Although a number of transcripts of Gurdjieff’s group meetings during the 1940s have been gathered in one volume (Transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Meetings 1941-1946 2nd revised & enlarged edition), one important […]
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Repairing the Past
I began this blog with the intention of writing something quite specific about repairing the past. As I came to the middle of it, I found that the train of […]
Read moreMr Adie on not Being Able to See or Accept
This comes from the evening exchange on Sunday 23 March 1986, at Newport. The young man who spoke said that he hadn’t liked the job he was doing, which was […]
Read moreMr Adie: No Effort Is Worthless
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. […]
Read moreThemes 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 […]
Read moreWhat 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 […]
Read moreDon’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 […]
Read moreMrs 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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