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However, Gurdjieff was a master of situations and could use even the most arduous conditions as a vehicle for intensifying work upon self. This is consistent with what all the masters have taught, that growth happens more effectively in the soil of insecurity. When things are too stable and safe we tend to go to sleep, as when it is dark and quiet at night.
Three Dangerous Magi
P. T. Mistlberger
What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. Because the human brain, like other animal brains, acts as an electro-colloidal computer, not a solid-state computer, it follows the same laws as other animal brains. That is, the programs get into the brain, as electro-chemical bonds, in discrete quantum stages.
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
In 1948 Bob discovered Philip Wylie’s book, An Essay on Morals (1947), and he was quickly hooked.[xxvi] Wylie sought to present “a science of philosophy,” through his discussion of Carl Jung’s theory on human instinct, which delineated four ego functions, or orientations, of a personality: rational, sensational, intuitive, and emotional.
Chapel Perilous
Gabriel Kennedy
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