"Gurdjieff, G I - Beelzebubs Tales To His Grandson" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gurdjieff G I)

Well, enough of "philologizing." Let us return to the main task of this initial chapter, destined, among
other things, on the one hand to stir up the drowsy thoughts in me as well as in the reader, and, on the
other, to warn the reader about something.
And so, I have already composed in my head the plan and sequence of the intended expositions, but what
form they will take on paper, I, speaking frankly, myself do not as yet know with my consciousness, but
with my subconsciousness I already definitely feel that on the whole it will take the form of something
which will be, so to say, "hot", and will have an effect on the entirety of every reader such as the red
pepper pods had on the poor Transcaucasian Kurd.
Now that you have become familiar with the story of our common countryman, the Transcaucasian Kurd,
I already consider it my duty to make a confession and hence before continuing this first chapter, which
is by way of an introduction to all my further predetermined writings, I wish to bring to the knowledge of
what is called your "pure waking consciousness" the fact that in the writings following this chapter of
warning I shall expound my thoughts intentionally in such sequence and with such "logical
confrontation", that the essence of certain real notions may of themselves automatically, so to say, go
from this "waking consciousness"—which most people in their ignorance mistake for the real
consciousness, but which I affirm and experimentally prove is the fictitious one—into what you call the
subconscious, which ought to be in my opinion the real human consciousness, and there by themselves
mechanically bring about that transformation which should in general proceed in the entirety of a man
and give him, from his own conscious mentation, the results he ought to have, which are proper to man
and not merely to single- or double-brained animals.
I decided to do this without fail so that this initial chapter of mine, predetermined as I have already said
to awaken your consciousness, should fully justify its purpose, and reaching not only your, in my
opinion, as yet only fictitious "consciousness", but also your real consciousness, that is to say, what you
call your subconscious, might, for the first time, compel you to reflect actively.
In the entirety of every man, irrespective of his heredity and education, there are formed two independent
consciousnesses which in their functioning as well as in their manifestations have almost nothing in
common. One consciousness is formed from the perception of all kinds of accidental, or on the part of
others intentionally produced, mechanical impressions, among which must also be counted the
"consonances" of various words which are indeed as is said empty; and the other consciousness is formed
from the so to say, "already previously formed material results" transmitted to him by heredity, which
have become blended with the corresponding parts of the entirety of a man, as well as from the data
arising from his intentional evoking of the associative confrontations of these "materialized data" already
in him.
The whole totality of the formation as well as the manifestation of this second human consciousness,
which is none other than what is called the "subconscious", and which is formed from the "materialized
results" of heredity and the confrontations actualized by one's own intentions, should in my opinion,
formed by many years of my experimental elucidations during exceptionally favorably arranged
conditions, predominate in the common presence of a man.
As a result of this conviction of mine which as yet doubtlessly seems to you the fruit of the fantasies of
an afflicted mind, I cannot now, as you yourself see, disregard this second consciousness and, compelled
by my essence, am obliged to construct the general exposition even of this first chapter of my writings,
namely, the chapter which should be the preface for everything further, calculating that it should reach,
and in the manner required for my aim "ruffle", the perceptions accumulated in both these
consciousnesses of yours.
Continuing my expositions with this calculation, I must first of all inform your fictitious consciousness
that, thanks to three definite peculiar data which were crystallized in my entirety during various periods
of my preparatory age, I am really unique in respect of the so to say "muddling and befuddling" of all the
notions and convictions supposedly firmly fixed in the entirety of people with whom I come in contact.
Tut! Tut! Tut! … I already feel that in your "false"—but according to you "real"—consciousness, there
are beginning to be agitated, like "blinded flies", all the chief data transmitted to you by heredity from