Gurdjieff and Castaneda were two of the characters I couldn’t read enough of as a youngster. They provided a banquet; so unlike the other writers of this ‘sort of stuff’, who would spin out one idea over a whole book, but cover it in so many convolutions and veils of mystery that you could barely eke a morsel from it. Page upon page of this kind of thing: ‘ Those well versed in this topic will be all too familiar with the great mystery i allude to, and i need say no more, save to warn the unwary traveller etc…….’
Yes, I think you are spot on with the maze allusion. The labyrinth with the beast at it’s centre is a powerful symbol.
The clearing in the forest surrounded by the perilous woodland. To enter the maze and return is to be transformed. A different person comes back.
