DEATH AT A DISTANCE

In the 3rd Series of his writings(which is not the entire or perhaps actual work proposed) :LIFE IS REAL ONLY THEN,WHEN "I AM", GURDJIEFF seems to make what most Westerners and scholars of his work would consider, at the very least, 'A BOASTFUL CLAIM'. On page 30 of my edition by the above title, he says,"ForInstance the development of THE POWER OF THOUGHTS had been brought to such a level that by only a few hours of SELF-PREPARATION I could from a distance ot ten miles kill a yak,or,in 24 hours, could ACCUMULATE LIFE FORCES of such compactness that I could in 5 minutes put to sleep an elephant." For me, this further indicates that Gurdjieff may have been in Tibet,since the power to cause death over distance and The CONCENTRATION of THOUGHT through special methods is considered by most Tibetans to be an actual fact, at least in those days it was.