The crypto-reactionary character of the Gurdjieff legacy is one of the most insidious aspects of its deceptions.
Here is an old post at Darwiniana, a very popular one with a large hit count.
07.09.06
Gurdjieff comment: a reply
Posted in New Age at 8:07 pm by nemo
Thanks for your comment. Before pontificating on esotericism, tell me what is you connection with Gurdjieff? You read Ouspensky, and spend your time wishing you could find a fourth way school, but you never found one. As to my knowledge of Gurdjieff, I wouldn’t care to argue the point. I know more about sufism than most people who call themselves sufis, and as a result I stay completely away from the whole business of pious idiots and out and out sharks. Who needs it anymore?
As to Gurdjieff, you can prattle about the ‘work’, but what does it amount to? Self-remembering is one of the most ancient practices, but followers of Gurdjieff never do any because the presentation is so hyped with nonsense noone could m...
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Comment on RawlinsonFrom: gurdjieff-con.net
Post Date: 2008-09-13 20:01:46
I am putting this comment up for a post, since I would certainly toss in the towel on the accuracy of
Rawlinson./nemo/nemini
Willow:
Hello Nemo, All very interesting but not accurate as with many sholarly type texts, they are often copied from other inaccurate sources but accepted as gospel by accademia or whoever.
I will give you an example of how grossly inaccurate part of this text is.
An example of this is the text mentions Paul Twitchell the founder of Eckankar as passing someone ...
more /gmancon series upgrade and a selection from WHEEFrom: gurdjieff-con.net
Post Date: 2008-09-13 17:16:37
I need to upgrade the /gmancon series, which I wrote in one day just to get it on paper, and one aspect of that set of essays that might be of interest is the treatment of the eonic effect. Here’s a short selection from World History And The Eonic Effect from Darwiniana.
Rhyme and Reason
One of the great confusions of the modern New Age movement is the quest for the ‘New Age’ beyond mdoernity, an age that doesn’t exist.
The arrogance of the many gurus is consid...
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