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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Twice in a row, now, Toomer experiences one truth and then, immediately afterwards, its apparent opposite: rather, I think, he sees one pole of a matter, then the other pole, […]

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Toomer develops his insight that the health of psyche and body are interrelated in a manner stimulated by his direct insight that “the entire ordinary self oppresses and deranges the […]

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Toomer’s relationship to his body now began to change. He had previously made observations such as how, looking around his apartment as if for the first time, he saw the […]

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This third chapter, “Birth above the Body,” treats of the conception of a new understanding of his being, the body, and how our usual identification with the body keeps us […]

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Part I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ Gurdjieff said that the key to everything was to remain separate. I think this is what is behind Toomer’s experience that: [My life] was […]

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Part I of this series is: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ I am going to jump from what was written there to a description of a state which we can fairly call “self-remembering.” It comes […]

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