Here are some extracts from Sunday work with Mr Adie, 5 March 1989. Earlier that morning, we had read from the chapter “America.” This is the morning address, and is […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Henriette Lannes: “The Source of All Life,” a new translation
The Source of All Life We have been spoken to of God in many ways, about the immense creative force that has set before us this boundless world, impossible to […]
Read moreBennett’s Dramatic Universe: What Are Sensation and Feeling?
At the basis of the practical methods brought by Gurdjieff, are the work with sensation and feeling. In the masterful talk “Now I am sitting here …” he gives perfectly […]
Read moreVolume 2 of the Dramatic Universe
I have now completed my first reading of volume 2 of the Dramatic Universe. As with volume 1, I am quite certain I have only engaged with it superficially, and […]
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Review: The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
From Crna Cora to Taliesin, Black Mountain to Shining Brow, The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, compiled and edited by Maxine Fawcett-Yeske and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ORO Editions, 2017 (no […]
Read moreThe Dramatic Universe volume 1
I have now completed my first reading the first volume of The Dramatic Universe. I do not even vaguely pretend to have understood it. There were some pages of which […]
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Mrs Adie on why we Work, and how we Can (26 September 1979)
At the meeting of 26 September 1979, Mrs Adie asked people what had brought them to the work. Most of these had joined only two years ago. In the event, […]
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Gurdjieff’s “Help for the Deceased”Exercise
Note: Someone recently reported to me trying the below exercise, and that the results had been “damaging” as the person had chosen someone about whom they felt remorse for their own […]
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Gurdjieff and Crowley
My article on Gurdjieff and Crowley has been published in Correspondences, “Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic: The Case of Gurdjieff and Crowley,” Correspondences, 8 (no. 2), 2020, 157-217. This edition of […]
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Thoughts on Studying Negative Emotions (Part One)
Introduction Why study negative emotions at all? Any answer better than “curiosity” must depend upon my aim. Without a good conscious aim, even the desire to become free of […]
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