Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human PotentialExamines the teachings of Gurdjieff, Aikido, and Buddhism in regard to living a happy life, and discusses conditioning, consensus trance, defense mechanisms, false personalities, and higher levels of consciousness |
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Contents
States of Consciousness and Enlightenment | 3 |
part two Problems | 19 |
God and Reality | 21 |
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