Tuesday 29 February 1944, pp. 121-126 Previously unpublished The director asks for volunteers to help with the washing up. J.B. offered. Gurdjieff: You have enough strength for the washing up […]
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Category: Articles
Table of Contents and Index, Paris Groups 1944
The table of contents and index for this volume are so large, now that I am over one third of the way through, that I shall publish them in this […]
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Nicoll: What Gurdjieff Said about Decisions
I do not find all of Nicoll’s “psychological commentaries” equally valuable. They are rarely mediocre, but on some occasions, I have the impression that Nicoll, who wrote these as weekly […]
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My Review of “The Reality of Being”
On the morning of Thursday 4 March 2021, Sydney time, I received an email titled “Your Review of The Reality of Being.” The entirety of the body of the email […]
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Identifying with the Past
Part One I think that one of the major points one will come to in the work of spiritual development, is to realise that one is identifying with the past. […]
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For 13 January: Some Principles of the Exercises (Paris Groups 1944, Pt XI, 23 January)
Part One I am revisiting Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope with the audiobook. It is helping me pick up details I had missed before. Two of these, bearing the […]
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Paris Groups, 1944 (Pt IX, 20 January 1944 cont.) Aim and Posterity
Part One The next question was from M.W., whom Gurdjieff described as his “opposite” (mon vis-à-vis). M.W. said that when he was a child he was very fearful. Now, for […]
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An Ablutions Discipline
Part One “I remember very little about those first few weeks (at Sherborne, with J. G. Bennett) except that my feet were killing me. It was my own fault. I […]
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Two Wonderful Words: “Snug” and “Order”
The word “snug” – “comfortable, lying close and warm” (Skeat) – comes from Scandinavian words which meant “smooth” (as in smooth wool or hair), also “short-haired” and hence “smooth” or […]
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Words Result from the Notice of Mind (Part I)
New words are marks left by the visit of a mind. A particular thought or feeling, some instinctive or physical reaction expresses itself, and impress itself upon us enough for […]
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