Toomer closes chapter 11 (12) with these stirring words: People, you can awake and be. You can outgrow the condition you are now in, and what you think to be […]
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Toomer closes chapter 11 (12) with these stirring words: People, you can awake and be. You can outgrow the condition you are now in, and what you think to be […]
Read moreTwice in a row, now, Toomer experiences one truth and then, immediately afterwards, its apparent opposite: rather, I think, he sees one pole of a matter, then the other pole, […]
Read moreToomer develops his insight that the health of psyche and body are interrelated in a manner stimulated by his direct insight that “the entire ordinary self oppresses and deranges the […]
Read moreToomer’s relationship to his body now began to change. He had previously made observations such as how, looking around his apartment as if for the first time, he saw the […]
Read moreThis third chapter, “Birth above the Body,” treats of the conception of a new understanding of his being, the body, and how our usual identification with the body keeps us […]
Read morePart I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ Gurdjieff said that the key to everything was to remain separate. I think this is what is behind Toomer’s experience that: [My life] was […]
Read morePart I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ I am going to jump from what was written there to a description of a state which we can fairly call “self-remembering.” It comes […]
Read moreWhat is it like to be able to remember myself, in practical terms? Surely there can be no one comprehensive answer, as each “self” is unique (at least theoretically). But […]
Read moreI think that the further one advances along the Gurdjieff work, the more one feels the desirability of uniting Beelzebub’s tribesmen, so to speak. There are many questions, for example, […]
Read moreThis follows a line begun in this post, albeit in a tangent: https://www.josephazize.com/2023/06/14/was-gurdjieff-spied-on/ In 1931, Ethel Merston began a stormy relationship with a 13-year-old girl known to us only as “Claire.” […]
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