Meetings with remarkable men
by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Nathalie De Salzmann de Etievan · first published 1960
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Story of Gurdjieff's search through the Middle East and Central Asia for an esoteric brotherhood thought to hold answers to the meaning of life.
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on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗…Gurdjieff but deviates from it. But I would bet a lot of HN readers would dig Gurdjieff. If you're into absurdist new age stuff, it's a precursor to things like Discordianism, but def with more woo. Meetings with Remarkable Men is a great book, though I doubt much of it is true it paints a really colorful picture of the time period. In Search of the Miraculous is also a great book, but I think the author was jaded and a bit…
on “The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram” ↗Okay, so I don't really understand what you're saying, but let me take a stab at it. Somebody named GI Gurdjieff wrote a book "Meetings with Remarkable Men" in 1923, and in that book there was a kind of story in the introduction. That story attempted to distnguish between two different ways of life: a Western, "knowing" way and an Eastern "being" way. The…
on “The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)” ↗…Werther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther The Catcher in the Rye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye The Outsider https://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/0874772060 Meetings With Remarkable Men https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3064956-meetings-with-re... On the road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road Fight Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club Naked Lunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch…
on “Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind a cult novel” ↗