Saturday Evenings at Mendham, Conversations with Madame Ouspensky Part One Produced in 2018 by C. Smith, this is a rather odd little booklet, approximately half of it is blank. There […]
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Category: Reviews
Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes, 2nd edition
I am pleased to say that a second edition of Boris Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes has been published. It is available from By the Way Book: https://www.bythewaybooks.com/pages/books/26530/boris-ferapontoff/constantinople-notes-on-the-transition-to-man-number-4 The few typographical errors have […]
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The Paris Groups (1944)
I have very recently received the edition of the surviving transcripts of Gurdjieff’s Paris meetings in 1944. It is titled G.I. Gurdjieff, Groupes de Paris, Tome II: 1944. It is […]
Read moreReview, “Opening to the Real” by Frank R. Sinclair
Opening to the Real, Frank R. Sinclair, Codhill Press (New Paltz?), 2020, 128pp. Part One The third of Frank Sinclair’s books is, I think, his best. It is a unique […]
Read moreWim Van Dullemen on the Movements
Wim Van Dullemen, Gurdjieff’s Movements: The Pattern of All and Everything, replublished and available in a limited edition at https://www.bythewaybooks.com/pages/books/20986/wim-van-dullemen/the-gurdjieff-movements-a-communication-of-ancient-wisdom When I say that this book is essential for anyone […]
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“Discovering Gurdjieff,” Dorothy Phillpotts
This is a shortened copy of my earlier review of this excellent book. Discovering Gurdjieff, Dorothy Phillpotts, 2008, AuthorHouse, Central Milton Keynes, ISBN 9781434388711 (soft cover), 9781434388728 (soft cover) This […]
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Willem A. Nyland, “The 1500 Series”
THE 1500 Series: Gurdjieff’s Ideas in daily life, W.A. Nyland, Land House, Occidental, 2019, CA (available from By the Way Books). 377 pp. plus preface and introduction. This is an […]
Read moreWords” “Aback,” “Heist,” “Helicopter”
I thought it might be worthwhile taking a few more words for research today. Aback, must mean something to do with the back. But exactly what? Already by 1944, the […]
Read moreJ.G. Bennett, “Sunday Talks at Coombe Springs”
Way back in 2004, in Sunday Talks at Coombe Springs: Practical Themes for Human Transformation, Ken Pledge and a team published some 41 talks which Bennett had delivered at Coombe […]
Read moreBennett, “The Masters of Wisdom”
I have mentioned that I am preparing a plan for a serious, quality volume on the late John G. Bennett. I cannot say I have even commenced the book: apart […]
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