By P. D. Ouspensky
This variation of The Psychology of Man's attainable Evolution includes a lecture, now not formerly released, within which Ouspensky givers a few info of the "School of the Fourth Way," with which he was once hooked up, and an account of a few of its primary rules, equipment, and rules.
The psychology Ouspensky units forth during this introductory lectures has existed in a single shape or one other for millions of years and, in contrast to smooth psychology, experiences guy from the viewpoint of what he may well turn into. as soon as a guy realizes how little regulate he has over his reactions to exterior situations and inner stimuli, he might need to discover how to becomoe freed from this mechanical manner of living.
Ouspensky describes how a guy needs to paintings at the same time on his wisdom and his being to discover internal solidarity and why even supposing his improvement is dependent upon his personal efforts, this can be very tricky to accomplish with out information from a "School."
Read or Download Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution PDF
Similar social theory books
Craft of Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries
The paintings of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, during the last twenty years, as essentially the most mammoth and cutting edge our bodies of thought and study in modern social technological know-how.
The Craft of Sociology, either a textbook and an unique contribution to epistemology in social technological know-how, makes a speciality of a simple challenge of sociological examine: the need of an epistemological holiday with the preconstructed gadgets social perform deals to the researcher.
Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue within the epistemological culture of students like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a convention that identifies the development of the article as being the basic medical act.
Their approach of discussing the difficulty makes it available not just to lecturers and specialists of epistemology, but additionally to complicated scholars of social technology, utilizing for representation a variety of texts from some of the social sciences in addition to from philosophy of technological know-how. The booklet comprises an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an creation by way of the editor to his sociological method.
We take heed to a cacophony of voices educating us how one can imagine and think approximately nature, together with our personal our bodies. the scoop media, flora and fauna documentaries, technological know-how magazines, and environmental NGOs are between these clamouring for our consciousness. yet are we empowered by means of all this information or is our dependence on a variety of groups permitting our options, sentiments and actions to be unduly ruled by means of others?
Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
In a super sequence of books approximately social habit, together with The Presentation of Self in lifestyle, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has uncovered all that's at stake while humans meet head to head. Goffman’s paintings, as soon as of the nice highbrow achievements of our time, is an forever attention-grabbing observation on how we enact ourselves by means of our responses to and our readings of different humans.
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
The drawback of the revolutionary flow is so obvious that not anything below a basic rethinking of its simple assumptions is needed. brand new progressives now paintings for pro organisations more well-off with the interior video game in Washington DC (and capitols during the West), the place they're outmatched and outspent through company pursuits.
- Art as a Social System (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
- Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
- The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2nd Edition)
- Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 65)
Extra resources for Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution
Example text
Inscriptions or impressions on rolls are connected by associations. Associations connect impressions either received simultaneously or in some way similar to one another. In my first lecture I said that memory depends on consciousness and that we actually remember only the moments when we had flashes of consciousness. It is quite clear that different simultaneous impressions connected together will remain longer in memory than unconnected impressions. In the flash of self-consciousness, or even near it, all impressions of the moment are connected and remain connected in the memory.
And all this happens in one second or less. It is a miracle, and at the same time it is not. For, if we know the difference in the speed of centres and remember that the instinctive centre, which has to do this work, has 30, 000 times more time than the intellectual centre by which we measure our ordinary time, we can understand how it may happen. It means that the instinctive centre has not one second, but about eight hours of its own time for this work, and in eight hours this work can certainly be done in an ordinary laboratory without any unnecessary haste.
It is quite clear that different simultaneous impressions connected together will remain longer in memory than unconnected impressions. In the flash of self-consciousness, or even near it, all impressions of the moment are connected and remain connected in the memory. The same refers to impressions connected by their inner similarity. If one is more conscious in the moment of receiving impressions, one connects more definitely the new impressions with similar old impressions and they remain connected in memory.