Part One The road to balance is a long hard one. There are moments when one’s state is so high that it seems as if one will always be lifted […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
John Fogerty, Fortunate Son
John Fogerty is one of the few geniuses of modern music. I am not alone in that opinion. I would place him in the company of Dylan, Elton John, Springsteen, […]
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Dylan, Nobel Prizes and a Vatican Newspaper
So Giuseppe Fiorentino of L’Osservatore Romano feels that some of Bob Dylan’s lyrics are beautiful with an intensity of which only “true artists” are capable: “di un’intensità di cui solo […]
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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week (A Review)
The Importance of Probing (The Beatles: Eight Days A Week) I saw the movie: the first I have seen in about two years. And it was worth it. In fact, […]
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Every Stick has Two Ends
Again, from the meeting of Tuesday 1 April 1986. Part One Jimmy said that he had seen his nothingness. He had been trying to work out where he should live, […]
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Playing a Role
Of all the concepts Gurdjieff brought, that of “playing a role” is one of the hardest to get a practical handle on: or so I have found. But this exchange […]
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More on the Sugar Plague …
The Sydney Morning Herald’s weekend edition of 17-18 September 2016, had an article titled: “Dramatic changes needed as childhood obesity normalised” (pp. 8-9). Sadly, one in five children in NSW […]
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Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York (forthcoming)
Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York: Talks and Lectures with A.R. Orage 1924-1931, Book Studio, (London?), 2017 (forthcoming) The cover depicts Gurdjieff and Orage in earnest conversation outside The Sunwise Turn […]
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After the Preparation
This comes from the group meeting of Tuesday 1 April 1986. Someone remarked that after the preparation he often felt quite lost, and then he couldn’t carry out the task […]
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Hasnamuss Individuals (Part One)
I think that two understandings grow together: understanding of how we should develop in accordance with the divine plan, and how we should not. Traditionally, Christians have always studied both […]
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