About this title: In the years from was 1915 to 1918, the mystic G.I. Gurdjieff was well known in Russian intellectual circles but not outside them. That would change when this book's author, a wandering, post-WWI truth-seeker named Ouspensky, tracked him down. Gurdjieff's philosophy, a form of secretive Eastern spirituality known as "the Fourth Way," claims to ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: A Harvest Book
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and World
Date Published: 1949
ISBN-13:9780156445085ISBN:0156445085
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine is cracked in one place. 399 p. Green and white paperback. This picture of the cover doesn't look like the one I have. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Date Published: 1949
ISBN-13:9780156445085ISBN:0156445085
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight binding with clean text. Cover is worn around edges. Has remainder marks. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Harvest Book. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Arkana, London
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9781850630906ISBN:1850630909
Description: Fair. Heavy creasing to and along spine. Heavycorner wear. One page in the contents section has the corner torn off affecting only the first two lines. Unmarked pages. read more
Description: Fine. Read once, gently. Still looks almost new! Cover is super glossy & clean-lies flat. Spine is UNcreased-tight & square. Pages are tight, clean, straight, & unmarked. A3c. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780156445085ISBN:0156445085
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ink mark at top front cover. Book clean, tight, minimal use. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Harvest Book. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Octavo 6.5" x 9.5" [D-Phil]. Eighth printing. 399 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dustwrapper. Moderate shelf-wear, the dustwrapper edges rubbed, the spine faded; occasional very neat underlining. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
Date Published: (1964)
Description: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine and corners of wrappers. 1 1/4" tear at tail of front panel of dust wrapper. 1/4" tear at head of dust wrapper spine.; xi, [1], 399 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 235mm x 147mm.; 8vo. read more
"This is an extraordinary mind-altering book, if you allow it to be.
You cannot truly understand G.'s teachings from your own perspective. You have to see it from the perspective that G. wants you to see it from. You have to relinquish your current thinking and surrender to his view, then you can see the truth that lies behind the illusions..."
"The remarks about Many "i"s below were elicited in part from a recent re-reading of Ouspensky's "In Search of the Miraculous."
From a literary view point, I noticed his fore shadowing of the publication of the discussions in his "Fourth Way." He said he would discuss the details of the centers that he had learned from Gurdjieff later."
"got to page 180 & then returned it to the library. I'm not sure what I think about this book. It was written in a time before a lot of discoveries in modern science and psychology. At times I found myself being really into it and other times I thought it seemed totally ridiculous. I put it down, not because I didn't feel like reading any further, but because it was due back to the library. If nothing else it's helped me look at myself more psycho-analytically. I might pick it up again someday and finish it. It's definitely not light reading, and I kind of felt like I had to be in the right environment to focus on it."
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