GURDJIEFF, G.I. – Life is real only then, when I am - Integral Book

denly remembered crumbs of the general quantity of information theyhad heard at the Institute and profiting, consciously or unconsciously—that has no importance for the given case—from the generalunbalancedness of mind arisen as a lawful consequence of the WorldWar, decided to "prophesize" my new ideas.As each of these pupils of the Institute founded by me, in the sense ofhis "subjective being," belonged as yet only to the mentioned exotericgroup, that is to say, still had the being of an ordinary average man andconsequently possessed fully the inherencies which are proper tocontemporary man, among which, obligatorily and inevitably, is this,that he can be interested and take in from everything new to him onlywhat corresponds to his own already-established subjectivity and makeit the center of gravity of his mentation, they, taking this as a basis,began among the people-victims of the mentioned "unbalancedness ofmind" to prophesize in a onesided way verbally, as well as by literature,the information assimilated by them "one bit here and one bit there"which they had heard from me personally or from my old pupils whowere prepared by me for a future spreading of my ideas on a large scale.Here it is interesting to note that at that time my own self almostceased so to say "to annoy" the attention of these people who were moreor less acquainted with my instructions.From the numerous definite facts elucidated during my recent specialobservations in regard to the causes of the arising of a certain specificproperty in the psyche of people who have become followers of myideas, I think that it will be, for now, enough to note, by the way, that atpresent, for all the people existing in different countries who have inone way or another become followers of my ideas, the totality of