There is an excellent chapter on the instinctive centre in Dorothy Phillpotts’ Discovering Gurdjieff, which I have already warmly reviewed. http://www.josephazize.com/2020/05/13/discovering-gurdjieff-dorothy-phillpotts/ She begins by speaking about how she had seen the […]
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Instinctive Centre, Scents, and the Work of Dreams
Part One This week our group took remembering myself while receiving impressions of smell and scent. We are not primarily trying to become more discriminating of scent and smell – […]
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The Work of Instinctive Centre We often take the moving and instinctive centres together, but at a certain point of one’s work, there is, I think, a real value in […]
Read moreThursday 10 August 1944, Pt II
M.D. Can one do this exercise? Gurdjieff: You are on the list? No? Then it is not useful. It is not for everyone. As for the rest, this list will […]
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A.D. Monsieur, you have also given the exercise of retaining the emanations (one has) around oneself. Well, I cannot succeed in that. I see how many things are escaping from […]
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Thursday 10 August 1944 previously published, Transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Wartime Meetings, 158-169 (Mr Gurdjieff has not yet arrived in the room. Mme de Salzmann asks for reports on “The Mlle […]
Read moreParis Groups: Thursday 17 August 1944, Pt IV (final)
Mme de Salzmann: Who still wishes to speak? Dr Blano: I have tried to change all that I have been doing when I work: and the circumstances have by themselves […]
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M.D. Can one do this exercise? Gurdjieff: You are on the list? No? Then it is not useful. It is not for everyone. As for the rest, this list will […]
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J.B. Mr Gurdjieff, I am now and have for a long time been muddled, which is why I have hesitated to speak to you. But while I am waiting, nothing […]
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GILLES B. I have a question which does not interest everyone on the conditions of life in relation to the work. May I ask it? When I lead an animal […]
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