The second article in this edition happens to be my article: “The Readiness Is All: Gurdjieff’s Art of the Preparation”, the title being taken from Hamlet. It deals with Gurdjieff’s […]
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“On the earth, under the sun”
This is from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986. I was struck by how Katrina’s observations tallied with what I had been saying in my post “Why do we […]
Read moreGurdjieff Edition of Religion and the Arts
The journal Religion and the Arts is published by Boston College, a Jesuit research university in Massachusetts. The 2017 edition is a double number, described as a special issue “G.I. […]
Read moreForms of Experience as a Road Back
This is from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986, at Newport. The exercise for the month was something like to take one definite half hour period each day, chosen […]
Read more“Just go quietly, when you’re tired …”
This is some advice Mr Adie gave “Adam” on Thursday 19 March 1986, At the end of the exchange, he noticed that “Mike” was in a poor state, and even […]
Read moreMrs Adie on our Wily Side
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 23 November 1982. I started transcribing it a few weeks ago, then had to stop. In the interim, it seems, something which this […]
Read moreMr Adie Notices
This comes from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986. The exchange with the young man, who happened to be myself, was moderately interesting. But what was fascinating was the […]
Read moreMr Adie and a School Teacher
This is from a meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986. Amy was a school teacher. She said that on Tuesday she had had an intention and a plan. She was […]
Read moreOnly, I know I’m doing it (Mrs Adie, 1982)
This is from a meeting of Tuesday 23 November 1982. It was rather a long exhange, and I could not possibly reduplicate how “Jim” spoke over Mrs Adie. The exercise […]
Read moreNicoll on the Search for Chief Feature
How does one look for chief feature? I mean, what is the nature of the “searching-effort” one makes? There are several ways to answer. Something of the effort is described […]
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