Beelzebub's tales to his grandson

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• carapace · Jan 19, 2020 · Recommends

  "Neurospeak" by Robert Masters A psychoactive book, science-based (YMMV). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897536.Neurospeak - - - - Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" Impossible to categorize, incredibly challenging. Gurdjieff was a genius on the level of Leonardo da Vinci, but where Leonardo studied the outer world, Gurdjieff studied the inner world. This three-volume…

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• artificialLimbs · Dec 13, 2018 · Recommends

  I see no mention of Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" here, so here is mention. The entire book is an tour de force of long and complicated sentenceness.

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• kundi · Dec 18, 2021 · Recommends

  For your fellow American and other westerners to possibly shine some light onto “the human kernel”, as developers would say. Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by George Guerdjieff

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• tanepiper · Jul 3, 2024 · Recommends

  You word my position here too. 20's - a rabid Dawkins reading Athiest. 40's - I think Dawkins is an idiot and my favourite book is "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"

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• qwerty456127 · Jan 19, 2020 · Critical

  I've read a portion of Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" and found it boring. Perhaps it would get interesting if I read more. But now I'm reading "the fourth way" by Peter Ouspensky, the most famous (if we don't count Joseph Stalin) of his students and find…

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• DonGateley · Jan 27, 2014 · Mentions

  Hugely surprised to see Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on the list. Gurdjieff is the modern father of mindfulness. Of course he borrowed it from the Buddha but in his time the Buddha wasn't much in vogue in the west. Shocked…

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• carapace · May 11, 2018 · Mentions

  "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" G. I. Gurdjieff This is not an easy book. It's not really a book in the traditional sense. It was written: "To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings…

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• torus · Jan 26, 2014 · Critical

  "Beelzebub's tales to his grandson" is probably the only book I've found that I really, really, couldn't read. I'd love to know what it means though.

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• vinceguidry · Nov 1, 2019 · Critical

  …could rely on my ability to remember such things at the time in which I need to remember them. PDF link follows, however not the one I used. I personally read the first few chapters of his first book, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, which is an impossibly dense read that communicates a stupidly simple message. http://www.gurdjiefffourthway.org/pdf/SELF-REMEMBERING.pdf

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• carapace · Oct 4, 2019 · Mentions

  IIRC "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson". It's not verbatim.

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• carapace · May 1, 2020 · Mentions

  …sci-fi extended universe in order to grasp the cause behind the central tenet of the Fourth Way: that man is asleep. Yes and no. His opus "All and Everything" is comprised of three volumes. The first "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" (itself divided into three volumes) is the part that is couched as a kind of autobiographical reminiscences of an alien, Beelzebub, to his grandson on the occasion of his pardon and reprieve from exile…

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