The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky (PDF)

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⭐No active table of contents.Each paragraph begins a new page.No diagrams. I think one of the diagrams from the text is formatted as one word per page with no graphic marking.—-I returned to this book after several years.The current Kindle version is much improved. The text flows from page to page like a book.There is an unlabeled active table of contents at the end of the book. It has entries Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III … and so on. These are the same entries in the Kindle goto menu.Each chapter of the work has about a dozen titled subsections. These subsections are listed at the start of each chapter – but not brought to the table of contents. The subsection listings are not clickable links. In the print edition the subsection title appears at the top of each page. I didn’t discover a simple way to associate the subsection titles with the ebook text stream.I found no diagrams.In fifteen minutes of page turning I noticed one scanning typo a “docs” instead of a “does”.I suspect this edition could not replace a print edition for detailed study of the work. For my casual browsing, I would prefer thumbing through the old paperback edition. However if you’re curious about the work [and like me will probably never finish it], this is an inexpensive introduction.

⭐This book contains all you need to begin on a journey of psychological evolution. It covers everything that modern psychology is just beginning to discover, and it is ancient information (presented in a contemporary manor). If you study, and practice, the information given in this book you will learn who and what you are, and then you will be able to understand other people as well because even though we are all different we are all alike at the same time.

⭐After 50 years of “work”, I understand the Fourth Way much better. Even though 50 years seems like a long time, it becomes evident that 50 years is nothing in the real scheme. Just getting negative emotions under control has made my life completely different. I look forward to the next 50 years.

⭐This book, that I have now read nine times, never fails to teach and to satisfy anyone questing for answers that lie behind the mundane. I can not possibly list the benefits from reading this book and even more so if the reader applies the lessons. It is for each and everyone to find on their own.I would urge anyone contemplating reading this book, to first read ‘The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution’ by PD Ouspensky as it will give the reader the perfect foundation for then reading The Fourth Way.

⭐This book is one of the best practical books by Ouspensky, but this edition omits the diagrams. Oh well, it is still better than a book which requires me to get up and find it, especially as both copies in the house are paperbacks that loose pages. Making efforts easier isn’t the best, but anything that gets me to read this book is better than indulging in “jounalism” about murders and politics.

⭐Loved everything about the book but the print size. Found it too small. Book itself is a nice handling size and I will have to read it to decide on its contents but I’m pretty sure it will be enlightening. I shall see.

⭐Everything the other reviewers have said is true. The format is unacceptable, the page changes at the end of every paragraph or even sooner, the diagrams are missing etc.Yet, the content is there. At a very good price too. If you are interested in the fourth way, the questions and answers from Ouspensky’s lectures are really helpful. So I didn’t really mind constantly having to change the page. I was happy to be able to have the book.

⭐Wow! I was impressed when I read “In Search of the Miraculous”, but this has some wonderful content and expands on it.

