“The Troubled Spirit of Tintern Abbey” is an interesting story from Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book (1936, pp. 201-204), chiefly because it relates to Purgatory and the effectiveness of Masses for […]
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Month: November 2016
Awake all over
The exchanges of Saturday 8 March 1985 were remarkable. They could all be published. I suppose it goes to show that “like seeks like”, and that “deep calls to deep”, […]
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Mr Adie on Satisfaction and Humility
These two questions and answers come from the lunch exchange of Saturday 8 March 1985. I have already posted Mr Adie’s address for the day, and the first question and […]
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Mr Adie on following the Moving Centre
This is from a Saturday Weekend Work of 8 March 1985. It assumes a knowledge of some of Gurdjieff’s simpler terminology, such as “moving centre”. I set out below Mr […]
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I Should Have Sent Roses
Sublime, poignant, elegiac: that is “I Should Have Sent Roses” from The Union, by Elton John and Leon Russell. In Gurdjieff-influenced terms, I would say that the person who wrote […]
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The Odes of Solomon, Ode 1
The Odes of Solomon are the oldest surviving hymnal from the early Christian world. They were probably written in ancient Syria, in the Syriac language, between 100 and 200 AD. […]
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Review of Steve Cannane, Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia, ABC, 2016
1. My Two Scientology Stories Before I come to this book, let me tell my two Scientology stories. First, I was a university student, walking near Central station with a […]
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Two New Gurdjieff Studies
First of all, I thank all those who have written to me concerning Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York (the back cover is shown here). No, it is not yet available, […]
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Peveril of the Peak
Despite the near-unanimous modern dislike of Sir Walter Scott’s Peveril of the Peak, I utterly enjoyed it, and what is more, I have profited. No novelist I know of matches […]
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The Gift of Life
This is the morning address from Saturday 8 March 1985. Mr Adie was generous, almost profligate, with his wisdom. It can be difficult to digest it all. Indeed, it is […]
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