The Pocket Oxford Dictionary tells us that to relax is to “cause or allow to become loose or slack or limp … grow less tense or rigid or stern or ceremonious or […]
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Month: February 2026
“One I Meditates; That’s Not Good” 14 June 1983
At a group meeting on Tuesday 14 June 1983, there was what I count as a most remarkable comment by Mr Adie in response to what seemed to me to […]
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Francois Grunwald, “A Path out of Exile: With Gurdjieff in Post-War Paris”
Francois Grunwald, A Path out of Exile: With Gurdjieff in Post-War Paris, Red Elixir, 2025 This is a significant book for anyone interested in Gurdjieff, his system, and Western Esotericism. Such […]
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Maurice Nicoll, “Living Time”
I wish to suggest that the chief idea of Maurice Nicoll’s Living Time (first published in 1952, but completed earlier) may be not time, but rather that by a certain change in […]
Read moreA New Volume of Gurdjieff Studies
Volume 35, number 2, of Literature & Aesthetics, has been published. Although it has only now appeared (February 2026) it is dated 2025. It is the Journal of the Sydney Society of […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part VIII)
Nicoll does not directly attribute this to Gurdjieff, but I am fairly sure it is from either Gurdjieff or Ouspensky: “… the Work says that understanding is the strongest force […]
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