It would be great to see this published in book form, perhaps together with the original version of The Struggle of the Magicians. The document following is found in “Reel 4 […]
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Category: Articles
Nicoll on False Personality as Vanity and Self-Conceit
In my last post on Nicoll I mentioned how his understanding of False Personality seemed promising. It is strange how things work out. I was not pursuing that idea, but […]
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For 29 October 2024: Extract from an Early Draft of ISM
This extract was not included in the final draft of In Search of the Miarculous. It was made available in The Institute Magazine. This was a Bennett-linked journal. I have no further […]
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Maurice Nicoll – The Sun Octave and the Miracle of Life
Since I wrote my review of Lachman’s unfortunate biography of Maurice Nicoll, I have completed re-reading Informal Work Talks. The depth of insight there is even greater than I had […]
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“Only This Will Bring Results”
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: […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreVeni 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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