Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
10 best books like Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (G.I. Gurdjieff): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, The Fourth Way, The Secret Doctrine: Vol 1, Mount Analogue, Exercises in Style
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0679723951 |
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
| Author | Jordan B. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0415922224 |
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern...
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0156612062 |
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization
Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung....
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0156007460 |
A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal...
Early in the 20th century there was this enigmatic man espousing esoteric theories who some how gained some followers, among them this author, a Russian composer, and his wife. And while Russia was in turmoil during the Bolshevik Revolution they, like true disciples, followed him to where he fancied...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0394719433 |
This book is something of a contradiction. It could be viewed as a “self help” book, but, unlike the majority of these, it does not reassure the reader or boost his or her confidence. It begins from the premise that most of our thoughts and actions are mechanical, and proceeds to suggest that it requires...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0394716728 |
The Fourth Way is the most comprehensive statement thus far published of the ideas taught by the late P.D. Ouspensky. Consisting of verbatim records of his oral teaching from 1921 to 1946, it gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of G. I. Gurdjieff's teachings, which Gurdjieff presented in...
The Secret Doctrine: Vol 1
| Author | H.P. Blavatsky |
| ISBN | 1609421701 |
I cannot imagine when this woman had time to eat, sleep or pee given the amount of time it must have taken to write this book and all the other books she has written. Albert Einstein was quoted as saying this book inspired him to split the atom. I can see why. I have since moved on to Vol II. Reading this work of...
| Author | René Daumal |
| ISBN | 0715633791 |
In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory...
| Author | Raymond Queneau |
| ISBN | 0811207897 |
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From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.
Snobbish
Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...
