Now available on Amazon, as a paperback, is Mrs Adie’s book, “Helen Adie: That Higher Part Gives Me Strength.”The book launch shall be at 7:00pm 24 July 2026, at the Theosophical Society, first floor, 599 Pacific Highway (enter from Albany Street). For catering purposes please RSVP info@gurdjieffnewport.au
This is the annotated Table of Contents:
Foreword; Kenneth Scott Adie (Mrs Adie’s youngest child)
Introduction; Professor Carole M. Cusack (from the University of Sydney, Dept of Studies in Religion)
An Appreciation: Professor Connie Jones (from California)
Eulogy, 19 October 1996; Kenneth Scott Adie (read at Mrs Adie’s funeral)
Editor’s Introduction
Then follows the great bulk of the volume, exchanges with Mrs Adie, and in a few instances, with Mr Adie. Just as she was featured in his book, so it is right he be featured in her. They are organised thematically, under the following headings.
- Beginning
- Aim
- The Purpose and Value of the Morning Preparation
- Planning
- Relaxing
- Collecting Attention
- Self-Remembering
- Moving Centre
- Feeling
- The Head (Intellect)
- Identification
- Considering
- The Work in Daily Life
- In the Family
- In the Workplace
- Negative Emotion
- Dreaming
- Habits
- Exercises and Tasks
- Making Appointments
- The Movements
- Energies: Use and Transformation
- Separating
- Confronting
- Using the Resistance
- “But I Cannot Make Efforts!”
- Conscious Labour and Intentional Suffering
- Reading Beelzebub’s Tales
- Working during the Recess
- After many a Year (this and the following chapter have more advanced material)
- Whole of Life Questions
Photographs
Documents illustrating the career of Helen Perkin
QR codes connecting to piano performances
Appendix: Five Minute Tasks
Index
While I don’t purchase Kindles because I don’t personally experience the fullness of comprehension I do with a physical book, I’m very glad to read of the release of the “other” side of the Adies’ presentation of Gurdjieff’s Work. Thank you for alerting us.
It is available as a paperback. “Amazon Kindle” is the name of a company. It is not an indication that the title is available only as an e-book. I ahve amended the post to express this.
That’s wonderful, Joseph. Thank you for the clarification.
Where can we buy this book in the UK please
It is on amazon.co.uk I just checked, and I am pleased to see it up and ready to go
Hoping it will be available as a kindle e-book.
Either way, I will relish the opportunity to get a glimpse into Mrs Adie’s exchanges.
Thanks. I am exploring that possibility.