One well educated person I know considers The Bride of Lammermoor to have been Sir Walter Scott’s greatest novel. I think it is a great novel, and an underestimated one, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Sugar is a Plague
I am absolutely serious. Sugar is a plague. To take just one example, on 20 February 2016, Australia newspapers reported that “Children as young as five are having all their […]
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Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope: Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York, 1935-1939 and 1948-1949, Book Studio, London, 2012 271pp. comprising a chronology from 1865 to […]
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Mr Adie on Bankruptcy and Catastrophe in general
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 2 April 1986, in response to a man who was on the brink of bankruptcy. Mr Adie said: “You tell yourself that it […]
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Farwell, Keith Emerson, and may you find peace
The recent death by suicide of Keith Emerson on 10 March 2016 was an ugly tragedy. One of the greatest keyboard players to record in the last fifty years, a […]
Read moreWhy we should cook with olive oil
I first became aware of the danger of cooking foods in vegetable oils when I saw an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on9 November 2015, p.2. It has taken […]
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The Prayer of the Heart
Gurdjieff and the Prayer of the Heart Gurdjieff taught that techniques such as fasting, confession and prayer were not only valuable, but essential for any seeker. Gurdjieff gave few indications […]
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The Flywheel
The Flywheel In this meeting from Wednesday 2 April 1986, Mr Adie made reference to the image of the flywheel, one which he had used from time to time. Fortunately, […]
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Behind Real I Lies God
“Behind Real I Lies God” Part One “Behind real I lies God”, said Gurdjieff. And one possible expression of the feeling-quality of the relationship between real I and God is […]
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