Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the World

by P.D. Ouspensky

Book Overview

The revised translation of the world famous Russian philosopher's work about attempting to understand man and his place in creation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394513509
• ISBN13: 9780394513508
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Our time is really motion through extradimensional space

This is one of those great Books that has suffered because of a lack of readership capable of comprehending it. If one has the left brain traits necessary to grasp the transfinite logic and mathematics, then the mystical implications are ungraspable. And if you have the right brain intuition to understand the mystical implications, then you often struggle with the logic and mathematics. This book requires a reader with not only a first rate mind, but also a balanced one.To briefly abstract the primary thesis: time is really motion in extra dimensional space. This is profound, for Ouspensky was the first to actually point towards where an actual, physical fourth dimension can be found. Our brains confuse this dimension with time. It can be split off from time with an adjustment, or evolution, of consciousness. You see, this represents the next huge leap in understanding the nature of the universe and reality. Just as Newton's undefined quantity of "gravity" was shown to actually be curved space, so does Ouspensky show Einstein's undefined quantity of "time" to be motion through higher physical dimensions.If you want a book that will challenge you, this is it. One day these ideas are going to shake the very foundations of mainstream science, of mankind's collective view of "reality"....

Excellent reading for higher dimensional truths

P.D. Ouspensky lucidly and along definite philosophical reasonings guides the reader from our 3-dimensional world to higher dimensional realities. As humans we perceive the "World" not as it is, but rather as our perceptive faculties communicate it to us. Therein lies the difficulty of comprehending higher orders (our own hard wiring). Ouspensky's greatness is his ability to elucidate higher truths by straightforward analogy and reasoning. The author marries the ideas and teachings of many great thinkers into one multifaceted format. Mystical teachings are explained from a scientific slant and revolutionary scientific Ideas lead to a mystical end. The ultimate aim is to lead the reader to the ultimate truth of "THOU ART THAT" or "I AM".

Absolutely Fantastic Brain Software

This book is amazing. It will help you see everything in the fourth dimension. The text might seem a little thick at first, but it soon becomes pleasantly hypnotic, and all of the sudden the program is run and there you stand in a fourth-dimensional world. You won't be able to put it down.

unbeatable

Much of what Ouspensky wrote on these matters is so original and so brilliant that it has yet to be equaled; writers on fourth-dimensional matters still quote from his books. For all practical purposes Gurdjieff destroyed the man who wrote this book; whether that was for good or ill I leave it to readers to decide.

Excellent material for higher dimensional truths.

P.D. Ouspensky lucidly and along definite philosophical reasonings guides the reader from our 3-dimensional world to higher dimensional realities. As humans we perceive the "World" not as it is, but rather as our perceptive faculties communicate it to us. Therein lies the difficulty of comprehending higher orders (our own hard wiring). Ouspensky's greatness is his ability to elucidate higher truths by straightforward analogy and reasoning. The author marries the ideas and teachings of many great thinkers into one multifaceted format. Mystical teachings are explained from a scientific slant and revolutionary scientific Ideas lead to a mystical end. The ultimate aim is to lead the reader to the ultimate truth of "THOU ART THAT" or "I AM".