Then L.V. asked for a “first exercise” to steady his thought, to stop it “running here and there.” Gurdjieff said that thought has many varied aspects, but that our thought […]
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Month: December 2020
A Booklet of Notes from Mme Ouspensky
Saturday Evenings at Mendham, Conversations with Madame Ouspensky Part One Produced in 2018 by C. Smith, this is a rather odd little booklet, approximately half of it is blank. There […]
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Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes, 2nd edition
I am pleased to say that a second edition of Boris Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes has been published. It is available from By the Way Book: https://www.bythewaybooks.com/pages/books/26530/boris-ferapontoff/constantinople-notes-on-the-transition-to-man-number-4 The few typographical errors have […]
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Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt IX, 20 January 1944 cont.) Aim and Posterity
Part One The next question was from M.W., whom Gurdjieff described as his “opposite” (mon vis-à-vis). M.W. said that when he was a child he was very fearful. Now, for […]
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I must teach myself to think (22 February 1989)
This was the final question of 22 February 1989. Garry: “This recess was the worst one that I could remember, in the sense I felt further away from the […]
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Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt VIII, 18 January – completed, plus “The Crow and the Crane”)
The next question was from Alain G, who asked whether he could his new clarity of mind for his work. Gurdjieff replied: “Work only at the exercises.” Alain felt that […]
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Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt VII, 18 January)
Tuesday 18 January 1944, pp.40-45 This has previously been published, see Transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Wartime Meetings, 1941-1946, pp.116-118 The English translation is not entirely accurate. At the beginning, Mme […]
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