Readers should note that the book on Audible is titled “Psychological Lectures 1934-1940”. Searching for “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution” will yield only a reading by DJ Holte. At […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Work on Myself
Part One Gurdjieff brought a concept of “work on myself.” Not just learning something, not just going out and doing something as instructed. He insisted that before any new knowledge […]
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Bennett on Instinctive Centre
There is an excellent chapter on the instinctive centre in Dorothy Phillpotts’ Discovering Gurdjieff, which I have already warmly reviewed. http://www.josephazize.com/2020/05/13/discovering-gurdjieff-dorothy-phillpotts/ She begins by speaking about how she had seen the […]
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Instinctive Centre, Scents, and the Work of Dreams
Part One This week our group took remembering myself while receiving impressions of smell and scent. We are not primarily trying to become more discriminating of scent and smell – […]
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Architecture (George Adie, 15 July 1989)
The next question was from Probyn: “Mr Adie, this morning I’ve been very identified with an attitude of being uncertain of myself in respect to the job. I’ve worked on […]
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Instinctive Centre
The Work of Instinctive Centre We often take the moving and instinctive centres together, but at a certain point of one’s work, there is, I think, a real value in […]
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Disagreement (George Adie, 15 July 1989)
These were the first questions of the weekend work of Saturday 15 July 1989. Their chief value may be in showing how people could change enough to see something new […]
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Postscripts vol. 12 (2) – New Articles on Gurdjieff
I am pleased to announce the publication of volume 12, part 2, of the journal Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, from Dublin. This volume was […]
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The higher impressions are there (Mr Adie, 15 July 1989)
This is the morning address from the Saturday work of 15 July 1989. Part One We need to realize much more than we do the demand that’s placed on us […]
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Do Not Sully Your Impressions
The next question was from Jack, who said: “Mr Adie, I was speaking to someone and I was relatively present during the first part of the conversation and although it […]
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