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 within […]
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Category: Reviews
Grossman: Assassination Generation (I)
Review, Lt Col. Dave Grossman, Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing, Little Brown and Company, NY (2016) 264 pp. This is a valuable book. It is […]
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Snowdon: Aging with Grace
Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the Science of Old Age. How we Can all Live Longer, Healthier and more Vital Lives, David Snowdon, Fourth Estate, London (237 pp. […]
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Wolfgang Smith, Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy, Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 248pp. plus index I was wondering about Teilhard de Chardin’s pervasive influence on the modern Catholic Church, or perhaps […]
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Review, Wolfgang Smith, Vedanta in the Light of Christian Wisdom
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Vedanta in the Light of Christian Wisdom, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation, 2022, 100 pages plus postscript, glossary, and index There are some extraordinary insights in this book. The […]
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Review, Tilo Ulbricht “Recollections” (Pt 6, final)
This shall be the sixth and last post devoted to the contents of this book. I now have a better overall picture of it and its significance. It seems to […]
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The Body as a Womb within a Transcendent Body (Ulbricht, Pt 5)
The Body is a sort of Womb within Great Nature This post takes something in Ulbricht’s book as a point of departure, but develops just one question. Most of what […]
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Tilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 4)
The New Work Ulbricht began learning the Gurdjieff system as taught by people who knew him, and who were using most of the methods and many of the ideas Gurdjieff […]
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Tilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 3)
Errors There are some spelling errors, chiefly in names, e.g. “Rena Hands” should be “Rina Hands,” “Guénon” is the proper spelling of the Traditionalist’s surname, not the different variuations in […]
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Tilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 2)
Chronology from 1974 In Part II, Ulbricht asks what it means to be responsible in a Gurdjieff group, especially using his experience inaugurating and running new groups, with the practical […]
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