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  Why Do People Follow the Crowd?
  People often imagine themselves as independent thinkers who make decisions from evidence and personal conviction. Yet clothing styles, political opinions, workplace habits, consumer choices, and judgments about obvious facts are influenced by what other people appear to believe. Psychology calls this tendency conformity: a change in judgment or behavior that brings someone closer to a… Read more: Why Do People Follow the Crowd?
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  Why Do People Get Jealous?
  Jealousy is often dismissed as simple insecurity, but psychologically it is more complex. It usually appears when a valued relationship, source of attention, or social position seems threatened by a rival. The feeling may combine fear of loss, anger, sadness, humiliation, suspicion, and self-doubt. Psychologists W. Gerrod Parrott and Richard H. Smith showed that jealousy… Read more: Why Do People Get Jealous?
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  Why Do People Feel Lonely?
  Loneliness is often mistaken for the simple condition of being alone, but the two experiences are not identical. A person can spend an entire day in solitude and feel peaceful, restored, or creatively engaged. Another person can sit among coworkers, relatives, or thousands of online contacts and feel profoundly unseen. Loneliness emerges when people perceive… Read more: Why Do People Feel Lonely?
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  A Further Record Book Summary: Self-Remembering, Recurrence, and Inner Work
  P. D. Ouspensky’s A Further Record: Extracts from Meetings 1928–1945 is a collection of conversations rather than a continuous philosophical treatise. Published in 1952 from records of Ouspensky’s meetings, it preserves questions posed by students and the answers he offered across nearly two decades. Its subjects include recurrence, self-remembering, negative emotions, knowledge and being, will,… Read more: A Further Record Book Summary: Self-Remembering, Recurrence, and Inner Work
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  Conscience: The Search for Truth Book Summary
  P. D. Ouspensky’s Conscience: The Search for Truth is not a continuous manuscript prepared as a single book. Published in 1979 with an introduction by Merrily E. Taylor, it gathers five shorter works—“Memory,” “Surface Personality,” “Self-Will,” “Negative Emotions,” and “Notes on Work”—originally issued in limited Stourton Press editions between 1952 and 1955. Much of the… Read more: Conscience: The Search for Truth Book Summary
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  Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Book Summary: Eternal Recurrence, Habit, and the Difficulty of Change
  P. D. Ouspensky’s Strange Life of Ivan Osokin explores the fantasy of returning to the past with present knowledge and repairing a damaged life. Ouspensky wrote it in 1905, published it in Russian as Kinemadrama in 1915, and issued the English version in 1947. Its “cinema-drama” form explains the rapid, visually framed scenes. It turns… Read more: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Book Summary: Eternal Recurrence, Habit, and the Difficulty of Change
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  Letters from Russia Book Summary: Revolution, Scarcity, and the Collapse of Ordinary Life
  P. D. Ouspensky’s Letters from Russia is unlike his better-known works on higher dimensions, consciousness, and the Fourth Way. It is a brief collection of political journalism written from Ekaterinodar in southern Russia during the Russian Civil War. Ouspensky sent five articles to A. R. Orage, editor of the London weekly The New Age, where… Read more: Letters from Russia Book Summary: Revolution, Scarcity, and the Collapse of Ordinary Life
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  Talks with a Devil Book Summary: Technology, Temptation, and the Psychology of Self-Deception
  P. D. Ouspensky’s Talks with a Devil consists of two philosophical stories, “The Inventor” and “The Benevolent Devil.” First published in Russian in 1916, the collection appeared in English decades later in a translation by Katya Petroff edited by J. G. Bennett. Ouspensky later regarded the stories as immature and declined to translate them himself,… Read more: Talks with a Devil Book Summary: Technology, Temptation, and the Psychology of Self-Deception
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  A New Model of the Universe Book Summary: Science, Religion, Art, and the Psychology of Perception
  P. D. Ouspensky’s A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art is his broadest attempt to assemble a unified philosophy of reality. Published in English in 1931 and translated with R. R. Merton, the book gathers twelve extended essays, several of which… Read more: A New Model of the Universe Book Summary: Science, Religion, Art, and the Psychology of Perception
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  The Symbolism of the Tarot Book Summary: Ouspensky’s Philosophy of Symbols and Inner Transformation
  P. D. Ouspensky’s The Symbolism of the Tarot, first published in 1913, is not a conventional guide to card reading. It is a compact work of symbolic philosophy in which the twenty-two Major Arcana become images of consciousness, nature, spiritual knowledge, and human transformation. Ouspensky approaches the deck as a visual language whose meaning cannot… Read more: The Symbolism of the Tarot Book Summary: Ouspensky’s Philosophy of Symbols and Inner Transformation