Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West , which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel, Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible....

----- Table of Contents ----- - Foreword - Conference Program 2014 - Electrotherapy: Gurdjieff, Harharkh and Tesla, Poster Presentation: Debbie Elliott - Seminar Beelzebub's Tales, "France," chapter xxxvii - To Try and Fathom the Gist: Robin Bloor - On Objective Science in Beelzebub's Tales and its - Meaning for Us: John Clarke - Compassion: Required in Order to Become Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Russell Schreiber - Seminar Beelzebub's Tales, "Religion," chapter xxxvii - The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Cynthia Bourgeault - Divided Attention and the Search for Self: Stephen Aronson -...

Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934), whom G. B. Shaw declared the most brilliant editor of the past century, suddenly laid down his pencil in 1922 and sold his famous journal The New Age to work with the mystic G. Gurdjieff in France. Orage hoped that with Gurdjieff's help, he could come to a more fundamental understanding of the human species. For Orage, modern man had come to the end of his tether, and without the development of new faculties, he was convinced that the problems that pile up in front of mankind would not be solvable, and even the very will to live must decline.

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David Kherdian has given us his finest, most complete, and undoubtedly final book on his Midwestern hometown. Here we have in fifty odd "chapters" the places, people, artifacts, and events, as experienced by the people of Racine during the long middle years of the last century, in a luminous way that will provide an awakening for all who were there, and not just the people of Racine, but all Americans, especially those in America's rust belt. This is the universal story of our country during a defining period of our history, when we were living the promise of America, at its egalitarian best,...