The second edition of Maronite meditations is now available on Youtube and Spotify (see the link below). As with the first podcast, I offer some preliminary thoughts, and then after about […]
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13 January 2025
Last night the Gurdjieff Society of Newport met for the 13th. We began with Movements, culminating in “I Wish to Have Being” with Mrs Adie’s almost sublime music. The music […]
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Maronite Meditations
My first podcast is up on Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Podcasts. I have posted many of the ideas on this page, but the new thing is that I shall, each […]
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Marty Makary, “Blind Spots”
Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets it Wrong and what it Means for our Health, Bloomsbury, NY, 2024 (265 pp.) The thesis of this book is that the practice of […]
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St Gregory Palamas’ “Defence”
Perhaps the one absolutely critical document for Hesychasm is “In Defence of those who Devoutly Practise a Life of Stillness,” found in vol. 4 of The Philokalia (Faber, 1995). It […]
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Gurdjieff’s Meetings 1941-1946
When you order in this book, please ensure you are ordering in the third edition, published only a few days ago. I checked on Amazon in Australia, it does not […]
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Nicoll on False Personality as Vanity and Self-Conceit
In my last post on Nicoll I mentioned how his understanding of False Personality seemed promising. It is strange how things work out. I was not pursuing that idea, but […]
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For 29 October 2024: Extract from an Early Draft of ISM
This extract was not included in the final draft of In Search of the Miarculous. It was made available in The Institute Magazine. This was a Bennett-linked journal. I have no further […]
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Gurdjieff on Man’s Nothingness
I will freely avow that I had not realised the importance of what Gurdjieff said about our nothingness until quite recently. I will explain this in more detail later. For […]
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The Art that Counts (Tuesday 13 October 1987) Mr Adie
Zara: About eight months ago I had a car accident and everything that was natural to me like talking, walking, etc, had to be relearned. I tried to remember that […]
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