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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

[The next question and answer are not in the English.] Dr H.   What is the rule [critère] for changing their breed? It varies with all … Mme de Salzmann:   Mr […]

At the basis of the practical methods brought by Gurdjieff, are the work with sensation and feeling. In the masterful talk “Now I am sitting here …” he gives perfectly […]

I have now completed my first reading of volume 2 of the Dramatic Universe. As with volume 1, I am quite certain I have only engaged with it superficially, and […]

From Crna Cora to Taliesin, Black Mountain to Shining Brow, The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, compiled and edited by Maxine Fawcett-Yeske and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ORO Editions, 2017 (no […]

I have now completed my first reading the first volume of The Dramatic Universe. I do not even vaguely pretend to have understood it. There were some pages of which […]

for part one of this review, see http://www.josephazize.com/2021/05/03/review-walker-why-we-sleep/ Part Two: Why Should You Sleep? I have always felt, and Walker establishes that: “Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. It is […]

Sleep Is an Esoteric Issue Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index)   This is a […]