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Hidden Tarn, 2020. Paperback in new condition.. Originally presented at the All & Everything International Humanities Conference 2019; 55 pages. GURDJIEFF'S writing is permeated through and through with certain questions that also occupied Mesmer, maybe most notably, the question of influences, which perhaps reaches its highest expression, in Gurdjieff's astonishing and powerful idea of reciprocal maintenance. This is an idea which runs through Gurdjieff's "All and Everything" as a constant theme in various forms. Mesmer, too, in his writings, was unceasingly occupied with the idea of reciprocal exchange between "bodies" - from celestial bodies, to human beings, to animals and plants - in the form of incoming and outgoing currents, as he saw it. The idea of influences and reciprocal maintenance is explored here especially using the subject of attention and the connection with interpersonal influence in the field of healing, a field in which Gurdjieff was also a master, and itself inextricably bound… Read More

Paperback. Very Good.