Luba Gurdjieff Everitt’s Luba Gurdjieff: A Memoir with Recipes (1993, reprinted 1997 SLG Books), is not the most distinguished addition to the Gurdjieff library, but it is sui generis. There […]
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Doubts (26 April 1983 cont.)
Stella: My question is along a similar line to Peter’s about the small movement. I was woken up out of physical sleep last night and I was extremely angry and […]
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Being Impartial to my Ideals (26 April 1983, cont.)
Part One Annikin: Mr Adie, on the way to the Work tonight, I had a real realisation of how I’ve been working in the wrong way. I’ve been attempting in […]
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If not Prudish, then what?
Maybe there is an innocent explanation, but if so, I cannot conceive it. Yet, I hope there IS an innocent explanation, Dolmen Meadows need only tell me, and I shall […]
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Wednesday 26 April 1983, Pt III (Expectations)
Hans said: I find that a small movement is sometimes not enough, apparently not enough in my case. Um, not that— Mr Adie: Just a moment. Uh, can we give […]
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Art, and the Health of our Three Centres or Brains
Notes for 15 September 2026 The 30th chapter of All and Everything, “Art,” is about how Art has become one of the factors which are “gradually, and … almost imperceptibly […]
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An Apparently Unpublished, and Incomplete, Paper by Dr Nicoll
This interesting paper, elegant in its forceful simplicity of thought, was left unfinished mid-sentence. It is among the papers at Edinburgh University. So far as I am aware, it has […]
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In Memoriam: Maurice Nicoll
Today is 30 August 2026. Nicoll died on 30 August 1953. I attach here some notes from Living Time. My interest in these is how they prefigure Gurdjieff’s “Expanded Present […]
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Audio Recording of the Gurdjieff Transcripts
Audible has released an audio-recording of the Book Studio edition of the Gurdjieff transcripts. https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Transcripts-of-Gurdjieffs-Meetings-1941-1946-Audiobook/B0HF12XP39?qid=1787999941&intent=discovery&sr=1-4&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=771c6463-05d7-4981-9b47-920dc34a70f1&pf_rd_r=6JEA5HWWWQZ92D5HR1QQ&plink=2WVN2H7aJQxvJgF8&pageLoadId=iqoVdVgCRYwdEZOh&creativeId=adcc4fec-4d90-49d1-997e-8be21d68ce7f&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_4 It is professionally read by Brendan Somers who even reproduces the type of breathings a […]
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Testing the Brain during Gurdjieff’s Contemplative Exercises
I recently sat for 90 minutes of brain testing. During that period, I spent 15 minutes relaxing, 15 minutes in the Collected State Exercise, then 15 in the Doubling/Separation Exercise, […]
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