Gurdjieff clearly wanted his pupils to try to understand Objective Science.
It\'s an intellectual adventure and a wild conceptual ride..
It then proceeds to provide a clear description of the fundamentals of Objective Science: What are its methods? What does the Ray of Creation signify or imply? What are the Hydrogens and how are they derived? What are the implications of the Trogoautoegocrat? How are the elements formed? How does evolution happen? What is plasma and what is its role in the life of the whole cosmos? How do new planets form? Is the Moon really growing? Is the Earth itself growing? What is Man\'s place in the cosmos and how can we use the Step Diagram (see the front cover) to understand that? Is humanity really food for the Moon? If so, how? The author accompanies you on a journey of revelation.
It grasps the nettle-exploring the principles of Objective Science and explaining why it cannot be reconciled with Modern Science in its current form.
This book moves in the opposite direction.
And yet, most books about The Work steer clear of the topic.
He described its study as a necessity-one of five obligolnian strivings.
One adorns the pages of In Search of the Miraculous ; the other merges itself into the text of Beelzebub\'s Tales to His Grandson.
He left two accounts of it.
Gurdjieff clearly wanted his pupils to try to understand Objective Science