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From Pat Deveney's database:
Gurdjieff Journal.
Exploring Gurdjieff's teaching of the Fourth Way - the way of transformation in ordinary life.
Other titles: Gurdjieff
1992 Quarterly
Fairfax, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Arete / William M. Blue. Editor: William Patrick Patterson.
1/1, 1992. 28 pp., $25.00 a year. The journal calls itself "first journal of The Fourth Way, the intention of The Gurdjieff Journal is to observe and report upon the contemporary world 'mercilessly without any compromises whatsoever.' Through original research, timely and provocative feature articles, essays and reviews, TGJ explores the principles, perspectives and practices of Gurdjieff's teachings and how they can be applied to daily life."
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The Gurdjieff Journal is a modern Fourth Way quarterly devoted to the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and its lineages — the Prieuré and Study House, pupils such as J. G. Bennett, and comparisons with later teachers. Its idiom is esoteric — initiation, the astral body, conscious labor — which is why an automated reader mistakes it for generic occultism or Theosophy; in fact its subject is 'the Work' of self-observation and self-remembering. Language that looks like spiritualism ('control') or New Thought ('success', 'concentration') belongs instead to Gurdjieff's psychology of a sleeping, mechanical humanity awakening to conscious effort, and a thread on trance and man-as-machine gives the journal a light, genuine touch of the hypnotism literature.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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| Topics: | Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way |
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