Review Roberta Chromey, Real People: At The Pinnacle with Irmis Popoff and at the Second Basic Course at Sherborne House with J.G. Bennett, a Memoire, Red Elixir, NY (2022) 336 […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
George Adie: Directing Attention (7 June 1989, I)
These are the first two exchanges from the meeting of 7 June 1989. The first question was from Boris: “You gave me work of trying to get to the experience […]
Read moreAllen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 3
As we draw to the end of the course, a poignant note emerges, e.g. in the report of how Bennett hoped that the morning exercise would produce a reservoir of […]
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George Adie on Higher Nature
For 29 July 2022. Higher Nature, Lower Nature, and the In-Between I invariably find that, when I work, I am brought to a sense of immediacy – to a sense […]
Read moreAllen Roth in Sherborne, Part 2
In chapter 8, Roth comes to the theme meetings, where Bennett had “a general rule only to report actual observations” (49). There is one thing I disagree with: Roth quotes […]
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Allen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 1
There is a rather valuable and well-written book, Sherborne: An Experiment in Transformation, by Allen Roth. Only 118 pages with an index, it is, nonetheless a contribution to the Gurdjieff […]
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Pythagoras and his “Akousmata”
Part One I deal here with the interpretation of the akousmata (lit. “things heard”) also known as the symbols (“counterparts”) of Pythagoras (possibly around 570-480): cryptic sayings attributed to him […]
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“Christ the Yogi”?
Recently, a friend sent me an astonishingly powerful study for an icon of Ss John and Prochoros. Pondering it, I recalled that a few years ago, a friend had given […]
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Audiobook: “Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I AM’,”
A.G.E. Blake’s reading of the Third Series is now available at Audiobooks: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Life-Is-Real-Only-Then-When-I-Am-Audiobook/B0B4RPXCQ8?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=74d71ce1-f90f-405f-b4c3-d38cdc1d6ae4&pf_rd_r=TMGFWDGN0Q4T9TDE3XRP Because I am a friend of his, and am much indebted to him in several ways, I am […]
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The Cosmic Wombat
In the book, Gurdjieff: Mysticism … I mentioned several times how vital it is to raise the sensation of the body to a state of consciousness. That is, although words […]
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