Esmay: I found my line of work was not very easy to follow because I was trying to work on false pride, and there was not many manifestations. It was […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
“It Isn’t a Failure”: Thursday 10 November 1983 (Part 2)
Annabelle: On Sunday I made a plan to try and be free and relax as I spoke. And as I was speaking, something in me became aware that my shoulders […]
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“The Secret”: Thursday 10 November 1983 (Part 1)
Part One Ezekiel: I found something in me, Mr Adie, which is very egotistical and full of considering, always telling people either that I’m dying and that’s not too slowly […]
Read moreArnold Keyserling and Gurdjieff
Neither Hermann von Keyserling nor his son Arnold are particularly famous in the English-speaking world. But there is an interest in these notes, taken from a translation of selections from […]
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For 29 July 2025: “If they can enter my mind …”
Serena had asked a rather involved question. After Mr Adie had answered it, she said: “There was something else, too. Whenever I think of the death of someone I felt close […]
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Review: Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan
Nile Green, Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah, W.W. Norton, New York, 2024, 369 pp. This is a good book: the content is interesting and […]
Read more“What Happened In Between: A Doctor’s Story,” William J. Welch
Dr Welch was Gurdjieff’s final physician. This autobiography was published in 1972, some years before he died. Its 208 pages are chiefly devoted to his life and especially his medical […]
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Idries Shah- Genuine Fraud
I have only just become aware that last year a most interesting book was published; Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green. I have […]
Read moreThe Promptings of Feeling (Mr Adie, 14 December 1985)
Daniel: We were speaking, Nobby, you and me, this morning about the running of a cable, the discussion covered some ground. At one stage, we were talking about doing some […]
Read more“I only learn through my own failures” Mr Adie, 14 December 1985
This was a Saturday. Mr Adie opened with the sort of theme which was tremendously powerful: everyone who spoke mentioned how it had made a huge effect upon on them. […]
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