Opening of the Way

So finishing up with:

East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the West / John Adago (2014)

Want to record some of its references:

Henry George, Progress and Poverty

Leon MacLaren, MacLaren Lectures

Ouspensky, Tertium Organum,

Tertium organum : the third canon of thought : a key to the enigmas of the world / P.D. Ouspensky ; revised translation by E. Kadloubovsky and the author ; originally translated by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon (1982 edition 298 pages)
 
 Author Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi︠an︡ovich), 1878-1947 
 
Francis C. Roles, multiple books, but not in libraries

https://www.amazon.com/Orange-Book-Method-Self-Realisation-ebook/dp/B008IVC0XI/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1576545375&refinements=p_27%3AFrancis+Roles&s=books&sr=1-3

Standing for Justice: A Biography of Andrew MacLaren MP (Enduring Quest), by John Stewart
https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Justice-Biography-MacLaren-Enduring/dp/0856831948

But not in libraries.

So to follow up on stuff from the Tobias Churton book on Gurdjieef:

G's organization was Institute for Development of the Harmonious Human Being, IDHHB.

This ran for along time.  I talked to someone with them in Palo Alto, maybe 20 years ago.

If you looked in a library at a book by or about G., you might find an IDHHB book mark.

But today though, looks like IDHHB has been taken over or merged with one E. J. (Jeff) Gold, a self styled G. imitator.  Maybe this is for the better.

https://www.idhhb.com/


So Peter D. Ouspensky, major follower of G.  Read some of his stuff.  But later Ouspensky turned against G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky

Some of his books can now be found online.

I would be more inclined to go along with Ouspensky than with G. himself.

Today only  Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi︠a︡novich), 1878-1947. 
In search of the miraculous; fragments of an unknown teaching.
 
 is in academic libraries around me.

Both G. and Ouspensky amounted to Anti-Marxists, especially Anti-Bolsheviks.

But Ouspensky helped found the London School of Economic Science, and they are built first and foremost on the works of the American Socialist Henry George.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Economic_Science

Labor MP Andrew MacLaren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_MacLaren



video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmkYwxuO9A

and right here, a book about them

East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the West / John Adago (2014)

Yeah I gotta read this:
https://www.amazon.com/East-Meets-West-John-Adago/dp/0692124217/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=john+adago&qid=1574820060&sr=8-2

So reading this Tobias Churton book about Georges Gurdjieff.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620556383/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6

Churton is a prolific writer.  I cannot imagine how he can read how many books as he must.

This discussion of Gurdjieff does follow on from his discussion of turn of the century Paris.

Some books and people are introduced.

A highly influential thinker and writer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Fabre_d%27Olivet

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767, Ganges, Hérault – March 25, 1825, Paris)

 French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi, Gérard Encausse - Papus and Édouard Schuré.

Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre 
 (26 March 1842 – 5 February 1909) was a French occultist who adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825) and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Gérard Encausse alias Papus. His work on "L'Archéomètre" deeply influenced the young René Guénon. He developed the term Synarchy—the association of everyone with everyone else—into a political philosophy, and his ideas about this type of government proved influential in politics and the occult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Saint-Yves_d%27Alveydre

And then Papus.

And then especially
Édouard Schuré
Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Schur%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Schur%C3%A9


And his book is in academic libraries

The great initiates : a study of the secret history of religions / translated from the French by Gloria Rasberry. Introd. by Paul M. Allen.

Gurdjieff was very aggressive about educating himself too.  Have to admire that.

And then talk about Jules Doniel, as he founded the Gnostic Church.

Ge Wang, Stanford, really interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T8kcSRLL0

ChucK, a programming language written for music, by Ge Wang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/thesis.html


Relaxing Blues Music Vol 7 Mix Songs | Rock Music 2018 HiFi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nd9GtfFTMk

American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges

"
In this version of the Christian Gospel, the exploitation and abuse of other human beings is a good.  Homosexuality is an evil.  And this global, heartless system of economic rationalism has morphed in the rhetoric of the Christian Right into a test of faith.  The ideology it espouses is a radical evil, an ideology of death.  It calls wanton destruction, destruction of human beings, of the environment, of communities and neighborhoods, of labor unions, of a free press, of Iraqis, Palestinians or others in the Middle East who would deny us oil fields and hegemony, of federal regulatory agencies, social welfare programs, public education--in short, the destruction of all people and programs that stand in the way of a Christian America and its God-given right to dominate the rest of the planet.  The movement offers, in return, the absurd but seductive promise that those who are right with God will rise to dominate the rest of the planet.  The movement offers, in return, the absurd but seductive promise that those who are right with God will rise to become spiritual and material oligarchs.  They will become the new class.  Those who are not right with God, be they poor or Muslim or unsaved, deserve what they get.  In the rational world none of this makes sense.  But believers have been removed from a reality-based world.  They believe that through Jesus all is possible.  It has become a Christian duty to embrace the exploitation of others, to build a Christian America where freedom means the freedom of the powerful to dominate the weak.  Since believers see themselves as becoming empowered through faith, the gross injustices and repression that could well boomerang back on most of them are of little concern.  They assuage their consciences with the small acts of charity they or their churches dole out to the homeless or the mission fields.  The emotion -filled religious spectacles and spiritual bromides compensate for the emptiness of their lives.  They are energized by hate campaigns against gays or Muslims or liberals or immigrants.  They walk willingly into a totalitarian prison they are helping to construct.  They yearn for it.  They work for it with passion, self-sacrifice and a blinding self-righteousness.

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Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/4/greensboro_massacre_40th_anniversary#transcript

Hubert Dreyfus Interview - AI, Heidegger, Meaning in the Modern World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_zNHOzDP7w