Deeper Man

by J.G. Bennett

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855000929
• ISBN13: 9780855000929
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Turnstone Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The most important Book not written by an Orthodox Christian

Hopefully my bias will be clearly revealed by the title. While I am on the fence or do not accept a # of 'Gurdjieff vs. traditional Christianity' issues [the fate of the soul after death, necessity of the Church's mysteries as institued by Christ, Judas Isacariot, etc, I am convinced that out of the hundred or so books I have read on G. and his system, no other book [excepting unpublished Gurdjieffean Meditation texts] comes even close to organizing clearly and experientially the mass of human spiritual experience. I rather doubt that this would be a good intro or even early book to read in one's 4th way studies [transformation and Spiritual PSychology would stand you in much better stead], but if after a while one feels stuck... If one has dipped into the Dramtic Universe, {Bennett's all and everything 'translated' through 50's/60's scientific English}, and found it too 'heady', then prepare to be refreshed. These are edited transcripts [the actual lectures can mostly be heard from bennettbooks' study of man series of tapes of JGB ] of his teaching to the last year or so of 10 month residential 4th way students. It is G, brought up to date. Some would argue against this, but I say put this book together w/ Heart w/ out Measure and an authentic source for learning the basic Gurdjieff meditations and all that will be left in your way will be your Chief Feature. And in my opinion a few serious errors re: the nature of the 'revelation' of Islam and the transmission of real esoteric Christianity. In short within the limitations [if you see them as such] of G's Work, this book lays the whole map out as 4 dimensionally as a book can. Even if you come to feel that you believe differently, you will still be greatful that you had such a touchstone to work from. Make sure you listen close!!! by the way, I am not a student of the JGB 'line' my 4th way teacher however used his material liberally and built much of his own researches on JGB's 'new and improved' 4th way. But I have come to JGB's primary practical works [Spiritual Psychology, Depper Man, Sevenfold Work and Energies] decades after my original studies and found it is the most valuable attempt at explaining the 4th way psycho-cosmology there is.