⭐The Fourth Way’ is the most complete collection — over 400 pages in print — of the ideas taught by P D Ouspensky subsequent to his break with his one time mentor: G I Gurdjieff. It is an engrossing and brilliant work based on verbatim records from the year 1921 to 1946 and develops the material set forth in Ouspensky’s earlier book: ‘In Search of the Miraculous’.For those unfamiliar with the work of these two men, a brief history of their remarkable lives may be of interest.George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol, then part of the Russian empire, sometime between January 13, 1866 and November 28, 1877; his exact birthdate, like the man himself, is something of a mystery.His father was Greek, his mother was Armenian. After extensive travelling, much of it in early life, he became an influential spiritual teacher who argued that most people live their lives in a robot like condition, in a low state of awareness, akin to hypnosis, which he called “waking sleep”. He did, however, insist but that it is possible to escape this mechanicalness and transcend to a higher level of consciousness and hence achieve one’s full potential. Gurdjieff developed a system to realize this goal which consisted on `working on oneself’, largely through accurate self-observation to recognize one’s innate mechanicalness, self-remembering to awaken one’s consciousness and non-expression of negative emotions so as not to dissipate energy. In order for this type of spiritual work to proceed correctly, his approach required a special type of environment or school. His method differed from the traditional paths of the fakir, monk or yogi and so was called the `Fourth Way’ or the `Way of the Cunning Man.’ Gurdjieff also described his teaching as being “esoteric Christianity.”During the course of his life, Gurdjieff started and closed down various schools of the Fourth Way in different parts of the world, the first of which appears to have been in Moscow. He seems to have enjoyed varying degrees of success. The origin of his esoteric teaching is disputed. Gurdjieff claimed that it was essentially an oral tradition, an ancient wisdom which he had encountered it during his prolific travels.P D Ouspensky was born in Moscow on 5 March 1878 and grew up among the Russian intelligentsia of his day. From an early age, he seemed frequently to experience a sense of the fundamental unreality of the world around him and a feeling that `I have been here before.’ Not surprisingly therefore, he was deeply struck by the Nietzsche’s concept of `Eternal Recurrence’ when he encountered this concept in his adolescence. Indeed, the idea that we repeatedly live the through same embodiment appears to have become something of an obsession; for instance, it features in Ouspensky’s strange auto-biographical novel: `The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin.’Ouspensky became a successful journalist and travelled extensively in both Europe and the United States between 1908 and 1912, during which time he appears to have undergone a profound mystical experience, a sensation so powerful that it was to influence the rest of his life. He rose to celebrity status after his book, a philosophical treatise: `Tertium Organum’ was published in 1912; it became a best seller. His reputation was further enhanced by `A New Model of the Universe’ which appeared in 1914. In the same year, he realised his ambition to travel to India. He seemed intent on finding an esoteric school of `real’ philosophical knowledge and a master teacher. He finally appeared to have succeeded upon return to Moscow in 1915 where he met up with Gurdjieff.Ouspensky subsequently studied the Gurdjieff System under the latter’s personal supervision for a period of some ten years until 1924 after which they separated when Gurdjieff founded his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France. Ouspensky, for his part, set up his own organization in London: The Society for the Study of Normal Psychology which subsequently became known as the Study Society. Nevertheless, he wrote about his time with Gurdjieff in a book originally entitled Fragments of an Unknown Teaching. It was published posthumously in 1947 under the title: In Search of the Miraculous.The ‘Fourth Way’ gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of Gurdjieff’s esoteric system and provides a path for inner spiritual development to be followed in the ordinary conditions of life of the Western householder as distinct from the three traditional ways that call for retirement from the world – those of the Fakir, Monk and Yogi. I highly recommend it.It was Ouspensky’s specific task to put together the raw material of Gurdjieff’s teaching into a systemic whole and transmit these ideas by means of lectures and talks, many of them in London through the Study Society which Ouspensky founded.Whereas Ouspensky first major book: ‘Tertium Organum’ dealt with new ways of thinking, ‘The Fourth Way’ deals with new ways of living. With his answers — in 16 chapters — to a wide range of questions from his students, Ouspensky displays characteristic clarity, simplicity and sureness. The book is a precious guide to those who are seeking a true but by no means easy guide to inner spiritual growth. Readers should not be put off by Gurdjieff’s apparently bizarre ideas about Cosmology, particularly in relation to the so called: ‘feeding of the moon’. There is good reason to believe that these notions were not meant to be taken literally and were designed to shake his students out of the confines of their habitual ways of thinking — to wake them up.For readers who are unfamiliar with the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, I would also recommend that they first try ‘The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution’. Published after Ouspensky’s death, it is much more concise introduction — less than 100 pages in print — to this extraordinary philosophy of life.Chris Allen is a Technical Author and writer with the following books available through Amazon:

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⭐This is a challenging book. I’ve read a lot of self-help and philosophical/esoterical books and this is not an easy challenge. However, I think if you find it at the right time in your life and you’re ready for it, it does contain some genuine truth. But you need to be prepared to look into yourself and face the mechanics at work that are holding you back. Over time, it will start to shift something inside, but just don’t expect a quick fix.

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⭐For those who wish to pond further into spirituality this is one of the most complete books or try a simpler version from author Samael Aun Weor, also goes into great depth in a way that makes it easy understand .

⭐The first 19 pages of the book are of a random book about horses called “The Eighty Dollar Champion”. Having only just gotten round to reading the book it’s now too late to return.A shame, I was looking forward to reading this book.

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