Reich and Gurdjieff

by David M. Brahinsky

Within each of these notes of the inner octave of the first note of the largerone are other octaves. Let us pick one of them—filling out the forms. ...

Genres: Spirituality

294 pages, Paperback

First published February 24, 2011

Reviews

[Gnarly Authenticity . · Rating 2 out of 5]

My interest in this topic & imagination of what it could have been got me through 80% of this terrible book before giving up.

Instead of a synthesis of these thinkers, it's a digest of the most obtuse parts of their respective systems. The first half of the book is a slow trawl through Gurdjieff's Table Of Hydrogens; and the second half is an incredibly tedious blow-by-blow account of Reich's orgone research; which, once it left the realm of the human bodymind and changed from a metaphor for certain processes therein into an overarching "scientific" Theory of Everything, became the least interesting phase of his thought. It all goes nowhere with great repetitiveness.

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[Celestin Büche · Rating 5 out of 5]

wild but worth the read!