Ouspensky Bennett (14 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Printing. First printing, mass market paperback, has very slight bumps to spine ends and corners, a hint of very slight edgewear, and some very faint rubbing, otherwise a bright, solid VG+ copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. NrF Shadow From Sticker Remove/Near Fine light Edge Darkened. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Old owner's name inside front cover. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Very neat --a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. CLOSED TEAR TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some wear and yellowing to jacket and text. Pages are neat and unmarked.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 8vo, 176 pp., Edited & with an introduction by J.G. Bennett; translated by Katya Petroff. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Introduced and edited by J. G. Bennett. Translated by Katya Petroff. The two unrelated stories in this book, "The Inventor" and "The Benevolent Devil," were written just before Ouspensky met Gurdjieff and just after he had returned from the East, "in search of the miraculous." They examine the whole question of conscious evil and the view that humanity's chief error is believing that the material world is the only reality. The Inventor is an allegorical story about a man faced with the consequences of modern science and technology. Ouspensky insisted that evil is seldom performed with conscious intent, but most often the result of our hypnotically conditioned state of sleep, automatic actions and responses, and the absence of intention, for which we are indirectly responsible because it is actually in our power to awaken. This theme runs throughout the story as the inventor seems to do harm particularly when he intends to do good, and cannot bring himself to accept the disastrous consequences of his own works of genius. In The Benevolent Devil, a young English civil servant living in Ceylon determines to do battle for his soul. He must confront the devil, who seeks to prevent him from waking from his imprisonment in materiality only because he will not face and accept the truth that reality is not of this world. The suggestion that runs through both stories - that devils are interested in us only when we make a real effort to escape - represents a viewpoint to which Ouspensky often returned. He felt that only a few people are able to recognize that the price of doing the right thing is inevitably to expose oneself to opposition and even to the threat of destruction. Ouspensky intuitively knew that some people see reality while the majority see only appearances, a realization even more relevant today than when he wrote these stories over eighty years ago. He felt that if enough people can see and accept the challenge to awaken, we can change the world. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 176 pages. No Dust Jacket as published. Black titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Philosophy; Fiction; Esoteric; Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 1578631645. ISBN/EAN: 9781578631643. Inventory No: 4898.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Attractive, pictorial dust jacket in protective mylar. Book.

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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 144 Seiten No dust jacket. Good condition. Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 458.