The most important points I wished to make were in Part 1 of this review, where I considered the first of the two narratives in Ben Bennett’s book. The great […]
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“I Teach how to Cook,” Review Pt I, (Naivety and Clairvoyance)
Ben Bennett, I Teach how to Cook (… but not what to cook): A Story of John Godolphin Bennett, self-published, 2022 (249 pp., neither index nor bibliography). It seems to […]
Read moreWe work in order to die as we are, in order to be born as we can be (George Adie, 8 March 1988, Pt III)
Lina: Just recently I’ve found a part of my nature that’s very strongly critical and judgemental on other people. I sensed that it was always in me. It’s a pretty […]
Read moreThe Critical Importance of Feeling, (George Adie, 8 March 1988, pt II)
Luke: Last week, several people talked about how they were in a very black state. I felt it was my question was very much as well. What you said […]
Read more“You are objective to your own body,” George Adie, for the 13th
Saturday 5 September 1987 The Morning Address Mr. Adie: I would like to just ask: who here has had a moment of real separation when they were really outside their […]
Read morePayment
Principles of Payment in the Spiritual Life There are several aspects to the question of payment in the spiritual life, but I think they can all be reduced to two, […]
Read more“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer”
Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies […]
Read moreThe Icon: for Christmas 2022
from the meeting of Thursday 3 March 1988 Lilly: At the combined meeting you spoke of an icon, I can’t remember the precise words, it seemed to be, it’s something […]
Read moreReturning to the Centre (George Adie, 8 March 1988, Pt I)
This is edited material from the meeting of Tuesday 8 March 1988. Part One The first question was from Sally, who said that she could hear a very critical voice […]
Read moreSchumacher, Bennett, and Nicoll
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911-1977) was, at one time, an international figure for his visionary and ecologically aware approach to economics. His 1973 volume Small Is Beautiful was a global publishing […]
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