The Sly Way Gurdjieff & Ouspensky

Smart, savvy, brilliant! David Arthur Walters does it again, bringing his thought-contortionist skills to bear on the Gurdjieff-Ouspensky dynamics of The Fourth Way and other babble of philosophical import. Incisive, even hilarious, Walters pulls the rug out from under the well ordered arguments of early 20th century epistemic certainty, shining a spotlight on its excesses and toppling the hierarchy of dualist thought as anathema, according to Gurdjieff, to a fully liberated (awake) mind-self. We can almost imagine Gurdjieff on a hilltop with megaphone in hand, calling, "Sleep no more! The Fourth Way is here!" nudging our somnambulant selves into action, even if we have no idea what those actions could possibly be. Bravo to David Arthur Walters for this postmodernist homage to the sacred and the ridiculous, which is so vital for our times! Bring it on, David! (Melina Costello, author of Seeking the End of Ecstasy, and Tutti-frutti town, Blinky Blueberry finds a friend, featured in the author's Timely Intercourse on Groundhog Days)