I think that the further one advances along the Gurdjieff work, the more one feels the desirability of uniting Beelzebub’s tribesmen, so to speak. There are many questions, for example, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
“Herald of Coming Good,” Audiobook
Available now on Audiobook, is a recording of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Herald of Coming Good by my esteemed friend and colleague, A.G.E. Blake. At the bottom of this page I provide a […]
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Merston, “Claire,” and the Dangers of Prematurely Separating out the Astral and Physical Bodies
This follows a line begun in this post, albeit in a tangent: https://www.josephazize.com/2023/06/14/was-gurdjieff-spied-on/ In 1931, Ethel Merston began a stormy relationship with a 13-year-old girl known to us only as “Claire.” […]
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Idries Shah’s Attraction for the Wilfully Blind
The Moral: Idries Shah’s writing on St Francis of Assisi brought me to a fairly important understanding: his technique, I contend, was to write such utter balderdash that anyone who […]
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Was Gurdjieff Spied On?
The moral: To my mind, one of the most powerful signs of Gurdjieff’s deep compassion was how he knowingly accepted as his “pupil” a woman who was spying on him, and […]
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Emotional Disturbance
Why do we suffer emotional disturbance, and what can be done about it? Also, one might ask, what can be done with it, because it is a lawful phenomenon, and […]
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A Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence (Part 1)
A Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence, Anthony Blake, DuVersity, Charles Town, 2010 This is rather a unique book. I shall need to ponder it further, but I wish at this […]
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A Sense of Proportion: George Adie, 25 February 1988
On 25 February 1988, Mr Adie made a number of interesting comments. The questions do not all deserve report, but these responses were of value. One question was by a […]
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Gurdjieff’s Contemplative Exercises and his Movements
Movement implies the animation of a still point. When a still point is realised through Gurdjieff’s Aiëssirittoorassnian-contemplation, it is poised, it is disposed to receive animation from a higher influence, and […]
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The Second Assisting Exercise, Henriette Lannes
In Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Gurdjieff presented three exercises, the Soil Preparing and the First and Second Assisting Exercises. I have dealt with these in the book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, […]
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