Part One As we saw in Pt IV of this meeting, Mr Adie gave sustained and careful attention to a question from Jill. When, after quite some exchange, he saw […]
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13 January 1989: George Adie on the Preparation and on Purgatory
This is prepared, well in advance, for 13 January, celebrated as Gurdjieff’s birthday. The very fact that he wanted it celebrated on the first day of the Old Calendar is […]
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Irreducibly Individual
I wonder if we do not all have this as part of our history: a feeling that we are inadequate? That we would have been better as someone else? That, […]
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George Adie’s Last Answer in a Group (20 July 1989, Part IV)
The last question this evening of his last group was from Alec, who said: “I am stumbling over my preparation. I sometimes use a diary, to try and induce a […]
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“John Who Saw”
There is a little-known, but very interesting book called John Who Saw by the English lawyer Adrian Howell North Green-Armytage (who must be deceased by now). It is admittedly a layman’s […]
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Remembering George Adie in the Present
Mr Adie died on 29 July 1989. I have prepared what I think of as some special material for the 29th itself. It seems to me that this year, at […]
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Understanding and Agreement
There is one aspect of Gurdjieff’s intellectual system which I have never at all understood, and that, ironically, is what he says about understanding and agreement. It is, I now […]
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A Draft Index to “G.I. Gurdjieff, Paris Meetings, 1943”
This is only the first draft. I would be grateful for suggestions. I think you may need to download the PDF from the link. Just in case, I copy and […]
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Nina Simone: “God, God, God”
Nina Simone (1933-2003) was not an ordinary person. She was not. I wish I had time to do justice to her achievement, but she was talented to an extraordinary degree. […]
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Which Religious Orders Are Growing?
A friend has drawn my attention to this remarkable article: “The Data on the Death of Religious Orders”, by two academics, Jack P. Oostveen and David L. Sonnier, at https://onepeterfive.com/data-death-religious-orders/ That […]
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