What I remember of this book, is that most of us go through life asleep, and when someone awakens us, we must find a group who are awake, to help keep reminding each other to 'wake up'! Working with a living teacher or master is of great help, but most of us cannot stay with that teacher all the time. it is helpful if followers meet often to remind ourselves.
I wait long time to see this movie, THANX A film directed by Zivko Nicolic, script adaptation by Milan Peters based on the 1949 book by P.D.Ouspensky. Sidney:Fairway Films in association with Znak Productions Belgrade, 1998, 42 min. black & white. Thoughtfully telescopes Ouspensky's book and glimpses of the teaching he received from Gurdjieff, interspersed with archival footage the Russia Revolution. ~J. Walter Driscoll (Author of Gurdjieff: A Reading Guide)
I believe I understand what it means to Remember One'self. It's when your conscious mind is not being lead by your subconscious mind at the particular time you remember. You are aware of what you're doing, you are observing yourself from the outside in. I try to remember, but I always forget. When you don't remember yourself you are in auto-pilot mode.
Quite good. Nice presentation of a most interesting book I first encountered some twenty-five or more years ago.I soon joined the service and was sent to Europe. In my youthful imagination I kept a look out for anything looking like a so called 'school of higher knowledge' but nothing was yielded of that. I found the Freemasons but they were not anything like a 'fourth way' school although they are a fine group in thier own right.
@webmonitor08 Hi, true some of the ideas in the book might seem bizarre to those of us with a western perception. I found this stems from a lack of my understanding of the deeper meanings, to better comprehend requires effort and time to gain a broader point of view and understanding.
It's interesting . . . that those people who had the highest opinion of Ouspensky . . . also didn't respect his wishes that this book not be published. Ouspensky's judgment has proved right. Overall, his book has put more people to sleep . . . than it has awakened.
Well, Green-rate, you can't make comments like this without explaining yourself. How has this book put more to sleep? It would have never been published, if Gurdjieff didn't give it the "OK" which he did. What Gurdjieffs aim was for doing so is a "?". But I would like to hear your explanation of how it has put to sleep many. Perhaps because of its more appeal to the "intellect" where people think they "know" and not as the Tales, which challenge man to "think" and defeat their "education"
