The next article to comment on is by Sydney’s own Dr Johanna Petsche. Johanna begins by placing the contemporary recordings of Gurdjieff’s music, and noting how the Gurdjieff groups are […]
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The Education of Personality (Part 1)
This is from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986. Mr Adie sometimes spoke of “educating personality”. It is a most important concept, but I have not come across it […]
Read moreTowards an Obituary for Mme Solange Claustres
It was 23 May 2007, almost ten years ago to the day, when I met Madame Solange Claustres in her Paris apartment, not far from Notre Dame. I have never […]
Read moreReligion and the Arts, Gurdjieff Edition (Part 2)
The second article in this edition happens to be my article: “The Readiness Is All: Gurdjieff’s Art of the Preparation”, the title being taken from Hamlet. It deals with Gurdjieff’s […]
Read more“On the earth, under the sun”
This is from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986. I was struck by how Katrina’s observations tallied with what I had been saying in my post “Why do we […]
Read moreGurdjieff Edition of Religion and the Arts
The journal Religion and the Arts is published by Boston College, a Jesuit research university in Massachusetts. The 2017 edition is a double number, described as a special issue “G.I. […]
Read moreAnger
This was written chiefly to help parishioners who have children and find themselves unable to maintain their tempers. The enormous debt to Mr Adie is gratefully acknowledged. Joseph Azize, 29 April […]
Read moreThree News Items on Nature
Here are three news items: first, Noam Chomsky being interviewed on the topic: “What We Really Want” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I The interviewer begins saying, in a very self-satisfied way, that he and […]
Read moreForms of Experience as a Road Back
This is from the meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986, at Newport. The exercise for the month was something like to take one definite half hour period each day, chosen […]
Read more“Just go quietly, when you’re tired …”
This is some advice Mr Adie gave “Adam” on Thursday 19 March 1986, At the end of the exchange, he noticed that “Mike” was in a poor state, and even […]
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