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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Merston, “Claire,” and the Dangers of Prematurely Separating out the Astral and Physical Bodies
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.” […]
Read moreIdries Shah’s Attraction for the Wilfully Blind
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 […]
Read moreWas Gurdjieff Spied On?
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 […]
Read moreEmotional Disturbance
Why do we suffer emotional disturbance, and what can be done about it? Also, one might ask, what can be done with it, because it is a lawful phenomenon, and […]
Read moreA Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence (Part 1)
A Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence, Anthony Blake, DuVersity, Charles Town, 2010 This is rather a unique book. I shall need to ponder it further, but I wish at this […]
Read moreA Sense of Proportion: George Adie, 25 February 1988
On 25 February 1988, Mr Adie made a number of interesting comments. The questions do not all deserve report, but these responses were of value. One question was by a […]
Read moreGurdjieff’s Contemplative Exercises and his Movements
Movement implies the animation of a still point. When a still point is realised through Gurdjieff’s Aiëssirittoorassnian-contemplation, it is poised, it is disposed to receive animation from a higher influence, and […]
Read moreThe Second Assisting Exercise, Henriette Lannes
In Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Gurdjieff presented three exercises, the Soil Preparing and the First and Second Assisting Exercises. I have dealt with these in the book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, […]
Read moreMr Adie on Aim (25 February 1988)
This is from the meeting of Thursday 25 February 1988. It is worth studying not only for what he says about aim, but also for how he leads “Amy” to see […]
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