CONTENTSKeith A. Buzzell’s Perspectives on Beelzebub’s Tales references primarily Gurdjieff’s All and Everything/Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, as well as Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous. Consisting of 12 chapters, the 228 pages contain 59 symbolic illustrations visually annotating Keith Buzzell’s thought process. Softbound, the book includes a full-color frontispiece, preface and introduction, an appendix, bibliography and glossary. Sized at 6 5/8” x 9 1/2″ x 3/4” the price is $35, ISBN# 9763579-0-9. Chapter 1The Enneagramatic Nature of Beelzebub’s Tales
Gurdjieff wrote The Tales just as he lived his life ~The enneagram as a ‘new language’, necessary for a new understanding ~ Examples of enneagramatic structure from the text of The Tales. References most specifically Chapter 39, “The Holy Planet `Purgatory’.”
Chapter 2Innocence–The Comet–The Exile
Life begins amid great vulnerability and great potential ~Influences affect the development of each individual just as every new life rehearses the previous experience of its deep origin. Refers mainly to chapters 2 and 17, “Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System” and “The Arch-Absurd.”
Chapter 3The Nature and Sources of Conviction
The actions of individuals, societies and cultures express their convictions ~ The brained nature of conviction ~ The basis of false convictions contrasted with objectively valid and impartial convictions. Refers to chapters 1 and 13, “The Arousing of Thought” and “Why in Man’s Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality.”
Chapter 4Kundabuffer
Kundabuffer is the most complex notion in The Tales ~ Physiological, psychological and symbolic parameters ~ Etymology ~ Consequences ~ A physical and neurological buffer, and a ‘mirror’. Relates to Chapter 21, “The First Visit of Beelzebub to India.”
Chapter 5‘Perpetual Motion’, that ‘Crazy Notion’
Inner world construction that runs by itself ~ Great loss and penalties ~ The ‘clever’ weight ~ Real perpetual motion of ‘Hariton’. Relates to Chapter 6, “Perpetual Motion.”
Chapter 6Pearls and the Custom
Tiny steps that lead to war ~ Inner image of the pearl ~Sacrifice of the brains. References Chapter 21, “The First Visit of Beelzebub to India.”
Chapter 7Looisos: the Law and the Custom
The involutional flow of law ~ The unbalanced Law of Three ~ The shifting center-of-gravity ~ The moon and personality ~ Sacrificial-Offerings. Relates to Chapter 19, “Beelzebub’s Tales About His Second Descent on to the Planet Earth.”
Chapter 8The ‘True’ and the ‘Sorry’ Scientist
‘Objective science’ versus ‘lopsided’ learning ~ Struggle for balance in each brain ~ Model of a harmoniously developed ‘true’ scientist. Relates to Chapter 41, “The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov.”
Chapter 9Gurdjieff’s ‘hydrogens’
The universe as a continuum of energies ~ Triadic nature of the ‘hydrogens’ ~ Mass and non-mass ~ Electromagnetism and the higher ‘hydrogens’ ~ Images, photons, attention and the will. Relates to Chapter 18, “The Arch-preposterous.”
Chapter 10An Evolutionary Perspective on the Higher Centers
Biology of the brains ~ Higher centers and Darwinian evolution ~ Three octave parallels in digestion ~ Science and man’s possible evolution
Chapter 11The Emergence of the Possibility of Individual Reason
The natural appearance of ‘independence’ ~ Directed attention ~ Man’s three worlds ~ Reason as a distant possibility. Relates to chapters 39 and 47, “The Holy Planet `Purgatory’” and “The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation.”
Chapter 12To ‘ruffle’ the Perceptions
Allegory as fundamental ~ Images contradictory, absurd, consistent ~ Logical confrontations ~ Inner “clash” ~ Levels of the subconscious. Relates to many chapters but especially to Chapter 1, “The Arousing of Thought.”
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