The first three articles of this series were published as “In Practical Terms, What Is Self-Remembering?”, beginning with this one: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ For better or for worse, I have decided to rename […]
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Part I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ Gurdjieff said that the key to everything was to remain separate. I think this is what is behind Toomer’s experience that: [My life] was […]
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Part I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ As what Toomer called “the Experience” unfolds, he provides more details of what actually happened within him: I became as a child, captivated by […]
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What is it like to be able to remember myself, in practical terms? Surely there can be no one comprehensive answer, as each “self” is unique (at least theoretically). But […]
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Karnak Press has kindly sent me three new books: Robin Bloor and Paula-Schmidt (eds), Sayings from the Gurdjieff Work, (iv + 193 + 3 pages of promotional material; hardcover) Nella […]
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I think that the further one advances along the Gurdjieff work, the more one feels the desirability of uniting Beelzebub’s tribesmen, so to speak. There are many questions, for example, […]
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Available now on Audiobook, is a recording of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Herald of Coming Good by my esteemed friend and colleague, A.G.E. Blake. At the bottom of this page I provide a […]
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This follows a line begun in this post, albeit in a tangent: https://www.josephazize.com/2023/06/14/was-gurdjieff-spied-on/ In 1931, Ethel Merston began a stormy relationship with a 13-year-old girl known to us only as “Claire.” […]
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The Moral: Idries Shah’s writing on St Francis of Assisi brought me to a fairly important understanding: his technique, I contend, was to write such utter balderdash that anyone who […]
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The moral: To my mind, one of the most powerful signs of Gurdjieff’s deep compassion was how he knowingly accepted as his “pupil” a woman who was spying on him, and […]
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