27.01.10

Gurdjieff the operator, spy or not…

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:44 pm by nemo

I had promised to review the ‘Gurdjieff the spy’ issue, but haven’t gotten around to it.
Whatever the case, the question of Gurdjieff’s authority is completely suspect. He acts very much like an undercover personage, the secrecy, public lying and deception, the Machiavellian tactics and moral indifference to using people.

We have compared Gurdjieff’s claims about ancient wisdom to those of Danielou, who suddenly makes the issues clear by putting them within the historical field, open to documentation and rebuttal. Gurdjieff, on the contrary, claims, without proof, to have a special knowledge, which he won’t reveal, instead treating us to bogus fictions that take time to expose, and which refer often to something unspecified, hence unfalsifiable.
There might well be an ancient wisdom, but nowhere has Gurdjieff been able to say what it was. Such nonsense as the enneagram strongly suggests that Gurdjieff is a complete idiot and that this vaunted ancient wisdom is garbage.

This whole game resembles the intelligence world, in a way. And we need to warn the gullible to be wary here. It is a dangerous sphere where guinea pigs can suffer grave spiritual damage at the hands of psychopaths, and the rising tide of imitators is making worse, witness the sphere of lunatics, dangerous lunatics, like e. j. Gold.

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