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 […]

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 […]

The Source of All Life We have been spoken to of God in many ways, about the immense creative force that has set before us this boundless world, impossible to […]

Note: Someone recently reported to me trying the below exercise, and that the results had been “damaging” as the person had chosen someone about whom they felt remorse for their own […]

My article on Gurdjieff and Crowley has been published in Correspondences, “Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic: The Case of Gurdjieff and Crowley,” Correspondences, 8 (no. 2), 2020, 157-217. This edition of […]

Introduction   Why study negative emotions at all? Any answer better than “curiosity” must depend upon my aim. Without a good conscious aim, even the desire to become free of […]

I do not find all of Nicoll’s “psychological commentaries” equally valuable. They are rarely mediocre, but on some occasions, I have the impression that Nicoll, who wrote these as weekly […]

On the morning of Thursday 4 March 2021, Sydney time, I received an email titled “Your Review of The Reality of Being.” The entirety of the body of the email […]

Part One  I think that one of the major points one will come to in the work of spiritual development, is to realise that one is identifying with the past. […]