Notes for 15 September 2026 The 30th chapter of All and Everything, “Art,” is about how Art has become one of the factors which are “gradually, and … almost imperceptibly […]
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An Apparently Unpublished, and Incomplete, Paper by Dr Nicoll
This interesting paper, elegant in its forceful simplicity of thought, was left unfinished mid-sentence. It is among the papers at Edinburgh University. So far as I am aware, it has […]
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In Memoriam: Maurice Nicoll
Today is 30 August 2026. Nicoll died on 30 August 1953. I attach here some notes from Living Time. My interest in these is how they prefigure Gurdjieff’s “Expanded Present […]
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Audio Recording of the Gurdjieff Transcripts
Audible has released an audio-recording of the Book Studio edition of the Gurdjieff transcripts. https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Transcripts-of-Gurdjieffs-Meetings-1941-1946-Audiobook/B0HF12XP39?qid=1787999941&intent=discovery&sr=1-4&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=771c6463-05d7-4981-9b47-920dc34a70f1&pf_rd_r=6JEA5HWWWQZ92D5HR1QQ&plink=2WVN2H7aJQxvJgF8&pageLoadId=iqoVdVgCRYwdEZOh&creativeId=adcc4fec-4d90-49d1-997e-8be21d68ce7f&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_4 It is professionally read by Brendan Somers who even reproduces the type of breathings a […]
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Testing the Brain during Gurdjieff’s Contemplative Exercises
I recently sat for 90 minutes of brain testing. During that period, I spent 15 minutes relaxing, 15 minutes in the Collected State Exercise, then 15 in the Doubling/Separation Exercise, […]
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Wednesday 26 April 1983, Pt II Self-Praise and Self-Criticism
The point being made is here is significant. Henry said to Mr Adie: “Last time our group met, you said to me to bring some material, and I’ve been trying […]
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Anthony Blake Reads “Mount Analogue”
I have read little of his writings, but from what I can see, the unfinished Mount Analogue was Rene Daumal’s masterpiece. I believe that is also the general opinion. It […]
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Henri Tracol Remembers Gurdjieff on the Vibration of “I AM”
The notes I summarize here were written by Mr Adie under the heading “3 October 1951, Group II, Colet Gardens”. Their six pages relate to Henri Tracol’s exchanges with two […]
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Practical Work with Mr Adie: 26 April 1983
As a preliminary note, I am aware that much of this material has been covered in other posts, and in other books by other authors. I think that part of […]
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Important News on Sugar
I have previously written about sugar, for example, that “Drinking just one artificially sweetened drink every day has been associated with a three times greater risk of having a stroke […]
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