What is behind the ideas in Layne Negrin’s Gurdjieff in Tibet? In an earlier post, I explained in broad outline the radical flaws in the book, and I shall say a […]
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Blake: Audio Recording “In Search of the Miraculous”
In listening to his audio recording of In Search of the Miraculous, I more than once recalled how in The Supreme Art of Dialogue, my friend A.G.E. Blake wrote: “‘Genius’ was originally […]
Read moreHelen Adie: “I asked Jane Heap.”
This is from the meeting of 11 November 1982. Hyacinth: Mrs Adie, on Tuesday night my mother rang me and told me my grandmother is in hospital. She asked me […]
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“God Beyond Time,” J(ohn) H(ereward) Reyner (Part Three)
This is the third post on this valuable book. Having noticed the significance of imagination and visualisation, Rayner then comes to attention, as taught by (Gurdjieff and) Ouspensky. The exercise […]
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“God Beyond Time,” J(ohn) H(ereward) Reyner (Part Two)
In part 1 of this review, I brought out some of the main points in this book; but let us now work through it more methodically. He sets his study […]
Read more“Gurdjieff in Tibet”: A Review
Gurdjieff in Tibet, Layne Negrin, Always and Everywhere Publishing, NY, 2025 (554 pages, no index or bibliography) I was pleased to purchase this book, despite the significant cost, as I […]
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“God Beyond Time,” J(ohn) H(ereward) Reyner (Part One)
Reyner is something of a mystery, all the more enigmatic for the fact that he wrote a number of books, some on technical questions of engineering, and others on the […]
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