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Introduction to the system
As humankind we have always asked questions about ourselves and the universe around us. Philosophy and religion have provided us with two contrasting viewpoints...
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The first step towards the work
There is an Eastern saying: "Man is asleep, only death will wake him up". When someone is close to death, he often realises how he has constructed his life...
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A Real Man
If we look at the overwhelming majority of our contemporaries, we realise that they aren’t even vaguely aware of living an automatic life...
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Objective Music
Gurdjieff's writings contain many references to objective music...
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Knowing and Being
In Gurdjieff's system it is fundamental to understand the principles that distinguish "knowing" and "being". Let's try to understand it together...
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Work on Ourselves
A man’s harmonious development takes place when his knowledge grows proportionally with his being.  Theoretical knowledge is not enough to feed his being...
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The human psychic centres
Gurdjieff's main theory says that man has incredible abilities that he does not use. We are structured in a very complex and efficient way but very few of us are able to...
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Octaves (Part 1)
We can find another example of the Law of Seven in the musical scale.   In the scale, between E and F and between B and C (almost at the the beginning and almost at the end of the tonal scale) there is no a...
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Octaves (Part 2)
This law explains why nothing in nature moves in a straight line and why our actions, our decisions, our deeds, often change and move away from...
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Additional Shocks
By observation we can note that in certain octaves, or in certain human initiatives, it is possible for the action we undertake to continue in a straight line and reach its objective. But...
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An example of Additional Shocks
Mike decides to study subject XX and to pass his exam with full marks. He starts to study with enthusiasm (C/Do). After a while he begins to feel that his attention is decreasing (D/Re) and...
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