Why has no one challenged the assumption that there are only three instinctual drives? While Gurdjieff’s original teachings only mention three, he may have missed a possibility, kept some of his knowledge secret, or like many other profound theorists before and after him (Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Tilhard de Chardin, Yantri) wrote, consciousness itself is evolving. While there is indisputably a biological imperative to self-preserve, to sexually reproduce and preserve the species...
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