>>7286652Here's a typical excerpt:
“MY DEAR and kind Grandfather, will you please explain to me, if only in a general way, why is it that the beings on the planet Earth take the ephemeral for the real?” To this question of his grandson, Beelzebub replied: “On the planet Earth this particularity in the psyche of the three-brained beings arose only during later periods; and it arose only because their predominant part, formed in them as in all three-brained beings, gradually allowed the other parts of their total presence to perceive every new impression without fulfilling what is called ‘being-partkdolgduty,’ that is to say, merely as such impressions are generally perceived by one or another of their independent localizations known as ‘being-centers.’ Or, to put it in their language, they believe everything anybody says, instead of believing only what they have been able to verify by their own ‘sane deliberation’—in other words, only those convictions they have reached as a result of confronting and evaluating the data already deposited in them, which have given rise to different conceptions in each of their localizations of diverse nature.”
also note that in the intro of the book Gurdji says something to the effect of "i wish this book could be sold with the first 30 pages uncut so you could return it and get your money back when you can't handle it"
it can definitely be frustrating to follow.
