Life is real only then when “i am”

The stated purpose of the book is to "open the door to the thinking and sentiment of the reader of a just, unrealistic representation of the real world, instead of the illusory world he perceives." And reading is really an impression of approaching something far different from the world we know: it is different in the knowledge and understanding that Gurdjieff had, offering to us readers the extraordinary possibility of perceiving the existence of another way To be.