G.B. If I work four hours each day, I keep with me the impression of work, and I find I am not conducting myself as before, I am not as […]
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Henriette Lannes: “The Source of All Life,” a new translation
The Source of All Life We have been spoken to of God in many ways, about the immense creative force that has set before us this boundless world, impossible to […]
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Thursday 10 August 1944, Pt V (Final)
[In the printed book of English translations, the last questions, that is, those which follow the exchange with Dr Blano, come not from the French transcript but from the meeting […]
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Gurdjieff’s “Help for the Deceased”Exercise
My academic article on Gurdjieff’s most unusual exercise, that of “Help for the Deceased” is being published, this week, by the Alternative Spirituality and Religion and Review. I open with a […]
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Gurdjieff and Crowley
My article on Gurdjieff and Crowley has been published in Correspondences, “Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic: The Case of Gurdjieff and Crowley,” Correspondences, 8 (no. 2), 2020, 157-217. This edition of […]
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Thoughts on Studying Negative Emotions (Part One)
Introduction Why study negative emotions at all? Any answer better than “curiosity” must depend upon my aim. Without a good conscious aim, even the desire to become free of […]
Read moreTable of Contents and Index, Paris Groups 1944
The table of contents and index for this volume are so large, now that I am over one third of the way through, that I shall publish them in this […]
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Nicoll: What Gurdjieff Said about Decisions
I do not find all of Nicoll’s “psychological commentaries” equally valuable. They are rarely mediocre, but on some occasions, I have the impression that Nicoll, who wrote these as weekly […]
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My Review of “The Reality of Being”
On the morning of Thursday 4 March 2021, Sydney time, I received an email titled “Your Review of The Reality of Being.” The entirety of the body of the email […]
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Identifying with the Past
Part One I think that one of the major points one will come to in the work of spiritual development, is to realise that one is identifying with the past. […]
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