The volumes of "The Force of Gurdjieff" Magisteria publishing collection reunite various rare, important and sometimes unknown texts written by people who were influenced by the remarkable force of the Gurdjieff's teaching.

"The Force of Gurdjieff" collection reunites various rare, important and sometimes unknown texts written by people who were influenced by the remarkable force of the Gurdjieff's teaching.After more twenty years of searching through different "ways" and types of exercises and more than ten years in one of the groups from the Gurdjieff Institute, the author brings you a book which contain most of the exercises practiced in the Gurdjieff teaching along with new insights.A must have for any true seeker of truth. Table of contents:Preface - 5 -The atmosphere - 6 -The "I am" exercise - 13 -Sitting - 19 -The centers - 26 -The last hour of life - 28 -Numbering - 31 -Eating - 34 -Breathing - 37 -Talking to oneself - 40 -Object details - 45 -Visualization of an object - 47 -One thing at a time - 49 -Influences - 51 -Self-observation & Self-remembering - 60 -Interference, participation, experiment - 67 -States of consciousness - 71 -Human types - 74 -Voluntary suffering and conscious labor - 76 -The nightly review - 83 -Alarm Clocks - 86 -Movements - 87 -

Since there is a great confusion about the different components of the spiritual anatomy of man, Alexandru Eugen Cristea has made his mission to clarify the various concepts found in the works of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Orage and their followers, explaining terminology such as: parts, centers, sub-centers, bodies, etc.Practical exercises are given for the development of each center and body, some of them available to the public for the first time ever.Preface - 1 -The Structure of the Universe - 2 -Myth vs. Reality - 2 -The Ray of Creation - 4 -The Universal Octave - 7 -From macrocosm to microcosm - 11 -From metals to humans - 13 -Man's Place in the Universe - 15 -The laws of the worlds - 18 -The 3 main parts - 20 -Practical exercise - 21 -The Centers - 23 -The three lower centers - 25 -Man no. 1 - 30 -Man no. 2 - 34 -Man no. 3 - 35 -The ancient art of Tarot - 37 -The accumulators - 44 -The Formatory Apparatus - 46 -The three higher centers - 48 -Immolation - 50 -Differences between centers - 52 -Survival Triads - 53 -Circularity inside each center - 57 -Kundabuffer - 58 -The Three Foods and the Centers - 60 -About the Enneagram - 60 -From Ouspensky with love - 64 -The Oragean Version - 67 -States of consciousness - 68 -Practical exercise - Self Observation - 72 -Effects of Self-Observation - 79 -The three storied factory - 81 -The balance of the centers - 84 -As above, so bellow - 88 -The Human Types revisited - 90 -The Human Bodies - 93 -Ouspensky and his four bodies - 93 -Some characteristics of the bodies - 94 -Orage and his three bodies - 96 -Psychological evolution within the bodies - 98 -Concepts reevaluated - 99 -Practical exercise for the 2nd body - 102 -Other practical exercises for the 2nd body - 104 -Practical exercise for the 3rd body - 108 -The Way of the Food Assimilation - 120 -The short version - 131 -Conclusion - 136 -

Adrian Mirel Petrariu (born 1978) is the one who has seized the ternary vantage point of unprecedented evolution in modern science, unprecedented openness in spiritual tradition (especially the work and teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff) and unprecedented possibilities of transdisciplinarity in order to take us in a journey along his own insights and enlightenment. The Romanian seeker employed a literary language as close as possible to the mathematical and logical scaffolding of the Universe, avoiding simultaneously at all costs any mystical imprecision, in order to follow the trajectory of the energy from nothing to everything and specifically to the human being that we all are. As a Ph. D. holding degrees in IT, Law studies, Economics and Philosophy, the author has brought us this allegorical masterpiece, the only treatise where you can find, including but not limited to, the following: -How does the Universe work and by what laws; -The geography of Heaven and the Enneagram; -What is the Devil, where is to be found and why 666; -The origin and essence of love, falling in love and sex; -Missing fragments of Gurdjieff's teaching; -Amazing hidden knowledge of ancient Tarot symbols; -The place of Man and its perspectives; And many, many more.

This book recounts P. D. Ouspensky's first meeting and subsequent association with George Gurdjieff. It is widely regarded as perhaps the most comprehensive account of Gurdjieff's system of thought available. Many followers regard it as a "fundamental textbook" of Gurdjieff's teachings and it is often used as a means of introducing new students to Gurdjieff's system of self-development.

