Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: First Book by G.I. Gurdjieff

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: First Book Reviews

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  Rachael

  Not an easy read at first, but once you get into the flow of it there's no stopping the torrent of ideas, images and scenes that this book conjures up in your inner world.
  A rare book that can change your mind about almost everything you thought you knew.
  Good for seekers who have exhausted their search and feel there is still nothing of substance out there. This book and it's sequels are choc full of layers of information and keys to awaken dormant parts of you which are heavily buried under social conditioning.
  Read with caution as I have been forever changed by this series of books.
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  Así es la rosa

  Dificilísimo de leer, pero cuando te adentras en el mundo Gurdjieff, resulta una maravilla. Obra plagada de conocimiento, el autor no nos lo pone nada fácil para que debamos desautomatizarnos y leer con conciencia y presencia. Personalmente, creo que lo ideal es leer antes a Ouspensky para aprovechar y entender al máximo las enseñanzas de Gurdjieff.
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  Luis De Ita

  Para disfrutar a Gurdjieff, hay que estar dispuesto a una metamorfosis, si estás cómodo en tu vida, si te gusta leer por distracción, si no disfrutas usar la mente a todas sus revoluciones, Gurdjieff te va a cansar, te vas a enojar, vas a a sufrir de más gratuitamente; hay que estar abierto mentalmente para amar su obra.
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  Marat Dakunin

  Strange thing..I know - he told us - why the Author use such awful outdated (for polish reader in polish translation) language and such unfriendly nomenklatur for the most important words and ideas.
  
  The aim of Author is to change the habits and language xero-bad-meaning-copies, repeated by centuries of using words and in word while things and values changes, meaning changes in some tricky way...many different habits, in language esspecially hidden and dangerous - because strictly linked (somehow hard to show or detect this link between sentence, word and thought..emotion and observation are another problems..).
  
  The merit aim of Author is told truth about human pre-history, forgotten civilistion, and forgoten history of ideas, right meaning of bad, good, evil, God, death, life, soul, mind, ego... etc.etc. and such, most important concepts of human thought and emotion, ego, and other soul powers.
  
  However, it may be considered as almost - masterpiece - I decided to give only 3 stars as a formal
  impression, because I think the book could be written better, better for Reader. Without merit compromise.
  
  pS
  I have red 4/5 of book..