In Search of the Miraculous: The Definitive Exploration of G. I. Gurdjieff's Mystical Thought and Universal View (Harvest Book)

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Indeed it should be required reading for all politicians as it gives hundreds of examples of the ways (both aesthetic and medical) in which the natural world can help mankind and the inestimable losses we are facing by our destructive activities. Every phenomenon in the universe is inevitably the manifestation of three forces; and every process takes place according to a structure symbolized by the familiar seven-tone musical scale, with steps either upward or downward and with junctures, or intervals, where the development of forces is checked and requires special new energy to proceed along its original path. In vignets such as 'A Poison for Your Pain', he shows how Western medicine has been reduced to using extremely toxic poisons to cure chronic pain.

Maybe someday I will have the extra time, stubbornness, and lack of other things to do, to actually finish this book.Gurdjieff also speaks about the absence of unity in another, more fundamental way which also points to the meaning, in this teaching, of man’s potentially developed unity. The most crucial idea here, which has already been introduced but is now given a telling practical import, is Gurdjieff’s teaching about evolution.

Having said all that, some of the ideas in this book are brilliant, like the concept of remembering oneself.Ouspensky painstakingly states these ideas while taking every opportunity to quote Gurdjieff’s dictum that the only way an individual can understand these cosmic laws is to observe them in himself, and this through the special forms of the work which are rapidly developing in the group of which Ouspensky is a member. The book also provided an original discussion on the nature and expression of sexuality; among other things, he draws a distinction between erotica and pornography. Heather Zydek has done a remarkable job of exploring complex relationships and at the same time introducing Orthodox Christianity.