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“There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines and so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew the magician wanted their skins and meat and this they did not like.
At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that , on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they weren’t sheep at all; to some of them he suggested they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
And after all this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.
This is a very good illustration of man’s position. This is the real meaning of Kundalini which is the power of imagination, the power of fantasy, which takes the place of a real function. When a man dreams instead of acting, when his dreams take the place of reality, when a man imagines himself to be an eagle, a lion, or magician, it is the force of Kundalini acting in him. Kundalini is a force put into men’s lives in order to keep them in their present state. If men could really see their true position and understand the horror of it, they would be unable to remain where they are even for one second. But men fail to see it because they are hypnotized by Kundalini. “---Gurdjieff

LeftySinister 5 Mar 19
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Link to an English translation of the tale or it’s name? I’d love to give that one a read.

I got it from In Search of the Miraculous. It was a story Gurdjieff told. Not sure where he got it.

@LeftySinister Thanks, I’ll look into it.

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Interesting story...

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