This is from a group meeting of 1 April 1986. A young man reported that in the Movements class earlier that evening, the way he took a movement had been […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Purgatory
One of the teachings of the Catholic faith, which we Maronites share, and which has always seemed to me to be absolutely true is the doctrine of Purgatory. I have […]
Read moreAn Undated Gurdjieff Group Meeting
Although a number of transcripts of Gurdjieff’s group meetings during the 1940s have been gathered in one volume (Transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Meetings 1941-1946 2nd revised & enlarged edition), one important […]
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Repairing the Past
I began this blog with the intention of writing something quite specific about repairing the past. As I came to the middle of it, I found that the train of […]
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Mr Adie on not Being Able to See or Accept
This comes from the evening exchange on Sunday 23 March 1986, at Newport. The young man who spoke said that he hadn’t liked the job he was doing, which was […]
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Mr Adie: No Effort Is Worthless
This is from a weekend work of Sunday 23 February 1986 (it is not in his book) In the evening, a woman spoke about how she had been tired. […]
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Elizabeth Bennett: My Life, J.G.Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff
My Life, J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Bennett, J.G. Bennett Foundation, Petersham MA, 2016 This interesting book, really a collection of chapters, is welcome, not least […]
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Themes I, by Annie-Lou Staveley
Part One: Mrs Staveley Mrs Staveley was an extraordinary woman: there is no doubt about that. I was at her Two Rivers Farm between 1 and 18 January 1996, if […]
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Why I Won’t be Reading Harry Potter and the Pitiless Sequels
I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]
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What Should I Try to Understand?
This comes from a Tuesday night meeting at Newport on 23 November 1982. A woman whose voice I cannot identify asked Mrs Adie: “I felt very strong after the week-end […]
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