The Life & Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Part I - Gurdjieff in Egypt: The Origin of Esoteric Knowledge
by William Patrick Patterson
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Actor: William Patrick PattersonDirector: William Patrick Patterson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-02
Studio: Arete Communications
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DVD Review: a nice introduction
Summary: 5 Stars
The medium of video forces a discipline on creators: you have no choice but to present brief summaries of whatever subject you are dealing with. The kind of depth that exists in written works simply isn't possible. Video has its advantages, of course, but exposition isn't one of them.
Patterson, who is really a writer by trade, not a videographer, does a great job of selecting the key points he wants to communicate. He repeats them as he builds his case, step by step. He has a sincere and composed screen presence. And somehow, the atmosphere of sacredness and antiquity that this subject matter commands comes across despite the limited budget and the limited experience of these filmmakers.
Patterson has always given far too much credence to Gurdjieff and here, as usual, he simply takes everything the little cult leader said at face value; he also takes Schwaller de Lubicz's wild conjecture that the temple at Luxor is based on the human body as a given. There is much of value in both Gurdjieff and de Lubicz, but one must be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Nevertheless, the basic insights are correct. That true esoteric knowledge was transmitted from a lost civilization to ancient Egypt, and that Egypt's glyphs and monuments symbolically communicate that knowledge: these things are beyond reasonable question to the mind of anyone who is deeply familiar with the subjects (on the internal level as much as the mental; little more can be explained in words). They have been taken for granted by real occultists for more than a century. Given the rapid pace of discovery and historical revision it entails, it is likely they will be taken for granted by everyone in another century, if indeed world civilization lasts that long.
If you don't know anything about these subjects, you need this dvd badly. It could be a first step in a journey towards reality. Just be careful to always take the Gurdjieff worshippers with a grain of salt. (I agree with Patterson when he says that Egypt is the source of Christianity, which is a distorted version of Egyptian religion --itself a distortion of something far earlier and far greater- and that Gurdjieff was a Christian. That is precisely why I reject him...)
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