Ouspensky
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Descriptions of a mystical ‘fourth dimension’ by Russian mathematician Peter Ouspensky in the early 1900s resonate in their work, too.
From Nature
Ouspensky and Jung — and he has done so without being raptly worshipful or casually dismissive.
From Washington Post
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From New York Times
As Ouspensky says, we have created two lives—one material, the other spiritual.
From Project Gutenberg
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