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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

In The Masters of Wisdom, Bennett has a chapter on Christ. At the end of this short note, there is a link to George Bennett, his son, reading it. As you will […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Repairing the Past: Exploring the Practical Approach I have written about repairing the past before. Since we are our past, and it can only be repaired in the present, it is […]

Part One Several people have said to me, over the years, that it is either pointless or wrong to discuss Gurdjieff: he is simply beyond us. First, I think that […]