This is from a weekend work of Sunday 23 February 1986 (it is not in his book) In the evening, a woman spoke about how she had been tired. […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Elizabeth Bennett: My Life, J.G.Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff
My Life, J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Bennett, J.G. Bennett Foundation, Petersham MA, 2016 This interesting book, really a collection of chapters, is welcome, not least […]
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Themes I, by Annie-Lou Staveley
Part One: Mrs Staveley Mrs Staveley was an extraordinary woman: there is no doubt about that. I was at her Two Rivers Farm between 1 and 18 January 1996, if […]
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Why I Won’t be Reading Harry Potter and the Pitiless Sequels
I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]
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What Should I Try to Understand?
This comes from a Tuesday night meeting at Newport on 23 November 1982. A woman whose voice I cannot identify asked Mrs Adie: “I felt very strong after the week-end […]
Read moreWhat is my State as I Speak?
This exchange comes from Saturday 22 March 1986 at Newport. Mr Adie had given the morning address, and now, at lunch and again at supper, people would bring questions. This […]
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Don’t put one tension up against another
This is from the meeting of Tuesday, 11 October 1983, at Newport. The second question of the evening came from Annabelle. I have not even tried to accurately render the […]
Read moreDithering
Formulation and Dithering It is a beautiful, entertaining word: “dithering”; quite one of the modest glories of the English language. You could spend the afternoon in nature, on a […]
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Formulations
Formulations play an enormous part in our lives. They are necessary: whenever we speak we use formulations: “Good morning”, “I am …”, “Would you like …”, “Can you tell me […]
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Mrs Adie and the “Rum Customer”
Part One This question and answer come from Tuesday 9 March 1982, at Newport. The “question”, almost a manifesto, took around thirty minutes. The basic message of this marathon effort […]
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