Journal of Gurdjieff Studies

Journal of Gurdjieff Studies

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Journal of Gurdjieff Studies
Journal of Gurdjieff Studies
The Arena

The Arena

Jan 09, 2023
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The Arena
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Saint Agapitus of Praeneste in the Arena. Anon circa 1500 –1505.

Continuing from Language, Understanding and Medicine, and Confrontation, contact and blending of functionings. The numbered references lead on from these articles.

This post is an introduction to “A Confrontative Example.”


What are the steps, or the evolving sequence of action, and the dynamics between the forces for the inner confrontations that may lead to a real development of understanding? The pursuit of this knowledge without examination of my own lived examples, and thus for it being made complete on its own scale, can only lead to the acquiring of a transitory something that remains only as information [10] without real substance. It is then partial at best, and probably illusory, without the corrective remedy of practical life.

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