Part One The purpose of this post is simply to present a hypothesis about the changes in Gurdjieff’s life. Perhaps its chief value will be that it raises certain questions, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
The Basis of Hope, Sunday 16 July 1989
I think this was the last address Mr Adie delivered at the weekend work. Sunday 16 July 1989 This is a very special day, because what happens today […]
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The Masters of Wisdom (part 2)
On July 2019, I wrote this post http://www.josephazize.com/2019/07/06/bennett-the-masters-of-wisdom/ It dealt with preliminary matters, and with chapter 4 of Bennett’s book. A lot has happened since I wrote that. At that […]
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A Higher Communication: George Adie, Sunday 30 April 1989
This is from the morning address of Sunday 30 April 1989. The morning’s reading and those of the day before had been from the chapter “Beelzebub’s Opinion of War.” I had […]
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Sending Me Emails
Someone recently sent me an email from this site. It went into spam, and I accidentally deleted it when trying to delete other emails. I am told that this is […]
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Elwell-Sutton on Pseudo-Sufism
In the December 1972 edition of Encounter, Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton, a Professor of Persian and Middle Eastern studies published an article “Sufism & Pseudo-Sufism.” I had seen references to his […]
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Anthony Blake reading “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution” on Audible
Readers should note that the book on Audible is titled “Psychological Lectures 1934-1940”. Searching for “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution” will yield only a reading by DJ Holte. At […]
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Work on Myself
Part One Gurdjieff brought a concept of “work on myself.” Not just learning something, not just going out and doing something as instructed. He insisted that before any new knowledge […]
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Bennett on Instinctive Centre
There is an excellent chapter on the instinctive centre in Dorothy Phillpotts’ Discovering Gurdjieff, which I have already warmly reviewed. http://www.josephazize.com/2020/05/13/discovering-gurdjieff-dorothy-phillpotts/ She begins by speaking about how she had seen the […]
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Instinctive Centre, Scents, and the Work of Dreams
Part One This week our group took remembering myself while receiving impressions of smell and scent. We are not primarily trying to become more discriminating of scent and smell – […]
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