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< Any other Cure fans these parts?
Probably wrote about this already (oh, the indignity of aging-fueled forgetfulness...), but I had this friend in late high school whose dad was big in/on Gurdjieff/Ouspensky notions... had several of the books.
My friend himself seemed like he couldn't be bothered by it much, I imagine for having had to listen to it on a far more regular basis. But I was rather captivated as his dad elucidated.
What I didn't know until years later was the milk dad was drinking has some pretty serious vodka content to it, which accounted for much of the spell-binding glory of his delivery.
But I continued on reading the likes for several years, and I found his dad's accounts plenty accurate/consistent.
If nothing else, it engendered a healthy inner sense of "things might not be at all as they seem/appear", which stoked much investigation/discovery down other paths.
<moment of silence for that man, who couldn't possibly still be alive>
My path has gone down various twisty turny ways, Fourth Way stuff is only a part... Idries Shah (who I regard as both a fabulist *and* important) is/was another.
If nothing else, it engendered a healthy inner sense of "things might not be at all as they seem/appear", which stoked much investigation/discovery down other paths.
This is so important to have, along with a boundless curiosity and a functioning BS detector!
<moment of silence for that man, who couldn't possibly still be alive>
Amen, may his memory be for a blessing...
Everyone knows the saying that repetition is the mother of memory... there's a corollary saying, which is:
Memory is the mother of wisdom.