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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Author: Joseph Azize
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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Prospectus of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (Part 2)
Continuing from https://www.josephazize.com/2024/11/20/prospectus-of-the-institute-for-the-harmonious-development-of-man-part-1/ (4) The failure of the three centres to co-ordinate is due to the fact that there are, as it were, three different men in a single individual, the […]
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Jon Woodson: “The Emblematic Novel” (Part 2)
Professor Woodson states that his “unveiling of the emblematic novel” arose when he attempted to study the novels of Carl Van Vechten, using stylometry (19). Van Vechten had written a […]
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Prospectus of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (Part 1)
It would be great to see this published in book form, perhaps together with the original version of The Struggle of the Magicians. The document following is found in “Reel 4 […]
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