Sunday 16 January 1944, pp.36-39 This has previously been published, but in a longer form: see Transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Wartime Meetings, 1941-1946, pp.110-115 This transcript opens with the note: “Mr […]
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Month: November 2020
Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt V, 14 January)
Friday 14 January 1944, pp.33-36 Not previously published Someone, I would think Gurdjieff himself, or else Mme de Salzman, had authorised placing a note at the head of the transcript. […]
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The Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt IV, 13 January, an Exercise similar to the Soil Preparing)
Thursday 13 January 1944, pp.25-32 (concluded) Not previously published The next question is an important one from several perspectives, not least because Gurdjieff gave an exercise which is clearly similar […]
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The Paris Groups, 1944 (Part III, 13 January)
Thursday 13 January 1944, pp.25-32 Not previously published This meeting began after a reading of “The Arousing of Thought,” which is the first chapter of Beelzebub. Since the previous meeting […]
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The Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt II, 6 and 11 January)
(For context, see the post of 10 November 2020, “The Paris Groups (1944)” The French is rather terse and needs a certain amount of interpretation. But in the interests of transparency […]
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The Paris Groups (1944)
I have very recently received the edition of the surviving transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Paris meetings in 1944. It is titled G.I. Gurdjieff, Groupes de Paris, Tome II: 1944. It is […]
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Helen Adie: Finding the Place between the Job and my self (3 December 1983)
This is from the weekend work meeting with Mrs Adie on Saturday 3 December 1983. After dinner, Ivan said: “In the morning I had the thought that this is the […]
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An Ablutions Discipline
Part One “I remember very little about those first few weeks (at Sherborne, with J. G. Bennett) except that my feet were killing me. It was my own fault. I […]
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