That’s a good observation. Of course I can fall asleep. I think most people find it hard in the afternoon. Nothing goes in a straight line, of course it’s the […]
Read moreAuthor: Joseph Azize
Mrs Adie on Struggle and Aim (Thursday 4 March 1982, final)
This is the last excerpt from the meeting of Thursday 4 March 1982. Margaret, sounding rather depressed, said: “Mrs Adie, I feel I have going in me an aim, although I […]
Read moreMy Aim Is not to not Swagger, but to Awaken (Mrs Adie, Thursday 4 March 1982)
The next question was from Alberic. He said that although he had a couple of shocks where he had seen himself identified with his health, thinking he was ill, there […]
Read more“Mrs Adie, I Have No Feeling” (4 March 1982, pt 2)
The next question was from Cal: “Mrs Adie, recently a statement particularly struck a chord with me, Gurdjieff said that some people wanted to take on the new without giving […]
Read more“Bad Conscience,” Helen Adie, Thursday 4 March 1982
This is the first question from a group meeting of 1982 with Mrs Adie. I have tried to retain her turn of phrase, even where it might not be entirely […]
Read moreWhy Should You Sleep? (Part Two of Walker, Why We Sleep)
for part one of this review, see http://www.josephazize.com/2021/05/03/review-walker-why-we-sleep/ Part Two: Why Should You Sleep? I have always felt, and Walker establishes that: “Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. It is […]
Read moreReview: Walker, “Why We Sleep” (Part 1)
Sleep Is an Esoteric Issue Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index) This is a […]
Read moreTable of Contents and Index, Paris Groups 1944
The table of contents and index for this volume are so large, now that I am over one third of the way through, that I shall publish them in this […]
Read moreNicoll: What Gurdjieff Said about Decisions
I do not find all of Nicoll’s “psychological commentaries” equally valuable. They are rarely mediocre, but on some occasions, I have the impression that Nicoll, who wrote these as weekly […]
Read moreMy Review of “The Reality of Being”
On the morning of Thursday 4 March 2021, Sydney time, I received an email titled “Your Review of The Reality of Being.” The entirety of the body of the email […]
Read more