It might be interesting to look at some of what Orage said about Gurdjieff himself, as reported in these commentaries. Some of these remarks need a little context. The first […]
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Orage’s Commentary on Beelzebub (Pt 2)
Before commencing this post, I will note, for the benefit of those who are interested, that Oxford University Press has indicated that they are working towards having my book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, […]
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Orage’s Commentary on Beelzebub
I have now completed reading every word of Orage’s Commentary on Gurdjieff’s ‘Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson’. I am almost in awe of the man’s mind and his understanding. I am […]
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Stephen C. Meyer on Ben Shapiro’s Sunday Special
I was impressed by Ben Shapiro’s interview of Stephen C. Meyers on his Sunday Special. I have never read Meyers, although two of Stephen Meyer’s books (Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s […]
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Bennett on the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development (Part Six)
Part One I have so far written five posts on the volume, the first of which dealt mainly with A.G.E. Blake’s concise introduction, can be found here: http://www.josephazize.com/2017/12/23/bennett-on-the-relationship-between-sex-and-spiritual-development/ Before proceeding […]
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More on Gurdjieff and the Moon
Part One Further to the post of four days ago about Storr’s misunderstanding of Gurdjieff, and his mocking of Gurdjieff’s cosmology, consider this passage. This previously unpublished piece, reporting something […]
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Anthony Storr on Gurdjieff
I recently found a second-hand copy of Anthony Storr’s Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus. I always like to consider a different perspective. In this case, it is not just a […]
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Self – Human Life – Organic Life
There is a mystery about our selves, about other people, about human life on earth. The human world we live in possesses tremendous powers of both attraction and repulsions for […]
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Dying Daily, Pt III (Conclusion)
Orage continues: “… the review before death, as reported by survivors, is never censorious or didactic, nor is it a subject for either thought or feeling. Strangely enough, the review […]
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Dying Daily, Pt II (Orage’s Opening Thoughts)
Orage’s essay “On Dying Daily” is what, in my forthcoming study, I call a “discipline”. I think it is helpful to have employ terms than just “exercise”, so I speak […]
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