Pd ouspensky biography
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[OUSPENSKY] How can you speak to mother, grandmother, about former lives even when you learn to talk? They will lock you up. I remembered very well. I was very lonely. I had to wait for sister to be born and then to learn to speak, three, four years perhaps, before I had someone to talk to.
Then it used to happen often like this: she used to look out of window and tell me about people she saw. There was very good combination in our street, policeman first, then postman, like that. She used to know who would come round corner because she remembered.
She would say (only we used our own baby language), &#;Now there will be policeman.&#; I say, &#;And now will come tax collector,&#; and he came. When we did this often I said to her, &#;Shall we tell mother, grandmother?&#; And little sister would say, &#;What use to tell mother, grandmother? They don&#;t know, they don&#;t understand anything.&#; Just think, I was five, she was three.ii
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The Gurdjieff Legacy Foundation Archives
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was born in Moscow on March 5, 1 His parents were part of Russia's intelligentsia, the educated elite; his mother a painter with an interest in Russian and French literature; his father, a Survey Service officer, fond of music, painting and the idea of the Fourth Dimension. Working as a journalist for newspapers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, he also wrote and self-published a number of books. Believing there existed another reality "beyond the thin film of false reality" that was ordinary life, he searched for "a new or forgotten road"—what he called "the miraculous"—which would "allow a penetration into this unknown reality." He made two journeys to the East, the first in , the second in He found esoteric schools but realized they were not of "the rational kind" for which he was searching. In April he met G. I. Gurdjieff, and the following year recruited a group in St. Petersburg and, with reluctance, joined it. His relationship with Gurdjieff was difficult; he left Gurdjieff first in Essentuki the summer of and then again in Constantinople in August when he immigrated to England. Finally, in January , Ouspensky broke for good and started his own line of
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Peter D. Ouspensky
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