Shichanina, Yu. V. Spiritual and Moral Search as a Life Journey: Peter D. Ouspensky. Searches for New Dimensions and the Secret Knowledge. Essay No. 1.

Abstract: Philosophical views of one of the most mysterious and controversial philosophers who were in absorbed into the spiritual and moral search, Peter D. Ouspensky are described as the philosopher’s life journey which, unlike usual chronicles of life, is filled with philosophical reflection, has the internal psychological truth and shows the philosopher’s ideas in terms of the philosopher’s personal biography. From the philosophical point of view, spiritual and moral search involves, first of all, a search or a process, a living force that, unlike in classical philosophical systems and scientific researches, has the structure and content expressing the results of a completed research. Peter D. Ouspensky’s philosophy is viewed not as the system of categories but as the spiritual and moral search of the philosopher as a human. In this regard, his philosophy has much potential for creative co-partnership and a new undesrstanding of universal philosophical ideas and timeless values in terms of the modern age. The analysis carried out by the author was focused on the most fundamental creative ideas of Peter D. Ouspensky: secret knowledge, esoteric Christianity, experimental mysticism, the fourth dimension, multi-dimensional universe, superman, eternal returns and ‘psychological’ evolution of the humanity. All these ideas are closely connected and complete each other. The first essay is focused on the so-called ‘theosophical’ period of Peter D. Ouspensky’s work (1907 – 1915), his travels to the East (India, Burma, Egypt and etc.), searches for a new way, esoteric school and a method of discovery and description of other dimensions of reality.

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