Journal of Gurdjieff Studies

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A Confrontative Example

Correspondence, opposition and regulation on the path to understanding.

Jan 17, 2023
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Continuing from 1.) Language, Understanding and Medicine, 2.) Confrontation, contact and blending of functionings and 3.) The Arena.

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Numbered references lead on from the articles above.


Illuminated illustration of the wolf, goat and cabbage problem in the Ormesby Psalter (between 1250 and 1330).

What can be an example of confrontation and contact between current perceptions in one brain and corresponding previously recorded data in another? Such a confrontation, bound together by the transforming ingredient of being-Partkdolg-duty, or “ ‘conscious labors’ and ‘intentional suffering’ [14],” is what can enable new understanding [15].

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