This is the first selection from the meeting of Tuesday 28 June 1983 with Mrs Helen Adie. Jack spoke first: “Mrs Adie, today I was able to observe myself in […]
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A Newly Published Gurdjieff Anecdote (Wednesday 9 October 1985, Pt V)
Part One As we saw in Pt IV of this meeting, Mr Adie gave sustained and careful attention to a question from Jill. When, after quite some exchange, he saw […]
Read morePride Goes Before the Fall (Wednesday 9 October 1985, Pt IV)
Part One The next question was from Gary, who said that he forms some sort of intention in the morning, and during the day he has a moment of possibility […]
Read moreGeorge Adie: “Revalue all Values” (Wednesday 9 October 1985, Pt III)
Part One This question from Hans continues the meeting of 9 October. “Mr Adie,” he said: “for some weeks I’ve been trying to observe my behaviour in relation to other […]
Read moreGeorge Adie: “A Little Sleep, a Little Slumber”, (Wednesday 9 October 1985, Pt II)
Part One Mr Adie put a great deal of effort into this question, and spent as much time on it as he would on two or three questions. The question […]
Read moreGeorge Adie on the Importance of ‘Flashes’ (Wednesday 9 October 1985, Pt I)
This is the first two of the reports from the meeting of Wednesday 9 October 1985. Liza said that she noticed that her negative emotions would become so powerful that […]
Read moreBennett on the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development (Part Six)
Part One I have so far written five posts on the volume, the first of which dealt mainly with A.G.E. Blake’s concise introduction, can be found here: http://www.josephazize.com/2017/12/23/bennett-on-the-relationship-between-sex-and-spiritual-development/ Before proceeding […]
Read moreGeorge Adie on Inner Fears (Thursday 29 August 1985, Pt I)
This was the first question from the evening of Thursday 29 August 1985. I have set it out in full with no editing whatsoever. It is not so much what […]
Read moreMaurice Nicoll, “The New Man” – Violence and Truth
One of the odd things about the Shambhala edition of this book is that, so far as I could find, it does not mention that it was first published in […]
Read moreMore on Gurdjieff and the Moon
Note of 4 March 2022 When I wrote this piece in March 2019, I thought that the piece on the Moon and consciousness of sensation, had probably been written by […]
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