I am reminded of Gurdjieff’s division of a man into the thinking, feeling, and moving centres, which in the above scheme would be the cognitive, emotional, and intuitive functions.
I only have a small acquaintance with Gurdjieff’s system, but I believe his answer would be along the following lines. In an ordinary man (G and those who transmitted his words wrote at a time when “man”, so used, meant “person”), these three functions, these three selves, all act at odds with each other, and that he (ditto) has no real “I”, cannot truly “do” anything. Only when the three centres act harmoniously together can he obtain a real self, and become able to do.
In his teachings he gave various methods and exercises by which one might work to achieve that. But he also stressed that it is a very difficult thing, and that scarcely anyone has even the opportunity to undertake this work, still less the inclination.
I am reminded of Gurdjieff’s division of a man into the thinking, feeling, and moving centres, which in the above scheme would be the cognitive, emotional, and intuitive functions.
I only have a small acquaintance with Gurdjieff’s system, but I believe his answer would be along the following lines. In an ordinary man (G and those who transmitted his words wrote at a time when “man”, so used, meant “person”), these three functions, these three selves, all act at odds with each other, and that he (ditto) has no real “I”, cannot truly “do” anything. Only when the three centres act harmoniously together can he obtain a real self, and become able to do.
In his teachings he gave various methods and exercises by which one might work to achieve that. But he also stressed that it is a very difficult thing, and that scarcely anyone has even the opportunity to undertake this work, still less the inclination.