Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

"Well then, these learned beings of Babylon belonging to the group ofmysterists indicated a variety of useful information and knowledge they hadattained by means of what is called the 'flow of associative movements' of theparticipants in these mysteries."Although the terrestrial three-brained beings of that time were wellacquainted with the law of the 'flow of associative movements,' noinformation whatever about these laws has reached contemporary beings."Since this 'flow of associative movements' does not proceed in thepresence of the three-brained beings who please you in the same way as in thepresence of other three-brained beings in general, and since there were quitespecial reasons for this, proper to them alone, I must first of all explain it toyou in rather more detail."The process itself is the same in them as in us, but in us it takes place onlywhen we are intentionally resting in order to allow the whole functioning ofour common presence to be free to transform, without hindrance from ourwill, every variety of being-energy required for an all-round active existence,whereas in them these various being-energies can now arise only during theirtotal inactivity, that is, during what they call their 'sleep,' and then of courseonly after a fashion."However, like all other three-brained beings of the whole of our GreatUniverse, they consist of three separate independent spiritualized parts, eachhaving a central place of concentration for all its functioning in a localizationof its own, which they call a 'brain ' Thus every impression, whether comingfrom without or arising from within, is perceived independently, inaccordance with its nature, by each of these brains of theirs And afterward—as is also proper to the presence of every kind of being without distinction ofbrain-system—these impressions, together with