ROGUE ELEPHANT Transforming Negative Emotions
Beryl Pogson
February 2007: Now available in paperback - euro 20.00
Compiled by Bob Hunter
First Edition (July 2003)
Third printing of 40 handbound copies,
individually numbered, wrapper - a few copies still available
Euro 40.00
Beryl Pogson and members
of her Work group often used
the image of a rogue elephant to symbolise the usually
irresistible impulse that takes over the natural role
of our
emotions and plays havoc with our thinking.
However, Mrs Pogson
(1885-1967) exchanged metaphor
for plain talking when explaining how unpleasant
feelings
govern the lives of us all. Any who imagine themselves
immune from the disruptive influence of negative
emotions
may well see new potentials in life when they read this
selection of her talks on the
psychological teaching introduced by George
I.Gurdjieff,
Peter D.Ouspensky and
Maurice Nicoll.
Her down-to-earth
approach to esoteric techniques - readily
applicable to everyday
life - gives a fresh vitality to the practice of
self-development.
In this book she not
only diagnoses humanity's chaotic emotional condition
but shows clearly how to
reconcile the contradictions between what we are and
what we could and, readers
may come to agree, should be. The focus is on a raising
of consciousness, initially
by stopping the leakage of energy through negativity.
An example of Beryl
Pogson's charming style is that her
analogies to the regenerated
inner life range from Gospel parables to the
representation
of the soul in the play
Peer Gynt and the more conscious way of taking events
depicted by the fairytale
Tom Thumb.
This page updated August 7, 2007
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