1.5 Seekers and Suckers
Last modified 06/27/2008
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One's overall impression of the Gurdjieff legacy, for reasons we can now
suspect, is one of exploitation, and more explicitly the exploitation of the
'search'. The very delineation into 'esoteric' and 'exoteric' lends itself to
this, with the thought of a wild-goose chase coming to the fore. The spurious
idea of a 'school', discovered only after endless search, generates an
atmosphere of mystery for what in the final analysis is recycled 'hermetic
flotsma' with a new twist.
Gurdjieff spoke the phenomenon of 'suggestibility', evidently the exercise is to exploit, this being the cure for those who must learn the hard way the nature of their suggestibility. It might be an important question to ask, what is the actual basis for the esoteric? There is none. Only those who care to divulge the nature of the aims and methods, and those who do not. Perhaps the term 'esoteric' is a handy evasion of the ethical problematic that arises when a 'spiritual' authority sees fit to tell a pack of lies!
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