Orage’s essay “On Dying Daily” is what, in my forthcoming study, I call a “discipline”. I think it is helpful to have employ terms than just “exercise”, so I speak […]
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Orage’s essay “On Dying Daily” is what, in my forthcoming study, I call a “discipline”. I think it is helpful to have employ terms than just “exercise”, so I speak […]
Read moreAlfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) was a very important figure in the development of the Gurdjieff teaching. I mean that quite literally. He did not merely help Gurdjieff by teaching the […]
Read moreNot so very long ago, a few of us read this passage from Tchekhovitch; that led to one thing, and that led to something else. First, Tchekhovitch: “If a new […]
Read more“My immediate difficulty seems to be in the preparation in the morning,” said Gill. “What it comes back to is not starting the day in the right way. There’s not […]
Read moreThis 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 […]
Read moreI 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, […]
Read moreThese are the first two questions from Tuesday 7 October 1986. Amy said that she wants to have a more positive relationship with her immediate family, and is having trouble making […]
Read morePart One This is the second extract from the material of Jane Heap published in Margaret Anderson’s The Unknowable Gurdjieff. The chapter “Everything” begins on p.157. Anderson opens by saying that […]
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