Why do we not take more interest in the washing-up? It is a regular daily activity, and occupies some time. Purely from a pragmatic perspective, it would be of benefit […]

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One work weekend, Mr Adie gave us a theme which he had first learnt from Ouspensky: to think long thoughts. He said that it was one of “those mysterious things […]

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The Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review has published my article “P. D. Ouspensky’s First Revision of Tertium Organum.” It is in the 2023 edition, volume 14 (1) 47-67. I think it is a […]

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His Justice Is Perfected in His Mercy In the ancient Syriac conception, there is no contradiction whatever between the justice of God and His mercy. Rather, they are both aspects […]

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On 9 December 1930, Gurdjieff said: “… an aspirant to learn to be a pianist, can never learn except little by little. If you wish to play melodies at first […]

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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, […]

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It seems to me, now, that when one comes to the question of self-love, one has come to a fundamental matter in the spiritual life. Of course, one can come […]

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You know the scene from the end of the Beelzebub narrative, that is, the end of chapter 47, the final mention of Beelzebub and his grandson. Hassein asks his grandfather how […]

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At the end of a lecture delivered on 14 February 1974 lecture, Bennett was asked whether he could speak of self-remembering in relation to the theory he had unfolded of […]

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Toomer closes chapter 11 (12) with these stirring words:  People, you can awake and be. You can outgrow the condition you are now in, and what you think to be […]

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