121. “When I was at the Institute in France I used to be told at about six o’clock in the morning when I was on a certain job that I […]
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Nicoll’s Scientific Papers
In the Maurice Nicoll Papers, Yale University Library, MS 1348, series 1, Box 3, folder 13 are 188 pages of his science study (at least several pages are missing, and […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part XIII)
Number 120, at the end, is of the greatest practical value. All of these are worthwhile, but that one is significant on several levels. 113. “Gurdjieff, when once asked if […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part XII)
97. “He cannot see that he is a machine and that everything he does the machine is doing and that he ascribes to himself a thousand and one things that […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part XI)
90. This ties in with #89, and like that, is only possibly from Gurdjieff: “The Work says: “Try to observe your songs”. That is all it says.” (1107, 10 January […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part X)
82(a). “(Man) remains, to use a phrase of the Work, an unfinished house.” (1020, 19 April 1947, 257th commentary) This is probably from Gurdjieff. It is interesting because we are […]
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Gurdjieff in Nicoll’s Commentaries (Part IX)
79. There is an enigmatic statement which may be from Gurdjieff. In context, Nicoll says “In this space, in this psychological or spiritual world, there are definite places where it […]
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Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the Science of Old Age. How we Can all Live Longer, Healthier and more Vital Lives, David Snowdon, Fourth Estate, London (237 pp. […]
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The Body as a Womb within a Transcendent Body (Ulbricht, Pt 5)
The Body is a sort of Womb within Great Nature This post takes something in Ulbricht’s book as a point of departure, but develops just one question. Most of what […]
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