Belcultassi found a few serious friends and founded a research society (Akhaldan) looking for a cure for the radical insanity of our being, in possession of three centres, and whose aim was to discover the “meaning and aim of existence”. Five groups were formed to carry out special research. Group two for example was concerned with introducing ‘measure’ into psychology. Thoughts vary in weight and rapidity, feelings vary in intensity, muscular movements vary in stresses.
To Be or Not to Be. There is a formula: Understanding = Knowledge + Being. (P.D. Ouspensky). Unfortunately, in the West, the concept of ‘being’ is at best misunderstood, or more usually simply unknown. A machine may have vast knowledge (AI for example), but cannot have ‘being’. ‘Being’ is uniquely Read more
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
Personality is all that is learned in one or another way, in ordinary language, ‘consciously’ or ‘unconsciously’. In most cases ‘unconsciously’ means by imitation which, as a matter of fact, plays a very important part in the building of personality. Even in instinctive functions, which naturally should be free from Read more