The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P. D. Ouspensky

By P. D. Ouspensky

This variation of The Psychology of Man's attainable Evolution includes a lecture, no longer formerly released, during which Ouspensky givers a few information of the "School of the Fourth Way," with which he was once hooked up, and an account of a few of its primary rules, tools, and rules.

The psychology Ouspensky units forth during this introductory lectures has existed in a single shape or one other for hundreds of thousands of years and, in contrast to smooth psychology, reviews guy from the viewpoint of what he may well turn into. as soon as a guy realizes how little keep an eye on he has over his reactions to exterior situations and inner stimuli, he might need to discover how to becomoe freed from this mechanical method of living. 

Ouspensky describes how a guy needs to paintings at the same time on his wisdom and his being to discover internal team spirit and why even if his improvement depends upon his personal efforts, this can be very tricky to accomplish with out tips from a "School."

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But if knowledge is so important in madness, it is not because the latter can control the secrets of knowledge; on the contrary, madness is the punishment of a disorderly and useless science. If madness is the truth of knowledge, it is because knowledge is absurd, and instead of addressing itself to the great book of experience, loses its way in the dust of books and in idle debate; learning becomes madness through the very excess of false learning. O vos doctores, qui grandia normina fertis Respicite antiquos patris, jurisque peritos.

The cities and villages which had thus rid themselves of their crazed and crazy, could now take pleasure in watching the exciting sideshow when a ship full of foreign lunatics would dock at their harbors. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw much social unrest and economic depression, which they tried to solve by imprisoning the indigents with the criminals and forcing them to work. The demented fitted quite naturally between those two extremes of social maladjustment and iniquity. A nice and hallowed tradition has labeled Tuke and Pinel as the saviors of the mentally ill, but the truth of the matter is not so simple.

The sinner who abandons the leper at his door opens his way to heaven. ” Abandonment is his salvation; his exclusion offers him another form of communion. Leprosy disappeared, the leper vanished, or almost, from memory; these structures remained. Often, in these same places, the formulas of exclusion would be repeated, strangely similar two or three centuries later. Poor vagabonds, criminals, and “deranged minds” would take the part played by the leper, and we shall see what salvation was expected from this exclusion, for them and for those who excluded them as well.

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