Sleep Is an Esoteric Issue Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index) This is a […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Table of Contents and Index, Paris Groups 1944
The table of contents and index for this volume are so large, now that I am over one third of the way through, that I shall publish them in this […]
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Nicoll: What Gurdjieff Said about Decisions
I do not find all of Nicoll’s “psychological commentaries” equally valuable. They are rarely mediocre, but on some occasions, I have the impression that Nicoll, who wrote these as weekly […]
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My Review of “The Reality of Being”
On the morning of Thursday 4 March 2021, Sydney time, I received an email titled “Your Review of The Reality of Being.” The entirety of the body of the email […]
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Identifying with the Past
Part One I think that one of the major points one will come to in the work of spiritual development, is to realise that one is identifying with the past. […]
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Jane Heap / Notes
Jane Heap / Notes, Two Rivers Press, Aurora, Oregon, 1983 (second edition 2002) for availability see Two Rivers Press — Two Rivers Farm Jane Heap (1883-1964) was a most extraordinary woman. […]
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Gurdjieff Uses a Word for “Contemplation” (Paris Groups, 1 February 1944, Pt XV)
Tuesday 1 February 1944, pp.73-78 G.B. said that he was losing energy, especially through his emotions. He cannot follow Gurdjieff’s advice to be a good egoist, because of these emotions […]
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Pogson, “Mind and Energy,” Pt III (final)
Speaking about this energy, Mrs Pogson says that it is a borrowed energy, which when borrowed lasts “for a time,” and may temporarily sustain us, but “it is not yours”. […]
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Pogson, “Mind and Energy,” Pt II
And now we come to heart of this book. Pogson produced a diagram of accumulators, associating the intellectual, emotional, and moving/instinctive centres, with the large accumulator on the right hand […]
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Mind and Energy, Pogson, Pt 1
Mind and Energy, Beryl Pogson, compiled Bob Hunter, Eureka Editions, Utrecht, 2000/2001, 114 pp. This is a very good book, probably the best collection of material from Beryl Pogson, who […]
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