{"title":"A R Orage","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the insightful writings of A.R. Orage, a key figure in 20th-century literary modernism and social commentary. Discover his essays, criticism, and philosophical works, perfect for readers interested in Pound, Eliot, and the intellectual ferment of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-love-psychological-exercises-book-a-orage-9781578631001","title":"On Love \u0026 Psychological Exercises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn invaluable resource for students of self-development, especially those with a particular interest in the ideas of George Gurdjieff and Pyotr Ouspensky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While editing a publication he cofounded, \u003ci\u003eThe New Age\u003c\/i\u003e, A. R. Orage formed a study group of practicing psychologists--including Dr. Maurice Nicoll, one of Jung's foremost exponents--to study psychoanalysis. They reached the conclusion that the need in psychology was not psychoanalysis but, \u003ci\u003epsycho-synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon his introduction to P. D. Ouspensky, and the ideas of Gurdjieff, Orage informed his group that psycho-synthesis had arrived.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Orage wrote On Love after spending years working with Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way System. The three essays, \"On Love,\" \"On Religion,\" and \"What Is the Soul?\" explore personal self-development. These essays are still practical, timely, and important to students who seek a clear understanding of the self.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePsychological Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of work with both Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and was written during the seven years Orage spent organizing Fourth Way study groups for Gurdjieff in the United States. It presents 200-plus psychological exercises designed to increase the flexibility and scope of our minds by working with numbers, words, verses, and images. These exercises pick up where conventional education leaves off, teaching us to hone the conscious and deliberate manipulation of our mental resources. Included are 15 essays covering various aspects of self-development such as: how not to be bored, economizing personal energy, acquiring intuition, controlling our tempers, and learning to observe and think.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510244057361,"sku":"GOR004435252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52602061029649,"sku":"CIN1578631009VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1578631009.jpg?v=1751374423"},{"product_id":"orage-as-critic-book-a-r-orage-9780710079824","title":"Orage as Critic","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50625879146769,"sku":"GOR014015901","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51354807435537,"sku":"GOR008836861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0710079826.jpg?v=1751074681"},{"product_id":"gurdjieff-s-emissary-in-new-york-book-a-r-orage-9780995475649","title":"Gurdjieff's Emissary in New York","description":"Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934), whom G. B. Shaw declared the most brilliant editor of the past century, suddenly laid down his pencil in 1922 and sold his famous journal \u003cem\u003eThe New Age\u003c\/em\u003e to work with the mystic G. Gurdjieff in France. Orage hoped that with Gurdjieff's help, he could come to a more fundamental understanding of the human species. For Orage, modern man had come to the end of his tether, and without the development of new faculties, he was convinced that the problems that pile up in front of mankind would not be solvable, and even the very will to live must decline. \u003cp\u003e Gurdjieff claimed to have found a way to develop new and higher faculties, and to have been trained in the necessary methods and knowledge which had its sources in the hidden wisdom of the East. Orage worked intensively for more than a year with Gurdjieff in his \u003cem\u003eInstitute for the Harmonious Development of Man\u003c\/em\u003e, and it seems that he had found what he was seeking. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Gurdjieff, on the other hand, found in Orage someone whom he considered a brother in spirit. A spirit that was defined by Orage some years before as: . . . displaying itself in disinterested interest in things; in things, that is to say, of no personal advantage, but only of general, public or universal importance. When Gurdjieff expanded his activities into the New World, it was only consequent that Orage became his emissary there. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Orage arrived in New York in December 1923 to expound Gurdjieff's ideas, and until 1931, was talking to a growing group of interested people. This book contains the notes of many of these talks. We are grateful to the notetakers and their prudence to leave their papers to the universities of Yale, Berkeley and Leeds, who guaranteed the survival of these papers in their archives. Without all this combined effort, they would otherwise be scattered all over the world, largely unknown and upon the verge of being irrecoverably lost as C. Daly King once wrote. 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