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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: bentway who wrote (247470)3/15/2014 7:32:08 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (4) of 542213
 
I agree.

As mentioned before, Bertrand Russell arguably the most totally educated person of the last century and who lived to be 96 said: I searched my whole life and I found nothing." paraphrased except for the nothing part :>).

I have also searched and found nothing.

You and I are probably the only two people on SI who have read Gurdjieff.

Ouspensky was one of his students.

They are both right, IMO, about people living

"their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep"

Sometimes I feel I can sort of see that illusion.

en.wikipedia.org
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