{"product_id":"beelzebubs-tales-to-his-grandson-all-and-everything-compass-9780140194739","title":"Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson All and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one's daily life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eBeelzebub's Tales to His Grandson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eG. I. Gurdjieff\u003c\/b\u003e intended to destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world. This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of \u003cb\u003eBeelzebub's Tales to His Grandson\u003c\/b\u003e--the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeelzebub's Tales to His Grandson\u003cb\u003eFirst Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Arousing of Thought\u003cbr\u003e2. Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System\u003cbr\u003e3. The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak\u003cbr\u003e4. The Law of Falling\u003cbr\u003e5. The System of Archangel Hariton\u003cbr\u003e6. Perpetual Motion\u003cbr\u003e7. Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty\u003cbr\u003e8. The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub's Grandson, Dares to Call Men \"Slugs\"\u003cbr\u003e9. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon\u003cbr\u003e10. Why \"Men\" Are Not Men\u003cbr\u003e11. A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man\u003cbr\u003e12. The First \"Growl\"\u003cbr\u003e13. Why in Man's Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality\u003cbr\u003e14. The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful\u003cbr\u003e15. The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e16. The Relative Understanding of Time\u003cbr\u003e17. The Arch-absurd: According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats\u003cbr\u003e18. The Arch-preposterous\u003cbr\u003e19. Beelzebub's Tales About His Second Descent onto the Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e20. The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e21. The First Visit of Beelzebub to India\u003cbr\u003e22. Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet\u003cbr\u003e23. The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e24. Beelzebub's Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time\u003cbr\u003e25. The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash, Sent from Above to the Earth\u003cbr\u003e26. The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of \"The Terror-of-the-Situation\"\u003cbr\u003e27. The Organization for Man's Existence\u003cbr\u003e28. The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e30. Art\u003cbr\u003e31. The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth\u003cbr\u003e32. Hypnotism\u003cbr\u003e33. Beelzebub as Professional Hypnotist\u003cbr\u003e34. Russia\u003cbr\u003e35. A Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship Karnak\u003cbr\u003e36. Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans\u003cbr\u003e37. France\u003cbr\u003e38. Religion\u003cbr\u003e39. The Holy Planet \"Purgatory\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThird Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e40. Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Againt Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh\u003cbr\u003e41. The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov\u003cbr\u003e42. Beelzebub in America\u003cbr\u003e43. Beelzebub's Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men, or Beelzebub's Opinion of War\u003cbr\u003e44. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Understanding of Justice Is for Him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage\u003cbr\u003e45. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Extraction of Electricity from Nature and Its Destruction During Its Use, Is One of the Chief Causes of the Shortening of the Life of Man\u003cbr\u003e46. Beelzebub Explains to His Grandson the Significance of the Form and Sequence Which He Chose for Expounding the Information Concerning Man\u003cbr\u003e47. The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation\u003cbr\u003e48. From the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732349628759,"sku":"9780140194739","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beelzebubs-tales-to-his-grandson-all-and-everything-compass-9780140194739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}