Henri Tracol then asked a complex question about being interrupted before the end of the exercise, and feeling a need to go back to the start, and begin breathing again. […]
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The Exercises: Sunday 13 February, Paris Groups 1944, Pt XX)
The meeting of 13 February 1044 shows how critical the exercises were to Gurdjieff’s teaching in his final period, when he had worked out what would make a difference to […]
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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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True Faith, False Faith (Paris Groups, 1 & 4 February 1944, Pt XVI)
We now finish the transcript of the meeting of Tuesday 1 February. Y.L. reported progress: a deeper emotional life, ability to stop negative emotions, and more control over motor functions. Only his […]
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Gurdjieff Uses a Word for “Contemplation” (Paris Groups, 1 February 1944, Pt XV)
Tuesday 1 February 1944, pp.73-78 G.B. said that he was losing energy, especially through his emotions. He cannot follow Gurdjieff’s advice to be a good egoist, because of these emotions […]
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A New Career (Paris Groups 1944, Pt XIV, Friday 28 January)
There follows a rather strange entry: “Mr Gurdjieff jokes with the doctor and tells him the story of Beelzebub and the young officers of a Russian garrison, who bought champagne […]
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One Leaves, Another Enters (Paris Groups, 23 and 28 January 1944, Pt XIII)
I now conclude the report of the meeting of 23 January 1944. Mme. L. then confessed to being uncertain of how to raise her children, as they were all different. […]
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Working when Fatigued (Paris Groups, Pt XII, 23 January 1944, cont.)
R.P. then asked about a feeling of cold in his arms during part of the exercise. Gurdjieff asked whether he had ever had an issue with this previously. When R.P. […]
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For 13 January: Some Principles of the Exercises (Paris Groups 1944, Pt XI, 23 January)
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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