G. I. Gurdjieff

Life is Real Only Then, When "I am" G. I. Gurdjieff

All and Everything: Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the Third Series.



FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of "An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man," or, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson."
SECOND SERIES: Three books under the common title of "Meetings with Remarkable Men."
THIRD SERIES: Four books under the common title of "Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am.' "



All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and strictly directed towards the solution of the following three cardinal problems:



FIRST SERIES: To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.
THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, non-fantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.



This unedited edition has been compiled from the typescripts from the papers of Muriel Draper and J. G. Bennett.
The chapters are in the following order:
Book I: The First Chapter of the Third Series, The First Lecture-Talk, Second "Lecture-Talk," Third "Lecture-Speech," The Fourth "Lecture-Talk."
Book IV: Prologue, The Outer and Inner World of Man.
Numeration of each separate paragraph of Book IV has been retained.



ISBN: 978-0-9572481-9-9 (Solita Solano & Jane Heap Typeset Edition)
ISBN: 978-0-9572481-6-8 (Facsimile Typescript Edition)
ISBN: 978-0-9954756-0-1 (The Set)