A New Model of the Universe

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Second Edition, Later Printing. Octavo in light brown boards,; dust jacket; deckle edge to textblock; 476 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Near Fine in Good(+) dust jacket; boards show slight bumping to corners; pages clean, binding firm; dust jacket show chipping to top and tail of spine, light rubbing to edges, jacket is protected in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Ouspensky’s landmark New Model proposes that the ordinary linear sense of time is a constriction rather than a truth. He treats ancient cosmologies not as curiosities but as technical vocabularies for expanded perception, arguing that esoteric traditions preserve practical methods for altering one’s relation to time, consciousness, and recurrence. The book’s most striking claim is that human experience becomes coherent only when seen through a multidimensional model of the universe in which evolution, memory, intuition, and spiritual discipline are all facets of the same hidden geometry.