Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am by G. I. Gurdjieff

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

SECOND TALK

delivered by me in the same

place to a much increased

assemblage

Last time, in the second half of my talk, I spoke about the supposition crystallized in me regarding the probable causes of the arising, as a result of wrongly interpreted ideas of mine, of a very undesirable particularity in the general psyche of people from various independent groups; today, I shall begin my explanations about the same, but exclusively in regard to you Americans previously composing as well as presently belonging to this group of people who have also become followers of my ideas.

Now, I want to present on this subject, after my special observations and investigations during these last days, an already completely determined opinion regarding just how and in what sequence were formed also among you here the conditions for the crystallization in your psyche of that pernicious factor on account of which, now, in most of you, to my sincere regret, instead of finding, in comparison with other people, data of a “higher level”—which obligatorily ought to have been formed during this time in you, as people who happened prematurely to come in contact with the truths learned by me through my half-century’s conscientious labors, almost incomprehensible for contemporary people, which give the possibility and chance to every man to obtain the Being of a real man—there is formed, as I can now impartially constate, something quite contrary.

Frankly speaking, almost everyone of you gives the impression of, and really is, a man who has all the data to become at any moment a client of one of those, on an American scale, organized houses in New York which are called “madhouses” and which are supported here by the followers of the English suffragettes.

For you Americans, the arising of this evil which formed itself in connection with my ideas began and gradually took a definite form thanks to the following events:

When, as I have already said, at the beginning of the second year of the existence of the Institute in France, I was compelled to take the decision, without waiting for the complete preparation of the material for demonstrations, to travel immediately to you Americans in order that here, among you, types still foreign to me, I should not be compelled to “live on beans mixed with thumbtacks” with such a large number of people indispensable for the realization of the aims I had in view, each of whom to my misfortune—as well as, later on, to the misfortune of many of your compatriots who have become through them the objects of my periodic chief speciality, which is “to shear half the wool of every near comer”-was at that period subject to a disease which in the psyche of the patient evokes, among other things, the habit of having in his pockets exclusively “a louse on a leash” in one and in the other “a flea on a chain,” I considered it a necessary preliminary then, in order that at least something might be prepared here in New

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