Name: Brain Forest by Christian Doering
Duration: 5 min 25 s
Description: Live at 215 Main

Silence, arranged for guitar(s). 

A quick bit of inspiration flying by in preparation for a performance project in planning for early September 2016.

Guitar Studies

Silence

Silence (Charlie Haden)

Our customary way of thinking and talking about the world is in terms of objects and events, both of which are abstractions. Gurdjieff saw the world as the universal process of transformation of energies, regulated by two fundamental laws and various 'second-grade' laws arising from their interaction. The two basic realities are relations and transformations. The first are governed by the Law of Threefoldness variously called Triamonia and Triamazikamno and the second by the Law of Sevenfoldness called Eftalogodiksis or Heptaparaparshi- nokh. The interaction of these two laws is represented by the Enneagram symbol and by the Diagram of All Living referred to in Chapter II. It is also noteworthy that Gurdjieff refers in the Purgatory Chapter to a scale of energies of different 'degrees of vivifyingness', which is divided into twelve steps or stages. We find on close examination that all the first twelve numbers are associated with various laws or principles of the relationships and the transformations of substances. With the exception of the numbers five, seven and eleven, these are all obtained by combining two and three, as Plato does in his exposition of the Pythagorean doctrine in the Timaeus. Gurdjieff himself ascribes this knowledge to the Masters of Wisdom of Atlantis, again reminiscent of Timaeus. He departs however from the Platonic tradition in his description of Reciprocal Maintenance which has no place in Greek cosmology and did not enter European thinking until Gurdjieff came to the West.

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Brain Forest

Christian Doering

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