The first three articles of this series were published as “In Practical Terms, What Is Self-Remembering?”, beginning with this one: http://www.josephazize.com/2023/08/11/in-practical-terms-what-is-self-remembering/ For better or for worse, I have decided to rename […]
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Three New Books from the Karnak Press
Karnak Press has kindly sent me three new books: Robin Bloor and Paula-Schmidt (eds), Sayings from the Gurdjieff Work, (iv + 193 + 3 pages of promotional material; hardcover) Nella […]
Read more“Herald of Coming Good,” Audiobook
Available now on Audiobook, is a recording of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Herald of Coming Good by my esteemed friend and colleague, A.G.E. Blake. At the bottom of this page I provide a […]
Read moreA Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence (Part 1)
A Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence, Anthony Blake, DuVersity, Charles Town, 2010 This is rather a unique book. I shall need to ponder it further, but I wish at this […]
Read moreReview of “I Teach how to Cook …” (Second and final part)
The most important points I wished to make were in Part 1 of this review, where I considered the first of the two narratives in Ben Bennett’s book. The great […]
Read more“I Teach how to Cook,” Review Pt I, (Naivety and Clairvoyance)
Ben Bennett, I Teach how to Cook (… but not what to cook): A Story of John Godolphin Bennett, self-published, 2022 (249 pp., neither index nor bibliography). It seems to […]
Read moreReview of “Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered”
Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered, Samuel Robinson, Pansophic Press, Oberstdorf, 2021. 307 pp. plus bibliography. This is a good and interesting volume. I had not ever heard of Mailander, but […]
Read moreBlake reading “Meetings” available on Audible
In 2013, a review I wrote of the MP3 recording of A.G.E. Blake’s reading of Meetings With Remarkable Men was published in a blog. Since then, I have revisited it, […]
Read moreReview of Roberta Chromey’s “Real People”
Review Roberta Chromey, Real People: At The Pinnacle with Irmis Popoff and at the Second Basic Course at Sherborne House with J.G. Bennett, a Memoire, Red Elixir, NY (2022) 336 […]
Read moreAllen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 3
As we draw to the end of the course, a poignant note emerges, e.g. in the report of how Bennett hoped that the morning exercise would produce a reservoir of […]
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