CONTENTSIn Explorations in Active Mentation: Re-Membering Gurdjieff’s Teaching, A Grandchild’s Odyssey, author Keith A. Buzzell continues his study of Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. Thirteen essays and 135 color illustrations are framed by a biographical “Author’s Journey” and “Recommended Reading—Reference.”
Chapter 1Entirely New Principles
The Gurdjieff teaching: is it revolutionary? appropriate? sufficient? ~ scientific method and the third dimension ~ impending catastrophe, conscience and science
Chapter 2The Emergence of the Function of Emotion
Triadic nature of emotion ~ feeling and sensation ~ dimensions of the inner world ~ roles of the three brains ~ evolution of the second brain: relationship and responsibility ~ the “inner benevolent impulse”
Chapter 3The Paradox of Hypnotism
Negative and positive aspects of hypnotism ~ relativity of hypnotic states and relation to physiology ~ the Ray of Creation and essential/existential triads ~ the causal chain of hypnosis ~ the divided Zoostat ~ therapy and transformation ~ triadic view of hypnotic states
Chapter 4“… an Accursed Mirage”
Cosmic justice: the terrifying situation ~ significance of the “twos” ~ involution–evolution, the “clash” ~ Makary’s story ~ the partial pardon of Beelzebub ~ the mirage
Chapter 5The Duration of Being-existence
The Itoklanoz principle, an involutional octave ~ associations and experiencings ~ one-third death of a brain ~ Iransamkeep ~the Fulasnitamnian principle
Chapter 6Image as Man’s Three-brained Reality
The neurobiology of image formation in relation to work-on-oneself ~ three mentations ~ feeling-center as the carrier of reconciliation ~ relative realities ~ the sense-of-I ~ microcosmic image of the Trogoautoegocratic principle
Chapter 7The Cosmic Dimensions of Faith, Hope and Love
The cosmic origin of faith, hope and love ~ manifestations in the Ray of Creation ~ How are impulse, property and function manifested? ~ perception to impression ~ the three brains and the sacred impulses ~ attention and faith, hope and love
Chapter 8Being and Becoming — Ilnosoparno
How do we persist and yet change? ~ the deflections of Heptaparaparshinokh and Triamazikamno ~ the reconciliation of time ~ Can Triamazikamno be unbalanced?
Chapter 9The Power of Symbol
Symbol as a container and as a relationship ~ different brains, different symbols ~ the construction of “A Symbol of the Cosmos and Its Laws”
Chapter 10“In the beginning, when nothing yet existed …”
“Time” before the universe began ~ unification of forces ~ law precedes the emanation ~ Do attributes, motions and forms account for all and everything?
Chapter 11Gurdjieff’s Creation Myth
The “forced need” ~ What is time? ~ reconciliation of the Heropass ~ the creation myth as allegory of man’s possibilities ~the multiplications and creation
Chapter 12Transforming the Mind – Changing the Brain
How is the mind different from the brain? ~ a three-brained being as an image of the Trogoautoegocratic principle ~ inexactitude ~ three views of the multiplications and the transformative process
Chapter 13The Task
The unique needs of our time ~ Is individual transformation an end in itself? ~ creation of the “world existing in reality” ~ “… becoming a particle … of everything existing in the great Universe” ~ the Great Task
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 frontispiece
“The Effect of Hypnotism”
“The Cosmos’ Laws in Triadic Form”
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