George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff’s Biography

born 13.1.1866 (?) Alexandropol (Russia), died 29.10.1949 Neuilly, Paris.

Greco-Armenian holistic philosopher, thaumaturge, and teacher of Sacred Dances (whose ancillary personae as musicologist, therapist, hypnotist, raconteur, explorer, polyglot, and entrepreneur exercise the taxonomic mind). G.’s work comprises one ballet, some 250 Sacred Dances, 200 piano pieces composed in collaboration with his pupil Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann (1886-1956), and four books, the magnum opus being Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. For more than 35 years he privately taught, by example and oral precept, a previously unknown doctrine styled “The Work”, attracting – and often quixotically repulsing – groups of gifted disciples: Russian, English, American, and French. His system integrated a semantic critique, a social critique, an epistemology, a mythopoeic cosmogony and cosmology, a phenomenology of consciousness, and a practical Existenzphilosophie. Read more

April 6, 2008 · Filed Under: Eastern Mysticism, Historical Personalities

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An Introduction To Hinduism

It has been pointed out by Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee, in A Study of History, that the principal civilisations of the world lay different degrees of emphasis on specific lines of activity. Hellenic civilisation, for instance, displays a manifest tendency towards a prominently aesthetic outlook on life as a whole. Indian civilisation, on the other hand, shows an equally manifest tendency towards a predominantly religious outlook. Dr. Toynbee’s remark sums up what has been observed by many other scholars. Indeed, the study of Hinduism has to be, in a large measure, a study of the general Hindu outlook on life. Read more

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under: Eastern Mysticism, Religions

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Osho’s Response to a Question on Homosexuality

Original Question:

The questioner says: I have a lover…and I have an eating disorder.
Osho asks: The lover is a man?
The questioner answers: Yes. Read more

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under: Eastern Mysticism

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Osho: Ego, The False Center

The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards. Read more

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under: Eastern Mysticism

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Osho: Meditation Not Madness

Exponents of Reality have always looked Mad to the Masses. On the surface, the difference between an Exponent of Reality and a Madman appears very small. At the core the difference between an Exponent of Reality and a Madman is Vast. Read more

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under: Eastern Mysticism

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