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 […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
A 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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Draining – Tzvarnoharno, Dr Nicoll and Willem Nyland
Part One First, this is from vol. 3 of Maurice Nicoll’s Psychological Commentaries: “Now in ordinary seen life, where people, even religious people, do not practically work on themselves each […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part VII)
volume 3 of the Psychological Commentaries G. once said: “You are all different kinds of machines—some are typewriters, some are sewing-machines, some are mincing-machines, and so on.” (780, 22 September […]
Read moreReflections on the 13th
This year, 2026, there were some special elements associated with our commemorative meal for the 13th. Together with the impact of the evening and all which led up to it, […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part VI)
44. “On one occasion Mr. G. said, in so many words, in speaking of the First Conscious Shock: “Man should remember himself and he was born to do so. If […]
Read moreFor the New Year – Mr Adie, Wednesday 12 October 1983
Denise: I feel that I found something in myself on Sunday when I brought my observation to you, with what you said to me about the experience of the posture. […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part V)
38. It is extraordinary how many variations there are in Nicoll’s recollection of this one short saying. “On one occasion G., speaking of Self-Remembering, said: “Which self do you wish […]
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Christmas Day, 2025
The Incarnation of Christ can be a powerful reminder of this critical question: is my head with my body? That is only the start of our questioning, but, my word, […]
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