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One of the most interesting parts of Gurdjieff/the FourthWay, if you get deep enough to it, is something like this massive interconnected hypertext you can get from studying the literature both directly of Gurdjieff himself and of many of his students, and the fascinating all-round picture you get from it, is what I’m sperging out about, basically.
Maurice Nicoll is especially one I’d like to give a shout-out to. He was also a student of Jung’s, and connected it with Jungian thought, then strains of Western mysticism and esotericism like Christian mysticism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, ancient Egyptian symbolism, mythology, and mysticism, etc., in a really extraordinary and compelling way. Like in pic related, “Living Time; and the Integration of the Life.”
Spoiler alert: he characterizes the essence of the human being itself, our consciousness in itself, as “living time”. And delves into the implications of this. It ends up being strangely similar to Heidegger’s Being and Time and his ontological/phenomenological investigations of how time (also what he calls historicity) is fundamental to the human being, yet from a radically different angle, where Maurice Nicoll is approaching it through esoteric or mystical teachings.
Moving on to other greenpill books:
Val Valerian’s Matrix books, Vols. I-V
Bill Cooper’s Behold A Pale Horse
The Montauk books by Preston Nichols, Peter Moon, Stewart Swerdlow
Alien books can be pretty cool, and, in my controversial opinion, actually have some really fascinating and thought-provoking existential, philosophical, and theological content to them. This includes the works of Whitley Strieber (self-claimed alien abductee and then contactee), Billy Meier (almost ditto, although he recounts it as conscious contact from the start, not forcible abduction) John Mack, MD (a Harvard-educated psychologist who eventually began work with claimed alien abductees/contactees, after a prestigious academic and practical career, dealing with things like childhood trauma, expecting them to have some form of psychosis or schizophrenia, but being amazed to find a good amount of them didn’t have the thought-patterns, personality, and lifestyle of psychotic/schizophrenic patients, instead seeming like reasonably sane people, sometimes even very hardworking, intelligent, successful people well-integrated into life or some high-paying career, but just understandably distressed and at worst traumatized by the mindfucking scenario of alien abduction or alien contact), guys like Bud Hopkins (also employed hypnotherapy and worked with alien abduction/contact claimants, as opposed to being one himself), Jacques Vallee, John Keel (ibid, a scientist and journalist respectively who compiled others’ accounts of alien contact), Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens (a former U.S. Air Force guy who then became a researcher fascinated in interviewing and compiling accounts of alien abductees and contactees), and so on.
