At the meeting of 26 September 1979, Mrs Adie asked people what had brought them to the work. Most of these had joined only two years ago. In the event, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Gurdjieff’s “Help for the Deceased”Exercise
Note: Someone recently reported to me trying the below exercise, and that the results had been “damaging” as the person had chosen someone about whom they felt remorse for their own […]
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Gurdjieff and Crowley
My article on Gurdjieff and Crowley has been published in Correspondences, “Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic: The Case of Gurdjieff and Crowley,” Correspondences, 8 (no. 2), 2020, 157-217. This edition of […]
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Thoughts on Studying Negative Emotions (Part One)
Introduction Why study negative emotions at all? Any answer better than “curiosity” must depend upon my aim. Without a good conscious aim, even the desire to become free of […]
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Wish and Energy (Mrs Adie, 3 December 1983, Pt II)
That’s a good observation. Of course I can fall asleep. I think most people find it hard in the afternoon. Nothing goes in a straight line, of course it’s the […]
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Mrs Adie on Struggle and Aim (Thursday 4 March 1982, final)
This is the last excerpt from the meeting of Thursday 4 March 1982. Margaret, sounding rather depressed, said: “Mrs Adie, I feel I have going in me an aim, although I […]
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My Aim Is not to not Swagger, but to Awaken (Mrs Adie, Thursday 4 March 1982)
The next question was from Alberic. He said that although he had a couple of shocks where he had seen himself identified with his health, thinking he was ill, there […]
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“Mrs Adie, I Have No Feeling” (4 March 1982, pt 2)
The next question was from Cal: “Mrs Adie, recently a statement particularly struck a chord with me, Gurdjieff said that some people wanted to take on the new without giving […]
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“Bad Conscience,” Helen Adie, Thursday 4 March 1982
This is the first question from a group meeting of 1982 with Mrs Adie. I have tried to retain her turn of phrase, even where it might not be entirely […]
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Why Should You Sleep? (Part Two of Walker, Why We Sleep)
for part one of this review, see http://www.josephazize.com/2021/05/03/review-walker-why-we-sleep/ Part Two: Why Should You Sleep? I have always felt, and Walker establishes that: “Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. It is […]
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