Reich and Gurdjieff: Sexuality and the Evolution of Consciousness

by David M. Brahinsky

The main subject of this book is the relationship between sexual health and spiritual evolution. Specifically, the book focuses on Wilhelm Reich’s discoveries regarding sexual health and George I. Gurdjieff’s concept of spiritual evolution. The thesis is that spiritual evolution, in Gurdjieff’s sense, is not possible apart from sexual health as Reich determined it.

Throughout the book, Brahinsky presents an in-depth discussion on Gurdjieff’s conception of the evolution of consciousness, sex, Reich’s discovery of the prime source biological life energy, the fundamental laws of world creation and world maintenance, the evolution and involution of consciousness, the food of impressions and the crystallization of the higher-being bodies, and finally, sexuality and evolution.

Students of Reich and Gurdjieff will acquire the knowledge they need through this edifying book. For more information on Reich and Gurdjieff: Sexuality and the Evolution of Consciousness, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com.

Genres: Spirituality

297 pages, Kindle Edition

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!