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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

The Work of Instinctive Centre We often take the moving and instinctive centres together, but at a certain point of one’s work, there is, I think, a real value in […]

M.D.   Can one do this exercise? Gurdjieff: You are on the list? No? Then it is not useful. It is not for everyone. As for the rest, this list will […]