Concluding the meeting of Tuesday 8 October 1985, Andy said that he had been helped by the suggestion to only work for a third of the day, because “I usually […]
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Month: May 2020
The Past Is Real, but Dissolved in the Present (Tuesday 8 October 1985, Pt IV)
Continuing from the meeting of Tuesday 8 October 1985, Paulo said that Sunday work at Newport had been very difficult for him. “You had some work to do,” Mr Adie […]
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Icons: Divine Beauty, Richard Temple
This is a very good book. It is most valuable of course, for the photographic reproductions of icons, but the text is also singularly helpful. Published in 2004 by SAQI, […]
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The Unsettling State of Separation (Tuesday 8 October 1985, Pt III)
Part One This continues the report of the meeting of Tuesday 8 October 1985. Ann-Marie said that she had gone to the art gallery yesterday, then went shopping. She had […]
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“Discovering Gurdjieff,” Dorothy Phillpotts
This is a shortened copy of my earlier review of this excellent book. Discovering Gurdjieff, Dorothy Phillpotts, 2008, AuthorHouse, Central Milton Keynes, ISBN 9781434388711 (soft cover), 9781434388728 (soft cover) This […]
Read moreMovements with Mrs Adie (Part III)
“Sense Yourself. Feel Yourself.” But, for me. the most important element of Mrs Adie’s teaching of movements was her showing us how to work at the movements by mobilising ourselves […]
Read moreMovements with Mrs Adie (Part II)
Movements with Mrs Adie When the author began participating in Mrs Adie’s movements classes in Newport in 1982, the group had tripled, and she would have three separate classes of […]
Read moreMovements with Mrs Adie (Pt I)
Helen Adie (1909-1996) and her husband George Adie (1901-1989) had been pupils of Ouspensky for some years, and then of Gurdjieff in 1948 and 1949. Mrs Adie was already a […]
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