This is from the meeting of Wednesday 1 March 1989. The first question was from Dmitry, referring to the Soil Preparing Exercise from Life Is Real: “I’ve been trying the […]
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Mind Matters Interview: July 2020
This is the link to the new interview on Mind Matters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve7j-rGd0SU I am grateful to Harrison, Cory, Elan, and Adam for the chance to speak with them on their programme. […]
Read moreA Brief Thought about the Gurdjieff Movements
This is a short, profound piece on the Movements by my late friend Michael Smyth; one of Beelzebub’s tribe. It is reprinted with permission of Barbara Walker Smyth, his widow, […]
Read moreThe “New Work,” Pt III, The Revision of “All and Everything”
Part One: The Open Letter from the Two Rivers Farm concerning the revised Beelzebub Simple question: if we can change one part of Gurdjieff’s legacy, and still call it Gurdjieff, why can we […]
Read moreDirecting Thought, cont., (22 February 1989, Pt III)
This concludes the lengthy exchange. was not to be satisfied: “Well, we have the three centres, the body, the mind, and the emotional centre, but effectively, during the day the […]
Read moreWim Van Dullemen on the Movements
Wim Van Dullemen, Gurdjieff’s Movements: The Pattern of All and Everything, replublished and available in a limited edition at https://www.bythewaybooks.com/pages/books/20986/wim-van-dullemen/the-gurdjieff-movements-a-communication-of-ancient-wisdom When I say that this book is essential for anyone […]
Read moreThe “New Work,” James Moore, Pt II
Part Two It is significant that Moore distinguishes his critique of the new teaching from any criticism of those bearing it: “These startling propositions advanced with formidable intellectual refinement by French […]
Read moreThe “New Work,” James Moore, Pt I
Someone recently sent a jab in my direction, aiming not so much at what I said about “the New Work” in my book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises, as about what I […]
Read moreAn Art Depicting “Knowledge of the Gift of Life” (22 February 1989, Pt III)
This continues the third question asked of Mr Adie on the evening of Wednesday 22 February 1989. The question was so long that I had to break it into two […]
Read moreThe Possibility of Directing Thought (22 February 1989, Pt II)
This very lengthy exchange from the meeting of 22 February 1989 has to be broken into two parts. Edward said: “Mr Adie, I was reading some books that were related […]
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