Eating the I: A Direct Account of the Fourth Way- The Way of Using Ordinary Life to Come to Real Life (In Search of the Self), Revised & Expanded Edition
This is an intimate account of one man's spiritual search through The Work, an esoteric Gurdjieff movement. The narrative focuses on "the collision that occurs between the teaching and the 'I,' the conditioned self-identity." Patterson's account is gripping as he struggles to be accepted into The Work, as he struggles with himself in the process of The Work, as he flirts with teachers and ideas from other traditions, and as he officially leaves The Work and shortly thereafter attends his mentor's funeral. The Work philosophy and Patterson's attempt at self-transformation in the midst of ordinary experience is quite revealing. Recommended for large libraries of all types.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.