The Fifth and Sixth Step of the Transformation of Food, and the Question of Exioëhary
Where is the Heart?
Continuing from the post Self-deceptive Imaginativeness
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The power of visualisation and imagination are attributed as a function of the “cerebellum” by certain of Gurdjieff’s pupils. Gurdjieff, in his own writings, is less explicit, but such interpretations can be seen to be in accord with what is contained there.1
For example, Bennett describes the substances of the cerebellum, or being-Piandjoëhary,2 as these are called in Gurdjieff’s first series, as “the energy of imagination”3 and “the true substance of visualization, which is the creation of mental images, which are not really internal pictures, but forms that can have a real effect on us and on events.”4
Orage, in a similar manner, as mentioned in the post The Cerebellum or Centre #4, says that Centre #4 contains the potentialities of a fully developed Formal Logic.5 He also says that “Formal understanding” is “understanding by forms,”6 and links it with Gurdjieff’s term “mentation by form,”7 saying, “Association by form, or ‘mentation, by form’, is dependent on personal experience,”8 and also, “association of forms – mentation by form, reasoning by ideas.”9