In Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Gurdjieff presented three exercises, the Soil Preparing and the First and Second Assisting Exercises. I have dealt with these in the book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, […]
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Bennett’s Talk on Christ, and Sacred Architecture
In The Masters of Wisdom, Bennett has a chapter on Christ. At the end of this short note, there is a link to George Bennett, his son, reading it. As you will […]
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Payment
Principles of Payment in the Spiritual Life There are several aspects to the question of payment in the spiritual life, but I think they can all be reduced to two, […]
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“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer”
Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies […]
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Schumacher, Bennett, and Nicoll
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911-1977) was, at one time, an international figure for his visionary and ecologically aware approach to economics. His 1973 volume Small Is Beautiful was a global publishing […]
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Repairing the Past: Exploring the Practical Approach
Repairing the Past: Exploring the Practical Approach I have written about repairing the past before. Since we are our past, and it can only be repaired in the present, it is […]
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The Developments in Gurdjieff’s Teaching
Part One Several people have said to me, over the years, that it is either pointless or wrong to discuss Gurdjieff: he is simply beyond us. First, I think that […]
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Elwell-Sutton on Pseudo-Sufism
In the December 1972 edition of Encounter, Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton, a Professor of Persian and Middle Eastern studies published an article “Sufism & Pseudo-Sufism.” I had seen references to his […]
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Work on Myself
Part One Gurdjieff brought a concept of “work on myself.” Not just learning something, not just going out and doing something as instructed. He insisted that before any new knowledge […]
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Bennett on Instinctive Centre
There is an excellent chapter on the instinctive centre in Dorothy Phillpotts’ Discovering Gurdjieff, which I have already warmly reviewed. http://www.josephazize.com/2020/05/13/discovering-gurdjieff-dorothy-phillpotts/ She begins by speaking about how she had seen the […]
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