Review Roberta Chromey, Real People: At The Pinnacle with Irmis Popoff and at the Second Basic Course at Sherborne House with J.G. Bennett, a Memoire, Red Elixir, NY (2022) 336 […]
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Allen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 3
As we draw to the end of the course, a poignant note emerges, e.g. in the report of how Bennett hoped that the morning exercise would produce a reservoir of […]
Read moreAllen Roth in Sherborne, Part 2
In chapter 8, Roth comes to the theme meetings, where Bennett had “a general rule only to report actual observations” (49). There is one thing I disagree with: Roth quotes […]
Read moreAllen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 1
There is a rather valuable and well-written book, Sherborne: An Experiment in Transformation, by Allen Roth. Only 118 pages with an index, it is, nonetheless a contribution to the Gurdjieff […]
Read more“Christ the Yogi”?
Recently, a friend sent me an astonishingly powerful study for an icon of Ss John and Prochoros. Pondering it, I recalled that a few years ago, a friend had given […]
Read moreAudiobook: “Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I AM’,”
A.G.E. Blake’s reading of the Third Series is now available at Audiobooks: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Life-Is-Real-Only-Then-When-I-Am-Audiobook/B0B4RPXCQ8?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=74d71ce1-f90f-405f-b4c3-d38cdc1d6ae4&pf_rd_r=TMGFWDGN0Q4T9TDE3XRP Because I am a friend of his, and am much indebted to him in several ways, I am […]
Read more“Coombe Springs and its Beginnings,” Frances Allen
Frances Allen wrote an article titled “Coombe Springs and its Beginnings,” which was published in two parts in The Enneagram, June and September 1976. I only possess a typescript copy. […]
Read moreThe Masters of Wisdom (part 2)
On July 2019, I wrote this post http://www.josephazize.com/2019/07/06/bennett-the-masters-of-wisdom/ It dealt with preliminary matters, and with chapter 4 of Bennett’s book. A lot has happened since I wrote that. At that […]
Read moreAnthony Blake reading “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution” on Audible
Readers should note that the book on Audible is titled “Psychological Lectures 1934-1940”. Searching for “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution” will yield only a reading by DJ Holte. At […]
Read moreReview, The Philokalia, volume V
After many a long year, an English translation of the fifth book of the Philokalia is available. This is not the eternally promised translation by Kallistos Ware, but one under […]
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