Charlas Con Un Diablo

by P.D. Ouspensky

Charlas con un Diablo [REF2Bpriv+mx]

230 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2023

About the author

Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (known in English as Peter D. Ouspensky, Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский; was a Russian mathematician and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. He was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He shared the (Gurdjieff) "system" for 25 years in England and the United States, having separated from Gurdjieff in 1924 personally, for reasons he explains in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous.

All in all, Ouspensky studied the Gurdjieff system directly under Gurdjieff's own supervision for a period of ten years, from 1915 to 1924. His book In Search of the Miraculous is a recounting of what he learned from Gurdjieff during those years. While lecturing in London in 1924, he announced that he would continue independently the way he had begun in 1921. Some, including his close pupil Rodney Collin, say that he finally gave up the system in 1947, just before his death, but his own recorded words on the subject ("A Record of Meetings", published posthumously) do not clearly endorse this judgement, nor does Ouspensky's emphasis on "you must make a new beginning" after confessing "I've left the system".

Reviews

[Naira · Rating 4 out of 5]

"El hombre es vulnerable en ambos aspectos de su naturaleza: aquella que lucha por la luz no menos que la que busca la oscuridad."

[Kalebe Ramone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me gustó mucho la forma en que representa al diablo como un aspecto de la realidad que nos busca engañar para hacernos creer que no existe lo trascendental, haciéndonos recordar que es importante pensar a cada instante si lo que hacemos está sirviendo a un propósito trascendental o no. Por otro lado su estilo de escritura es muy anticuado en especial hablando de sus personajes femeninos, sí se sienten solo como accesorios en el desarrollo del personaje masculino, además de que a sus personajes masculinos los alaba mucho y los describe como genios torturados, mientras que las mujeres solo piensan según el en cosas más simples como comprar cosas y construir una casa xd. Se que Ouspensky no era escritor de ficción y lo suyo eran otras cosas pero en este caso si se ve mucho ese tipo de pensamiento y saca bastante de onda xd