Wim Van Dullemen, Gurdjieff’s Movements: The Pattern of All and Everything, replublished and available in a limited edition at https://www.bythewaybooks.com/pages/books/20986/wim-van-dullemen/the-gurdjieff-movements-a-communication-of-ancient-wisdom When I say that this book is essential for anyone […]

This is a shortened copy of my earlier review of this excellent book. Discovering Gurdjieff, Dorothy Phillpotts, 2008, AuthorHouse, Central Milton Keynes, ISBN 9781434388711 (soft cover), 9781434388728 (soft cover) This […]

THE 1500 Series: Gurdjieff’s Ideas in daily life, W.A. Nyland, Land House, Occidental, 2019, CA (available from By the Way Books). 377 pp. plus preface and introduction. This is an […]

I thought it might be worthwhile taking a few more words for research today. Aback, must mean something to do with the back. But exactly what? Already by 1944, the […]

I have mentioned that I am preparing a plan for a serious, quality volume on the late John G. Bennett. I cannot say I have even commenced the book: apart […]

Part One I have already mentioned that, together with some friends, I have been planning a serious book on J.G. Bennett, written to traditional academic standards. As part of my […]

Part One Some of the material in Orage’s Commentaryis quite extraordinary. None of it is bad, but as I say, some of it is rather astounding. That applies to what […]

In previous posts I have mentioned the work of Christian Wertenbaker. In this one, I review his book The Enneagram of G.I. Gurdjieff: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Music, and Meaning, published in 2017 by […]

N.B. I revised this review on 13 January 2024, trimming a few words here and there, but leaving it basically unchanged. Although many people I know and esteem intensely disliked this […]