Part One I am revisiting Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope with the audiobook. It is helping me pick up details I had missed before. Two of these, bearing the […]
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Part One I am revisiting Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope with the audiobook. It is helping me pick up details I had missed before. Two of these, bearing the […]
Read morePart One The next question was from M.W., whom Gurdjieff described as his “opposite” (mon vis-à-vis). M.W. said that when he was a child he was very fearful. Now, for […]
Read morePart One “I remember very little about those first few weeks (at Sherborne, with J. G. Bennett) except that my feet were killing me. It was my own fault. I […]
Read moreThe word “snug” – “comfortable, lying close and warm” (Skeat) – comes from Scandinavian words which meant “smooth” (as in smooth wool or hair), also “short-haired” and hence “smooth” or […]
Read moreNew words are marks left by the visit of a mind. A particular thought or feeling, some instinctive or physical reaction expresses itself, and impress itself upon us enough for […]
Read moreIt 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 […]
Read moreBefore 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, […]
Read moreI 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 […]
Read morePart 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 […]
Read morePart 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 This previously unpublished piece, reporting something […]
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