This exchange with Mr Adie from Saturday 21 June 1986 has hardly been edited. It is a great example of how, in the being-confrontation with him, one could receive real […]
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Month: September 2017
Noticing Reminders
These are questions asked at the weekend work of Saturday 21 June 1986. The morning address was the one which I have posted dealing with the idea of seeing my […]
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Predisposition
For the morning of Saturday 21 June 1986, the first day of a weekend work, Mr Adie read from Beelzebub’s first visit to India. When he came to p.235, where […]
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This Glorious Gift of Life under the Sun
This is from the meeting of Wednesday 16 November 1988, at Newport. The first exchange was very brief. A lady said that someone in her family had been sick, and […]
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Planning
There two questions are from the meeting of Tuesday 21 June 1988, at Newport. The first question is the second part of the exchange with Larry. After asking a general […]
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Feeling changes. It has to. (Fertile in surprises)
These three questions are also from the meeting of Thursday 21 June 1985. A woman whose voice I cannot identify made a short declaration: “Mr Adie, I understood you to […]
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What Joins In?
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986, at Newport. It was a young man, whom I will call Richard, and who was new to the ideas. He […]
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Advancing towards a Shore which I Cannot See
This is the third question I am posting from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. The man, let us call him Tim, who asked this question, had been in […]
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Mr Adie on Swearing
This is from the meeting of Tuesday 24 June 1986. When Mr Adie told the joke about the political rally in the north of England, people laughed uproariously. I have […]
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The Practice of Unceasing Prayer
Introduction In an earlier posting, I mentioned that, in 1954, Kadloubovsky and Palmer had published a second volume of extracts from the Philokalia. Its full title is Early Fathers from […]
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