Steven J. Sutcliffe and I have collaborated on an article: “Only this will bring results: Practising Gurdjieff’s Exercises in a Search Culture.” It is now published in Intentional Transformative Experiences: […]
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Category: Articles
The Meeting of Tuesday 19 January 1943
I have only just noticed that the Dolmen Meadows Edition of the 1943 Paris Groups has a meeting, 19 January 1943, which is missing from the later 2020 French language […]
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De Salzmann on our Nothingness
Jeanne de Salzmann’s posthumous The Reality of Being has some good comments on nothingness. At page 14, we read: “I can escape only if I feel my absolute nothingness and begin to feel […]
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Gurdjieff on Man’s Nothingness
I will freely avow that I had not realised the importance of what Gurdjieff said about our nothingness until quite recently. I will explain this in more detail later. For […]
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Suggested Reading: Gurdjieff
The Fundamentals The single best introduction to Gurdjieff’s ideas and methods is P.D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, which he had undertaken to Gurdjieff he would write to help […]
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Veni Sancte Spiritus and Ancient Knowledge
I wonder if the Latin sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus may not be from ancient knowledge. It is a traditional Catholic hymn in a rhyming metre, which was numbered among the […]
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Taking an Interest in the Washing Up
Why do we not take more interest in the washing-up? It is a regular daily activity, and occupies some time. Purely from a pragmatic perspective, it would be of benefit […]
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Thinking Long Thoughts
One work weekend, Mr Adie gave us a theme which he had first learnt from Ouspensky: to think long thoughts. He said that it was one of “those mysterious things […]
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Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the Evidence of “Tertium Organum”
The Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review has published my article “P. D. Ouspensky’s First Revision of Tertium Organum.” It is in the 2023 edition, volume 14 (1) 47-67. I think it is a […]
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His Justice Is Perfected in His Mercy
His Justice Is Perfected in His Mercy In the ancient Syriac conception, there is no contradiction whatever between the justice of God and His mercy. Rather, they are both aspects […]
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