I have Fritz Peters’ books Boyhood with Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff Remembered as part of the one-volume edition titled My Journey with a Mystic. Mr Adie, who knew Gurdjieff and had met Peters, but […]
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Month: October 2018
George Adie: “Anything Less than the Miraculous Is not the Work” (5 March 1987 Pt I)
Conscious of the approach of the 29th, this is the first selection from a meeting of Thursday 5 March 1987 with Mr Adie. The first question came from Denis who […]
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Helen Adie: The Movements are Analogous to Life
This is but the first part of the first question and answer from Thursday 4 October 1979. The first question was from Jake. He said: “What I have noticed is […]
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Identification with Self-Hatred
I recall that, on one occasion, Mr Adie said words to the effect of: “People often ask, ‘what should I do?’, and will not be satisfied for very long unless […]
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Keith Buzzell, “The Third Striving”
I have been re-reading some of the late Keith Buzzell’s books. I wrote a review of The Third Striving for a journal named Parabola. Some of it was quite pretentious, and embarrasses […]
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“Sancho Is More Important than the Wall” (Saturday 12 November 1988, Pt V)
These are the last questions from this day of work. Gotham said that he had wanted to do the job on the stone wall quickly, but knew that he would be […]
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
This interesting hardcover book won’t tell you what the Lord looked like, but it will tell you five things about his appearance: (1) what he most probably wore; (2) what […]
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Being a “Clever Dick” (Saturday 12 November 1988 Pt IV)
The next question at the lunch table came from Frizzy, who said that she had been dissatisfied with her efforts that day, and at the stops she had not not […]
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