Maurice Nicoll’s unpublished diaries have a most interesting entry. Short as it is, I think it deserves a post all to itself. Ouspensky said to him once: “… that self-pride […]

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So far as I can see, there is no parallel in life for what happens in the authentic Gurdjieff contemplative exercises—what he called once “Transformed-Contemplation” and, in All and Everything, […]

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This post is mainly of historical value. It is not directly related to the inner work. I am sorting through my papers, and I located a portfolio which Mr Adie […]

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This is, I think, a significant exchange, short but powerful. By way of background, Ben – the name I use to hide the identity of the speaker – pulled me […]

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Frank Brueck has published a German translation of Orage’s commentaries on Beelzebub. See https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0HMXDCVY6/ref=sr_1_2 I will come back and write some more, but at the moment, am flat out. However, […]

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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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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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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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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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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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