Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

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Weiser Books, Aug 1, 1996 - Philosophy - 280 pages
When Maurice Nicholl was studying in Zurich, he met Jung, and Ouspensky. He went on to study with Gurdjieff, and from 1931 to his death in 1953, he began at Ouspensky's request, a programme of work devoted to passing on the ideas he had received. Reissued in hard cover, these five unedited commentaries are taken from the weekly lectures and talks Nicoll gave to his students in England and which were recorded verbatim; the sixth volume is an index produced by the Gurdjieff society Washington DC. These differ from Nicholl's more polished works - they are more concerned with directly applying certain deep ideas to daily life.

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Contents

Organism
1257
What it means to Work on Oneself
1279
Commentary on Negative Emotions
1287
Level of Being
1311
Relationship with the Internal World
1331
On Seeing People Less Personally
1344
The Idea of Violence in the Work
1373
The Selection of Thoughts
1382
The Idea of Balanced Man in the Work
1408
A New Way of Thinking
1414
Planet
1422
1420
1435
Further Work on Identifying
1445
Where are you Internally?
1453
Note on Second Force
1462
Note on the state of Emotional Centre when we
1473

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1391
Mechanically
1401
Internal and External Denial
1492
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