Part One I have so far written five posts on the volume, the first of which dealt mainly with A.G.E. Blake’s concise introduction, can be found here: http://www.josephazize.com/2017/12/23/bennett-on-the-relationship-between-sex-and-spiritual-development/ Before proceeding […]
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This was the first question from the evening of Thursday 29 August 1985. I have set it out in full with no editing whatsoever. It is not so much what […]
Read moreOne of the odd things about the Shambhala edition of this book is that, so far as I could find, it does not mention that it was first published in […]
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Part One Further to the post of four days ago about Storr’s misunderstanding of Gurdjieff, and his mocking of Gurdjieff’s cosmology, consider this passage. This previously unpublished piece, reporting something […]
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I recently found a second-hand copy of Anthony Storr’s Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus. I always like to consider a different perspective. In this case, it is not just a […]
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The next question was from Gary, who said that his immediate difficulty seemed to be in the morning preparation, and starting the day in the right way. He seems to […]
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There is a mystery about our selves, about other people, about human life on earth. The human world we live in possesses tremendous powers of both attraction and repulsions for […]
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The next question was from Baker. He said: “I have tried to bring the idea of life as a gift into my appointments and preparation, but I can’t come to […]
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Part One This continues the previous post of this meeting. After a silence, Mr Adie asked: “Who has got some work to talk about? Let us not sit silent and […]
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At every Maronite Mass I have celebrated, I add the names of St John and (Blessed) John Henry Newman, after that of St Maroun in the remembrance of the saints. […]
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