Francois Grunwald, A Path out of Exile: With Gurdjieff in Post-War Paris, Red Elixir, 2025 This is a significant book for anyone interested in Gurdjieff, his system, and Western Esotericism. Such […]
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Category: Reviews
Maurice Nicoll, “Living Time”
I wish to suggest that the chief idea of Maurice Nicoll’s Living Time (first published in 1952, but completed earlier) may be not time, but rather that by a certain change in […]
Read moreA New Volume of Gurdjieff Studies
Volume 35, number 2, of Literature & Aesthetics, has been published. Although it has only now appeared (February 2026) it is dated 2025. It is the Journal of the Sydney Society of […]
Read moreJ.E. Nelson, Shakespeare and Hermetism
I have already introduced Dr Nelson’s book Shakespeare and Religio Mentis: A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays, Brill, 2022 – see https://www.josephazize.com/2025/04/03/nelson-shakespeare-and-hermetism/ I now come to chapter 2, “The […]
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The Career of Ikbal Shah: “Empire’s Son”
Part 2 of a review of Nile Green, Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah, W.W. Norton, New York, 2024, 369 pp. The first part appears […]
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Review: Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan
Nile Green, Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah, W.W. Norton, New York, 2024, 369 pp. This is a good book: the content is interesting and […]
Read more“What Happened In Between: A Doctor’s Story,” William J. Welch
Dr Welch was Gurdjieff’s final physician. This autobiography was published in 1972, some years before he died. Its 208 pages are chiefly devoted to his life and especially his medical […]
Read moreReview, “Thomas Keating,” by Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault (CB), Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic, Shambhala, Boulder, 2024 As CB states on p.208 “My deepest hope in writing this book is that those who […]
Read moreJ.H. Reyner “No Easy Immortality”
This is the strangest book. Published by George Allen & Unwin in 1979, it opens with this startling line: “What do you want to ask?” said my Angel one evening.(1) […]
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Blake: Audio Recording “In Search of the Miraculous”
In listening to his audio recording of In Search of the Miraculous, I more than once recalled how in The Supreme Art of Dialogue, my friend A.G.E. Blake wrote: “‘Genius’ was originally […]
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