Orage said: “Remember how you listened to stories you heard when you were a child, so that you participated, your hair stood on end and your eyes shone, or you wept? That is reading with all three centres, and Gurdjieff would hope that reading ‘All and Everything’ could be of that order.
The difference between a child’s appreciation and that necessary for reading A&E is that it requires a developed psyche to really sympathize with the characters of the book.”
In the years preceding 1920, one of gurdjieff’s pupils, A.R. Orage, had formed a group of practicing psychologists to study psychoanalysis from all sides. This group, which included Dr. Maurice Nicoll – one of Jung’s foremost exponents, reached the conclusion that the need in psychology was not psychoanalysis but psycho-synthesis. In 1920, P.D. Ouspensky, Read more
At the age of 21, Orage obtained a post at the Leeds Board School, and for the next ten years taught children of various ages. This, he claimed, was an excellent preparation for his later teaching of adults. In the true sense an educator, he was able to draw people Read more