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| Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: AND All and Everything: All and Everything: AND All and Everything (Arkana) | 
 enlarge | Author: G. Gurdjieff
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 37148
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 2.3
ISBN: 0140194738
Dewey Decimal Number: 197
EAN: 9780140194739
ASIN: 0140194738
Publication Date: January 27, 2000
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 Great or not that is the question December 26, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great to those who are able to see beyond the words written. Total nonsence to those who can't. If you look for an easy read without having to do any inward work well maybe this isn't the book for you. Those working on inner discovery, well here is a challenge.
 worst book ever? June 10, 2004
11 out of 45 found this review helpful
Excrutiating masturbatory theosophy of the most boring kind. Way too long, horribly verbose and full of irritating 'clever' 'neologisms' in 'quotes' (and he wants you to read it 3 times!). Ok, there are some entertaining anecdotes here and there but they are buried in a world of unreadable pap. Oh right, it's supposed to be deliberately hard to read. But if you look at anything for long enough you should derive some value from it. In my opinion you'd be better off reading James Joyce for the many-level style insights into the human condition he seems to be aiming at here.
A chance to understand the terror of humanity's predicament. December 10, 2001
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
There are many books that have made me think 'Wow, I'll never be the same again after this'; that have, while reading them, inspired and excited me. But unfortunately, this feeling so soon fades, and the books are so often soon forgotten. Beelzebub's tales will remain with me. They are an effort to read, but they are very wise and very important for us in the state we are in as human beings. If you've been searching for an answer to explain the nagging feeling of something been wrong in the world, this book, I wager, holds it. It's quite funny too!
One of the most important books ever written. August 15, 1999
44 out of 47 found this review helpful
Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub Tales to His Grandson" is not your everyday type book. Its intentions are not to entertain, but to shock the reader into conscious awareness of the many mechanisms that control his/her own life. Ions after his fall from heaven we find Beelzebub completely transformed through experience into the wisest of beings. In a interplanetary mission to keep our galaxy in order, Beelzebub makes use of a delay to teach his grandson about many things of importance, and especially about those strange beings on the planet earth. The funny thing is that the reader becomes the grandson, and it is Gurdjieff whom teaches us about the reality of our unconscious "living". It is a book not intended to be an easy read, the book demands us to make great conscious efforts to understand the content and to keep alert. However, any effort put into the book is petty in comparison to the gain. "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" gives us a choice to remain the automatons we are, or to take a step into realizing our potential as conscious beings. It is one of the most important books...ever.
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