Debriefing the Gurdjieff work
http://www.redfortyeight.com/2009/04/24/blaut-modernism-the-european-miracle/
One of the key fallacies of the Gurdjieff work is the misunderstanding of the rise of the modern world. We can intersect with a parallel discussion from another blog.
It is a long discussion.
But the attempt to destroy modernity and secularism is latent in Gurdjieff’s cockeyed history.
Eating The “I”: A Direct Account of The Fourth Way—
The Way of Using Ordinary Life to Come to Real Life
by William Patrick Patterson
I am normally a casual sort, but with the phrase ‘eating the I’ in connection with creepy Gurdjieffians, I snap too, alert, looking over my shoulder.
Patterson is a polished sort of ‘sucker’, they are not born every minute, but still…
I can’t give the sick joke away (maybe the joke’s on Patternson), but I will say, make sure you find the stuff on ‘trogoautoegocrat’ in the Gurdjieff grimoire, and from there on in/out, ask yourself why Gurdjieff is incapable and unwilling to become a vegetarian.
Poor Patterson.
I had written, quite a while ago, a critical review of the enneagram material, in an Amazon review of Patterson’s book on the subject, Taking with the Left Hand. Patterson got it half right: the enneagram craze has produced hopeless nonsense. But he got the next part wrong, as he drew up a moat around the ‘official’ version in Ouspensky (and Gurdjieff).
I fear that is nonsense too.
Anyway I was surprised to see the review removed. He must have agitated with Amazon.
A pity: people need a jolt to snap out of the enneagram fixation.
Migration complete, so we can get back to some new discussions!
This site is going to be moving: you won’t notice anything, unless it is a brief site suspension as the blog’s domain is migrated.
I am not sure when this will happen, but soon.
After that we can start up again with daily postings, perhaps a new blog appearance, and some more interesting explorations. I have paused for a breather, having done a first tiny bit of what I originally intended, and am getting good response still over the legacy files here (partly my purpose), so maybe we got something right. Word is spreading: no reader who picks up Ouspensky should be subject to the ambush by Gurdjieffians based on his suggestibility and fear, the prime tactic of exploiters. And Gurdjieff was one of the most subtle exploiters.
I hope this will be the last generation of Gurdjieff suckers taken for a ride by the whole phoney tradition, and by those such as E.J. Gold et al who are moving into this vacuum to create their own dangerous schemes.
Who kidnapped Armstrong?
Cult members aren’t the only ones at risk around rogue sufism
Discussion of Bennett, and Kaluza/Klein continues at Darwinina: http://darwiniana.com/2009/04/03/kaluzaklein-and-models-of-consciousness/
James said,
03.04.09 at 12:05 am
It looks like the Klein-Kaluza theory is being revived by a parapsychologist. I wouldn’t take any of this too seriously, but, based on the excerpts, it looks like an interesting effort nonetheless:
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2009/03/killing-me-softly-part-one.htmlhttp://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2009/03/killing-me-softly-part-two.html
Actually the rise of string theory has taken up when Kaluza/Klein left off