In search of the miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky

In search of the miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky

P.D. Ouspensky was born in Moscow in 1878. His first book, The Fourth Dimension (1909), offered a contribution to mathematical theory; it was Tertium Organum (1912) and A New Model of the Universe (written 1914) which revealed his stature as a thinker and his deep preoccupation with the problems of man's existence.

Ouspensky's search for truth brought him in 1915 to his meeting in Moscow with George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff who revealed to him a system of knowledge which Ouspensky recognized as a vital need for mankind at the present time.

This record of Ouspensky's eight years of work as Gurdjieff's pupil is to be compared with Plato's presentation of the life and teaching of Socrates. Written with direct simplicity this book cannot fail to convey the impression that not only did Ouspensky discover a real knowledge about Man and the Universe, but that a practical teaching for the conduct of life is even now in existence. These are no theories of philosophy or psychology, but a complete understanding of the problems of life and the most direct instructions for the betterment of man's existence.

'Undoubtedly a tour de force. To put an entirely new and very complex cosmology and psychology into fewer than 400 pages, and to do this with a simplicity and vividness that makes the book accessible to any educated reader, is in itself something of an achievement.' -The Times Literary Supplement

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• Paperback (Good, has light signs of use) 
• ISBN: 071006635X 
• Condition: Good, no notes/stamps
  
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul