The second edition of Maronite meditations is now available on Youtube and Spotify (see the link below). As with the first podcast, I offer some preliminary thoughts, and then after about […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
13 January 2025
Last night the Gurdjieff Society of Newport met for the 13th. We began with Movements, culminating in “I Wish to Have Being” with Mrs Adie’s almost sublime music. The music […]
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Maronite Meditations
My first podcast is up on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcasts. I have posted many of the ideas on this page, but the new thing is that I shall, each […]
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Marty Makary, “Blind Spots”
Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets it Wrong and what it Means for our Health, Bloomsbury, NY, 2024 (265 pp.) The thesis of this book is that the practice of […]
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St Gregory Palamas’ “Defence”
Perhaps the one absolutely critical document for Hesychasm is “In Defence of those who Devoutly Practise a Life of Stillness,” found in vol. 4 of The Philokalia (Faber, 1995). It […]
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“A Selection from the Holy Fathers on Prayer and Attentiveness”
Continuing from my post on St Mark the Ascetic’s “Letter to Nicolas the Solitary,” I shall turn to “A Selection from the Holy Fathers on Prayer and Attentiveness,” in volume […]
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St Mark the Ascetic, “Letter to Nicolas the Solitary”
In the first volume of The Philokalia is St Mark the Ascetic’s “Letter to Nicolas the Solitary.” It is only about 14 pages long, but it has extraordinary depth. To obtain […]
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“The Staircase Shuffle,” Jon Woodson
The Staircase Shuffle, Jon Woodson, Wild Pineapple Press, Providence R.I., 2024 (268pp.) I have already favourably commented on some of Prof Woodson’s work (see the links at the bottom of […]
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Unite the Tribes, 28 December 2024
Last year, the Gurdjieff Society of Newport hosted a Zoom meeting, wherein all of Beelzebub’s tribe could be part of one international virtual-gathering. Here is the post which related to […]
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Gurdjieff’s Meetings 1941-1946
When you order in this book, please ensure you are ordering in the third edition, published only a few days ago. I checked on Amazon in Australia, it does not […]
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