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Posted by jfive on July 29, 2000 at 04:11:35:
kathleen riordan speeth, a psychologist into gurdjieff, wrote some intro books. ran across a nice intro to the 3 major centers in one of her books,( head, heart, gut). "One person may depend more on head than heart, for example, while another may allow emotion to hold sway over him where logic fails. Everyone is born with one "brain" predisposed to predominate over the other two." She uses numbers 1,2,3 to mean something different than egram types. 1 is gut type, 2 is heart type, 3 is head... All 3 lack inner will and unity. interestingly(to me, anayway) she says... "Men nos. 123 differ from one another in their habits, tastes, and styles of life. THEY CORRESPOND ROUGHLY TO SHELDON'S VARIETIES OF PHYSIQUE." ie, endo, meso, ecto..., etc. "...which proves to be a very good fit for Gurdjieff's (system). In literary terms we can see them as 3 familiar Shakespearian characters: Falstaff (gut), Prince Hal (heart), and Hamlet (head) "For each of these three basic types there is a form of art, a form of music, a kind of religious practice that is most appealing. Man 1 is moved by pomp and ceremony, by sacred rites and holy repetitions, while man 2 has an affinity for prayer and devoted sacrifice before god or guru. Man 3 theologizes, categorizes, debates and disputes in his almost tropistic orientation toward wisdom." gut - karmic yoga, fakirs heart - bhakti yoga, monks head - jnana yoga, yogis She even has a drawing with all 3 of Sheldon's basic body types represented. the major triads r the hidden key to understanding the egram.
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