Two recollections of things said by Mr Adie have recently returned to me. The first is simply that in the year before he died, he said that when working at […]
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Month: January 2020
The Voices of Dreams (Thursday 19 July 1979, Pt III)
This continues the meeting of Thursday 19 July 1979, with the Cedar group. This next question was from Tim, who said he had been working on accepting how other people […]
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Introducing Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson (1872-1914), was a Catholic Priest. He was the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury renowned for his anti-Catholic rhetoric, and was ordained an Anglican priest by his […]
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“No Attachments at all” (Thursday 19 July 1979, Pt II)
This was a very interesting exchange between Mr Adie and a young woman whose voice I don’t recognise. I am guessing that she left the group, certainly in this transcript […]
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George Adie “There Should be more Work,” (11 July 1989, Final)
These are two questions Mr Adie took from the one lady on Tuesday 11 July 1989, not very long before he died. She asked the first, then other pupils asked […]
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“A Quietness of Thought,” (Thursday 19 July 1979, Pt I)
The first question was from Max, who said that he had been trying to come free of criticisms, pondering the matter in his morning preparation. In the had, initially, felt […]
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Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (8th and final part)
Part Six: The Church and the Scrolls “Did St Paul write anything about the Church?”, Bergsma asks in chapter 14. It begins with some notes about the assumptions modern biblical […]
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Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises
I have just read the published volume, and I think it might be worthwhile to note some thoughts which have occurred to me. I shall update this page from time […]
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Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt VII)
When the Lord presided at the Last Supper, He was discharging another priestly function, that of offering sacrifice (179). In Bergsma’s consciously literal alternative translation, the Lord says in Luke […]
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