hip and a promise. John Lennon also ended up scarred and wounded, but whole. While there are many books about John Lennon which are really just jingoism and gossip the dish and the dirt this book is about John Lennon in the light of the Gurdjieff Work. Although Lennon was probably not a student of G.I. Gurdjieff or his ideas, the course of his life until his untimely death is ripe with material for pondering his state of being during those times. Those readers who do not know anything about the Fourth Way Gurdjieff s path in life will be amply rewarded by reading this book, and those who take a serious interest in Mr. Lennon s work will also be amply rewarded by sharing the insights of the author who truly has a genuine and heartfelt love for Lennon s music.

John Lennon: Harmony Out of Pain

Donna Marie Merritt s fifth book of poetry began with an encounter with a homeless man and ended with new poems which have been described as drops of conscience. In We Walk Together, Merritt blurs the boundaries between self and other. Merritt s work radiates empathy and compassion. Her poems feature troubled (and troublesome) students, homeless people, mothers and wives, individuals of all kinds in moments of panic or confusion. Deeply human and humane, these poems provide a glimmer of hope in a world buffeted with disheartening news. Donna Marie shines her poetic light on social ills, white privilege, and the disadvantaged, but her accessible and direct language uncovers the heart and dreams of her subjects, offering up the possibility of a better world.

We Walk Together: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Donna Marie Merritt

Poetry

Secrets of The Fourth Way is a collage of memoirs, reflections, commentaries, personal insights and exercises, invaluable to students of G.I. Gurdjieff s teachings, written by Alan Francis, the founder of the Oregon Gurdjieff Foundation and Moscow Gurdjieff Group. Francis spent many years seeking out individuals who were personally acquainted with Gurdjieff for the purpose of receiving answers to the many questions that had haunted him on his own spiritual journey. These questions may be summarized: What was, in the opinion of those who knew Gurdjieff, the most important idea, method, form, direction, meaning, and how did they weight them? What was the sense and aim of this Work? Why does it, and why should it, continue to exist? What is, as Michel de Salzmann asked, the "specificity of the Work?" What does the Work touch and develop that the many other teachings do not? The author of this title, Alan Francis generously supplies the reader with the answers he received to these questions. In addition to traditional Fourth Way teachings and methods, Mr. Francis draws on his earlier experiences with other traditions, including Taoist studies and Taoist healing. In this respect, his Handbook on Energy Pathways and the Higher Being Bodies of Man is an invaluable guide to understanding human metamorphosis. Other chapters are devoted to various Enneagram studies and insights regarding Gurdjieff s written work and Movements, and several fresh explorations of lesser known Gurdjieffian teachings on topics such as organic barriers, sacrifice and addiction.

Secrets of the Fourth Way

Alan Francis

In 1922, the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield was on the verge of literary celebrity. She was the friend of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, and her remarkable stories were changing the way people thought about the form. But she was also deeply unhappy in her marriage to John Middleton Murry and she was dying of tuberculosis. When she abandoned the nomadic life of an invalid in search of the ideal climate and put herself in the hands of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, she was taking a step into the unknown. A mystic of Greek and Armenian parentage, Gurdjieff had traveled extensively among esoteric communities in the East before he fled the Revolution in Russia and established himself as a teacher in France. His Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man occupied the Prieuré de Basse Loges, a magnificent chateau in the woods of Fontainebleau. When Katherine Mansfield left Paris to live at the Prieuré, she ceased to write in her celebrated Journal. Taking up where the Journal leaves off, A Child of the Sun follows the course of Mansfield's inner life at the Prieuré, recounting her meetings with the remarkable people who had gathered about Gurdjieff: the editor and critic Alfred Orage; Olgivanna Hinzenberg, future wife of Frank Lloyd Wright; P. D. Ouspensky, whose books introduced Gurdjieff to the West. Mansfield is at first put off by Gurdjieff's rough and ready manner, and his offhand treatment of his students. But as her understanding of his method grows and as her physical condition deteriorates she experiences his great compassion and perceives the possibility of attaining the inner freedom that has eluded her throughout her life.

A Child of the Sun

Pierce Butler

Genre Fiction

This chapbook is a 36 page Index prepared by professional indexer, Pierce Butler. Professor Butler has studied and practiced the Gurdjieff Teaching for over 30 years. In creating the index for Gurdjieff's 1,238 page book, he draws upon 40 years' experience as a professional indexer. The index works with the Penguin/Arkana single-volume paperback edition of Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson (1999) which was based on the original 1950 Harcourt, Brace text (with typographical corrections and the addition of two missing paragraphs). It can also be used with the Two Rivers Press edition of 1993 (a facsimile reproduction of the original 1950 edition) with allowance for minor discrepancies in the page references for Chapter 32, "Hypnotism," in Book II (pp. 558-578) on account of the missing paragraphs on page 568. Many, if not most, of the non-English words used in Tales, are included on the grounds that this communicates the flavor (if not the sense) of the text. There are a number of summary entries (Transformation of cosmic substances; Vibrations) that draw together various thematically related parts of the text in their lists of sub-entries. The Index is of primary interest to students of The Fourth Way who have read and studied or are concurrently reading G.I. Gurdjieff s Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson.

An Index for G.I. Gurdjieff s All and Everything First Series: Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson

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