In the December 1972 edition of Encounter, Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton, a Professor of Persian and Middle Eastern studies published an article “Sufism & Pseudo-Sufism.” I had seen references to his […]

Part One Gurdjieff brought a concept of “work on myself.” Not just learning something, not just going out and doing something as instructed. He insisted that before any new knowledge […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]