This is from the meeting of Wednesday 1 March 1989. The first question was from Dmitry, referring to the Soil Preparing Exercise from Life Is Real: “I’ve been trying the […]

This is a short, profound piece on the Movements by my late friend Michael Smyth; one of Beelzebub’s tribe. It is reprinted with permission of Barbara Walker Smyth, his widow, […]

Part One: The Open Letter from the Two Rivers Farm concerning the revised Beelzebub Simple question: if we can change one part of Gurdjieff’s legacy, and still call it Gurdjieff, why can we […]

This concludes the lengthy exchange. was not to be satisfied: “Well, we have the three centres, the body, the mind, and the emotional centre, but effectively, during the day the […]

Part Two It is significant that Moore distinguishes his critique of the new teaching from any criticism of those bearing it: “These startling propositions advanced with formidable intellectual refinement by French […]

Someone recently sent a jab in my direction, aiming not so much at what I said about “the New Work” in my book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises, as about what I […]

This continues the third question asked of Mr Adie on the evening of Wednesday 22 February 1989. The question was so long that I had to break it into two […]

This very lengthy exchange from the meeting of 22 February 1989 has to be broken into two parts. Edward  said: “Mr Adie, I was reading some books that were related […]

This is from the meeting of Wednesday 22 February 1989. The first question was interesting only because it was asked: “Is it possible that identification is connected with my negativity?” […]

Concluding the meeting of Tuesday 8 October 1985, Andy said that he had been helped by the suggestion to only work for a third of the day, because “I usually […]