I have now completed reading every word of Orage’s Commentary on Gurdjieff’s ‘Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson’. I am almost in awe of the man’s mind and his understanding. I am […]

Part One I have so far written five posts on the volume, the first of which dealt mainly with A.G.E. Blake’s concise introduction, can be found here: http://www.josephazize.com/2017/12/23/bennett-on-the-relationship-between-sex-and-spiritual-development/ Before proceeding […]

Note of 4 March 2022 When I wrote this piece in March 2019, I thought that the piece on the Moon and consciousness of sensation, had probably been written by […]

I recently found a second-hand copy of Anthony Storr’s Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus. I always like to consider a different perspective. In this case, it is not just a […]

There is a mystery about our selves, about other people, about human life on earth. The human world we live in possesses tremendous powers of both attraction and repulsions for […]

Orage continues: “… the review before death, as reported by survivors, is never censorious or didactic, nor is it a subject for either thought or feeling. Strangely enough, the review […]

Orage’s essay “On Dying Daily” is what, in my forthcoming study, I call a “discipline”. I think it is helpful to have employ terms than just “exercise”, so I speak […]

Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) was a very important figure in the development of the Gurdjieff teaching. I mean that quite literally. He did not merely help Gurdjieff by teaching the […]

Not so very long ago, a few of us read this passage from Tchekhovitch; that led to one thing, and that led to something else. First, Tchekhovitch: “If a new […]

I wonder if we do not all have this as part of our history: a feeling that we are inadequate? That we would have been better as someone else? That, […]