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Index
Introduction
Who This Book was Written For
The Danger of a Straightforward Presentation of Gurdjieff's Work
Note to Reader
Who Were Gurdjieff and Ouspensky?
This Primer Does Not Cover the Entire Teachings
What Is the Purpose of the Work?
The Difference Between Knowledge and Being
Where Do We Live?
Our Level of Being Attracts Our Life
The Good, the Bad, and the Purpose of the Work
Understanding Each Other and Our Level of Being
Good and Bad and the Concept of Aim
So What Is the Work About and How Is It Different?
Some of the Work's Assumptions—The Concept of Progress
The Work Assumption of Individual Effort
The Work Assumption Life Does Not Become Easy After Studying the Work
Who Can Study the Work?
The Magnetic Center and A, B, and C Influences
How the Work Views Man 1: Multiple Personalities and Lack of Unity
The Concept of Buffers
How the Work Views Man 2: Man Cannot Do, Everything Happens
Why Can't Man Do? Because He Is Asleep
What Is Self-Remembering?
What Keeps Us from Self-Remembering?
1. Identification
2. Internal Considering vs. External Considerin
3. Self-Justification
4. Self-Pity
What Are Some of the Consequences of Not-Remembering Ourselves?
1. The First Consequence is it Leads to Being in a Negative State
2. The Second Consequence is We Lose Force
3. The Third Consequence is We Become Violent
4. The Fourth Consequence is We Lose Contact with Our Higher Centers
How the Work Views Man 3: Personality and Essence
What Does the Work Say About False Personality and Imaginary ‘I’?
How Can We Change?
External and Internal Observation or Attention
What Is Involved in Self-Observation?
The “No-No's” of Self-Observation
The Taste of the Work
Observing Our Centers
The Concept of Buried Conscience
What Changes are Important from the Work Point of View?
The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding
Requirements in the Work That Lead to Understanding
Observing Ourselves: An Inside Job
What Changes Can We Make in the Beginning?
Our Chief Feature
We Are Under the Influence of Laws
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