So Giuseppe Fiorentino of L’Osservatore Romano feels that some of Bob Dylan’s lyrics are beautiful with an intensity of which only “true artists” are capable: “di un’intensità di cui solo […]

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The Importance of Probing (The Beatles: Eight Days A Week) I saw the movie: the first I have seen in about two years. And it was worth it. In fact, […]

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Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York: Talks and Lectures with A.R. Orage 1924-1931, Book Studio, (London?), 2017 (forthcoming) The cover depicts Gurdjieff and Orage in earnest conversation outside The Sunwise Turn […]

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My Life, J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Bennett, J.G. Bennett Foundation, Petersham MA, 2016 This interesting book, really a collection of chapters, is welcome, not least […]

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I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]

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A Child of the Sun, Pierce Butler, Beech Hill, Mount Desert ME, 2016   (I have been given a pre-publication of this book: it is not slated for release until […]

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Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope: Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York, 1935-1939 and 1948-1949, Book Studio, London, 2012   271pp. comprising a chronology from 1865 to […]

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“When a man dies, he becomes a teacher to his friends”. So wrote Jacob of Serugh, one of the most important liturgical poets in the history of Christianity. He must […]

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This is a note from Milton Heiberg, the brilliant photographer who took the cover shot on this book. “My photo of John Lennon is now on his latest biography. It […]

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