"In my experience, emotions are completely misunderstood nowadays. It seems like people just don't know what they are anymore, let alone how and why they work. Unfortunately, I have also found this state of things among a great deal of those studying Gurdjieff's teaching, who even if are maybe the only ones left having an accurate knowledge about consciousness and how to achieve it, seem to have lost the path to conscience along the way." Adrian Mirel Petrariu, Ph.D Table of Contents: Introduction to the English Edition - 10 -Emotions - 11 -Introduction - 12 -Group Exercise - 13 -Methodology - 19 -Types of Emotions - 24 -Types of Civilizations - 28 -Levels of Reality - 31 -The Three Poisons - 35 -Religion - 39 -Lack of Energy - 41 -Sins - 45 -Boredom- Contradiction- Self-calming - 51 -Sentiments - 53 -Men versus Women - 63 -The Need for Meaning - 67 -Obedience - 70 -Questions and Answers - 74 -Success, happiness and the mystery of mediocrity - 83 -The Affective Dimension of Social Systems - 91 -The functional synthesis of the social system: the affective dimension of the social systems - 92 -Annexes - 109 -A.R. Orage Lecture: The Three Brains - 110 -

A magnum opus somehow similar with Ouspensky's Fragments, this version of the Gurdjieffian teaching contains all the theoretical and practical aspects along with never before published diagrams and a coherent presentation of Gurdjieff exercises, transmitted only orally until now. Written by C. Daly King - who received first hand information from Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Orage - is now available for the first time to the general public. The only version with corrected text and remastered diagrams. Contents: The Subject and the Attitude - 55 - Part 1. The body of knowledge. A scientific method. Impartiality. The fundamental questions. - 56 - Part 2. Levels of knowledge. The course of exposition. Language and terms. Reality and Unreality. - 62 - Part 3. What is the attitude? The map and the continents. Accuracy. The disease of suggestibility. - 76 - Part 4. Personal verification. The localities and the boat. - 80 - Part 5. Mankind in the Universe. The Law of the Octave. Examples of octavic relationships. The Law of the Three. Examples. - 82 - Part 6. The origin of the information. The Esoteric schools. Why the secrecy? - 96 - The Local Map - 101 - Part 1. Neurological structures. Normal vs. Abnormal. The point of departure. - 102 - Part 2. The functions of man. The centers. Heredity and environment. The Magnetic Centre. - 113 - Part 3. Functional Types. The "I". Identification. Automatic roles. Consciousness. Free Will. The fallacy of reform. The Equipage. The Prince. - 129 - Part 4. Levels of consciousness. Man's natural function in the Universe. The Myth of the Black Sheep. The Cosmic Ray. The Organic Kingdom. - 150 - Part 5. Mechanisms of bondage. Kundalini and Kundabuffer. Imagination. Self-Calming. The human potential. - 171 - Part 6. The potential centers. The universal octave. Centers and functions. The three foods. Digestion stages. - 181 - The Boat - 204 - Part 1. The Open Secret and the Hidden Secret. Warnings. The actual postulant. Between two chairs. - 205 - Part 2. The threefold image of oneself. Sincerity and humor. Sane objectivity. Organizing your work. The Portrait. Positive and negative human types. The life review. The nightly review. Personality and essence. Chief Feature. Animal Types. Dangers of self-knowledge. Impartiality towards oneself. - 209 - Part 3. The four states of consciousness. Self-Observation and Self-Consciousness. - 239 - Part 4. The four ways. The technique of Self-Observation. "I" and "it". Dangers of breathing exercises. The second step: Participation. Common Sense. The third step: Experiment. Changing habits. The balanced day. The weather. The vow. Artificial reminders. Self-Remembering. - 254 - Part 5. The effects of Self-Observation on the organism. The organic location of digestion stages. Activation of centers. Subcentres. The three organic bodies. The second conscious shock. - 338 - Part 6. The first stage of the Method. The scientific procedure. Verification of conclusions. - 371 - Part 7. Voluntary Suffering and Conscious Labor. Negative emotions. Pondering. Sin-eating. The complete outline of the Method. - 378 - The Greater Map - 390 - Part 1. The outline of the universe. The hidden knowledge of genuine schools. - 391 - Part 2. The "I". A normal human action. Sympathy and compassion. Conscience. Morality. The Comfort Bed. Useless worries. Faith, Hope and Love. Art. Symbols. The Enneagram. Man in the Universe. Information sources. - 395 - Part 3. The cosmoses. Atom. Hydrogen. Table of hydrogens. Universal relationships. Man's energy sources. Types of reason. Prospects. - 447 - Part 4. Time dimensionality. The time-organ. The first dimension of time. Simultaneity. Memory. Three-dimensional time. Relative time. Incarnation and Reincarnation. Physical time. Recurrence. The life path. - 493 - Destination - 537 - Oragean Aphorisms - 538 - Summation - 563 - The Destiny of Man. - 569 - Reckoning - 571 - Appendix - 576 - The Ouspenskian Version - 577 -