Ouspensky

[oo-spen-skee, oo-spyen-skyee]

noun

1. Peter Demianovich 1878–1947, Russian philosopher and author.

Example Sentences

Descriptions of a mystical ‘fourth dimension’ by Russian mathematician Peter Ouspensky in the early 1900s resonate in their work, too.

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Ouspensky and Jung — and he has done so without being raptly worshipful or casually dismissive.

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Mixed in with the mumbo-jumbo about the "timestream" and "autosuggestive psychostasis" and "exclusion bins" are philosophies and physics from a boggling number of thinkers: St. Augustine, Ouspensky, Newton, Wittgenstein, Blake, Lamarck; the physics of Michelson-Morley and Heisenberg and Einstein.

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Wells’s great fantasies charged the batteries of mystically inclined intellectuals like Madame Blavatsky, G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky and especially Gorky, a celebrated writer on friendly terms with Chekhov, Tolstoy and Lenin.

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As Ouspensky says, we have created two lives—one material, the other spiritual.

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