For the morning of Saturday 21 June 1986, the first day of a weekend work, Mr Adie read from Beelzebub’s first visit to India. When he came to p.235, where […]
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This Glorious Gift of Life under the Sun
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 16 November 1988, at Newport. The first exchange was very brief. A lady said that someone in her family had been sick, and […]
Read morePlanning
There two questions are from the meeting of Tuesday 21 June 1988, at Newport. The first question is the second part of the exchange with Larry. After asking a general […]
Read moreFeeling changes. It has to. (Fertile in surprises)
These three questions are also from the meeting of Thursday 21 June 1985. A woman whose voice I cannot identify made a short declaration: “Mr Adie, I understood you to […]
Read moreWhat Joins In?
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986, at Newport. It was a young man, whom I will call Richard, and who was new to the ideas. He […]
Read moreAdvancing towards a Shore which I Cannot See
This is the third question I am posting from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. The man, let us call him Tim, who asked this question, had been in […]
Read moreMr Adie on Swearing
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. When Mr Adie told the joke about the political rally in the north of England, people laughed uproariously. I have […]
Read moreThe Practice of Unceasing Prayer
Introduction In an earlier posting, I mentioned that, in 1954, Kadloubovsky and Palmer had published a second volume of extracts from the Philokalia. Its full title is Early Fathers from […]
Read moreMr Adie on “Human Mathematics”
This exchange comes from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. Just when I start thinking that I have heard most everything Mr Adie had to say, I find myself […]
Read moreThe Ballad of John and Yoko
I do not consider this to be one of Lennon’s great songs, but it is much under-rated both for its musical and its cultural depth. It draws on a variety […]
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