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Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am" (All and Everything Book 3) Kindle Edition

by G. Gurdjieff (Author), Solita Solano (Editor), Jane Heap (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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All and Everything: Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the Third Series.

FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of "An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man," or, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson."
SECOND SERIES: Three books under the common title of "Meetings with Remarkable Men."
THIRD SERIES: Four books under the common title of "Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am.' "

All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and strictly directed towards the solution of the following three cardinal problems:

FIRST SERIES: To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.
THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, non-fantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.

This unedited edition has been compiled from the typescripts from the papers of Solita Solano and Jane Heap.
The chapters are in the following order:
Book I: Introduction, First "Lecture-Talk," Second "Lecture-Talk," Third "Lecture-Talk," Fourth "Lecture-Talk," Fifth American Lecture.
Book IV: Prologue, The Outer and Inner World of Man.
Numeration of each separate paragraph of Book IV has been retained.

ISBN: 978-0-9572481-8-2 (Muriel Draper & J. G. Bennett Typeset Edition)
ISBN: 978-0-9572481-6-8 (Facsimile Typescript Edition)
ISBN: 978-0-9954756-0-1 (The Set)

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Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol, and trained in Kars both as a priest and a physician. For some twenty years, he travelled in the remotest regions of Central Asia and the Middle East - this time was crucial in the moulding of his thought. With his party of followers, he was responsible for the opening of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Other key works available from Arkana: BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON, VIEWS FROM THE REAL WORLD and MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN.

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  • KK
    5.0 out of 5 stars Words of man who "Was"
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021
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    The words of a man who perceived and sensed more than others.
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  • John
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gurdjieff
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2010
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    Reading this book gave much insight into the life and teachings of Gurdjieff. It helped make sense out of the 'school' teachings giving kind of a hidden awareness that wasn't quite obvious. A deeper understanding of the man Gurdjieff was presented here exposing some of his humanness and methods of teaching.
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  • Patrick Byrne
    4.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Gurdjieff
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2008
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    Gurdjieff is like so many "gurus" that use symbolism and mystical language which appears so prosaic that it becomes quite difficult to fully comprehend, much less profoundly understand. We truly need positive occult science, which is related to the more formal use of our Aryan mental faculties, as opposed to the emotional-devotional-mystical approach to comprehending what is honestly written (and generally valid, excluding the avaricious charlatans, nefarious disciples of the dark side, and ignorant but well meaning individuals) by so many writers and presenters of "spiritual" topics, but difficult to delve deeply into. The other point is that the language and idioms used are of the period that the writer lived, which is generally far from recent. The next point of difficulty relates to the language translations we encounter. Some are very literal and some are not done by those who fully dominate the two languages. The final difficulty is our own belief-biases that we need to transcend when approaching the subject of esoteric spirituality and the much more concrete POSITIVE occult science (not the same as christian science). We need to make sure that we avoid the more negative and evil occult sciences that appear to dominate 70% of this planet at this time; although that figure is being reduced slowly over time as the strongly positive occult science (of will, love & intelligence) continues to make inroads. All this unfortunately needs to be considered when reading this type of literature, and with an unbiased mind, extract our own intellectual comprehension and a modicum of intuitional understanding, Any belief biases will totally ruin the effort. Gurdieff gives a great deal, but you will have to work to comprehend it all.
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  • Candace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good for a limited audience
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2013
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    This copy of 'Life is real only then, when I am' fulfills my needs. My caveat would be that its value lies in completing the writings of G.I. Gurdjieff for the person interested in understanding his teaching.
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  • Ben Bennett
    3.0 out of 5 stars Dumbed down version
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2012
    The published version of Life Is Real is a limited selection from the disorganized collection of papers that was left at the time of the author's death. Some changes have been made (bizarrely - including some dates)and this version is introduced as the authorized version, although the editors were apparently coy about using their own names or credentials to authorize. Some whole chapters have been omitted.
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  • Anna Motovilova
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great service
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013
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    The book is in a perfect shape. I liked everything about this book from the time of delivery to the last moment of opening it and going throught it. I would recommend it to everyone.
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  • Barbara Wright
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Work
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2014
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    Study is required for this book. You have to work with it, digging deep and pausing long to ponder: what does this mean. And it's worth it!
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  • WAY
    1.0 out of 5 stars El libro es excelente, pero quien lee este audiolibro no lo hace nada bien.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
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    Imposible de entender esta lectura en inglés y superaburrido el narrador, es una lástima que no tengan un control de calidad con los productos que ofrecen. Así y todo, cualquier "cosa" se vende con sello Amazon. La confianza en muy frágil.
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    El libro es excelente, pero quien lee este audiolibro no lo hace nada bien.

    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
    Imposible de entender esta lectura en inglés y superaburrido el narrador, es una lástima que no tengan un control de calidad con los productos que ofrecen. Así y todo, cualquier "cosa" se vende con sello Amazon. La confianza en muy frágil.
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  • Darren
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gurdjieff "Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'"
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2021
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    The Parchment edition, so bigger format than all previous versions.

    Superb read
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  • Manu
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Canada on June 12, 2020
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    Good value
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  • Dina Fran
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gurdjieff, Maestro!
    Reviewed in Mexico on September 15, 2018
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    Gurdjieff no es para cualquiera, tienes que alcanzar cierto grado de conciencia para poder entender y recibir todo lo que él tiene para darte. Es un libro que te hace esperar bastante para llegar al punto que estabas esperando, sin embargo eso lo hace excitante.
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  • rajat
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Remarkable book!
    Reviewed in India on October 1, 2016
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    G.I.Gurdieff was a Master. This book is his last in the three series of books he wrote. And it is a summarising book of what's he wrote in his other books. It is concerned to search the fundamental aim of mans life on earth and existence. A very remarkable book written by an enlightened master.

    Amazon delivered it by the next day :-)
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on December 27, 2015
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    Good, very Good infact
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