Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal, 1985-1997
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826411037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An elegant book." according to Johnno. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."This. "Invaluable" according to Mark Semon. There are many, many books on "Spirituality, "New Age", "Religious Traditions", etc. Most are informative, but few offer substantial help to the seeker. Mr. Segal's book is one of those few. His words carry an energy that calms and opens, their content offers in-sights and practices which truly are helpful.The presentation is in prose, poetry, sketches by the author, interviews. "Nosce te ipsum" according to David Pantano. No other book in quite some time has assaulted the perceptual foundations of conditioned self with such a thud as William Segal's Opening. Clear of all psycho-pompous fluff, the author painstakingly communicates with a minimalist Zen touch the subtle processes unlocking consciousness from the quotidian of programmed mentation. Opening is not so much a literary undertaking as it
Segal, judging by this book, is unusual not only for the subtlety and depth of his knowledge, and for his ability to manifest it through a variety of media--the book contains essays, aphorisms, prose poems, paintings and records of conversation (three interviews)--but also for his ability to relate comprehensions both Western (the initial essay, "Opening," begins with a quotation by Meister Eckhart) and Eastern (Zen influences abound) into his meditations, which seem guided primarily by Gurdjieff's monumental synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritualities. Each page in this volume offers a hint, an encouragement, a remembrance of a more profound level of awareness, perhaps attainable even while engaged in an act so heady as reading: "Quietly watching, anticipating nothing, I am open to what is here, now," Segal writes. "I look at myself reading these wor
Gurdjieff (d. Segal himself has been the subject of two films by American documentary maker Ken Burns, whose credits include television series, "The American West" and "The Civil War".. The writer and director Peter Brook made a film of Gurdjieff's most famous work, "Meetings with Remarkable Men" in 1976. "Opening" is intended for those who wish to know themselves, who want to understand better the human structure, its limitations, and its possibilities. 1949), the mystic who inspired artists and thinkers in the areas of philosophy, esotericism, dance, yoga, music and art. Its aim is to prepare one for a more intelligent, to show a way toward fulfulling one's role as a true human being. It takes its wisdom from the work of G.I