This is the third question I am posting from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. The man, let us call him Tim, who asked this question, had been in […]
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Mr Adie on Swearing
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. When Mr Adie told the joke about the political rally in the north of England, people laughed uproariously. I have […]
Read moreMr Adie on “Human Mathematics”
This exchange comes from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. Just when I start thinking that I have heard most everything Mr Adie had to say, I find myself […]
Read moreAnd so you have something to go on with!
This is from the meeting of Thursday 12 June 1986. I present it in two parts. Although the second part followed directly from the first, what I found of value […]
Read moreFor the 29th of July
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 21 November 1979 at Newport. I have had a number of the old cassette tapes transferred to MP3 because they will no longer […]
Read moreFerapontoff and Fear of the Normans
The Ferapontoff book (Constantinople Notes on the Transition to Man Number 4) has now arrived, and I have to say, completely objectively, that Beech Hill has done an excellent job […]
Read moreDo not Consider the Difficulty, only the Effort
This comes from the group meeting of Thursday 25 November 1982. Together with one of the contemplative exercises, each person was asked to make three hourly appointments, for example at […]
Read moreThe Education of Personality (Part 5)
The last of this series on the education of personality will mention, appropriately enough, Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson (although I am more and more warming to the title The […]
Read moreBoris Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes
Boris Ferapontoff was one of Gurdjieff’s most important pupils. He is one of the few whom Gurdjieff mentions in any of his books. Gurdjieff terms Ferapontoff his (Gurdjieff’s) “personal translator,” […]
Read moreThe Education of Personality (Part 4)
Gurdjieff made some very particular contributions to the pursuit of educating personality, after the period when Ouspensky was his pupil. In this post, I will consider just one. It concerns […]
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