from the meeting of Thursday 20 November 1986 at Newport. Alexander: The exercise I tried with counting was very successful in the time that I tried it for three days. […]
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Gurdjieff: Some References to Love
Some 25 years ago now, the Journal of Contemporary Religion published an interesting article by Sophia Wellbeloved, titled: “G. I. Gurdjieff: Some References to Love” (Vol. 13, No. 3, 1998, […]
Read moreFor One Day, May Beelzebub’s Tribe Come Together
On 8 June 2023, I posted this: https://www.josephazize.com/2023/07/08/what-can-it-be-to-unite-beelzebubs-tribe/ The time has now come. If you wish to hear the reading on 28 December, the Zoom link for both of the two occasions is: […]
Read moreReview, Tilo Ulbricht “Recollections” (Pt 6, final)
This shall be the sixth and last post devoted to the contents of this book. I now have a better overall picture of it and its significance. It seems to […]
Read moreThe Body as a Womb within a Transcendent Body (Ulbricht, Pt 5)
The Body is a sort of Womb within Great Nature This post takes something in Ulbricht’s book as a point of departure, but develops just one question. Most of what […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 4)
The New Work Ulbricht began learning the Gurdjieff system as taught by people who knew him, and who were using most of the methods and many of the ideas Gurdjieff […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 3)
Errors There are some spelling errors, chiefly in names, e.g. “Rena Hands” should be “Rina Hands,” “Guénon” is the proper spelling of the Traditionalist’s surname, not the different variuations in […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 2)
Chronology from 1974 In Part II, Ulbricht asks what it means to be responsible in a Gurdjieff group, especially using his experience inaugurating and running new groups, with the practical […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 1)
Review, Tilo Ulbricht, Recollections: Trying to Follow a Way, SomaHolis Publications; Calne, Wiltshire, 2022 (365 pp., no index) This is an intriguing book. From the front and back covers, you […]
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