At the basis of the practical methods brought by Gurdjieff, are the work with sensation and feeling. In the masterful talk “Now I am sitting here …” he gives perfectly […]

I have now completed my first reading of volume 2 of the Dramatic Universe. As with volume 1, I am quite certain I have only engaged with it superficially, and […]

From Crna Cora to Taliesin, Black Mountain to Shining Brow, The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, compiled and edited by Maxine Fawcett-Yeske and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ORO Editions, 2017 (no […]

I have now completed my first reading the first volume of The Dramatic Universe. I do not even vaguely pretend to have understood it. There were some pages of which […]

for part one of this review, see http://www.josephazize.com/2021/05/03/review-walker-why-we-sleep/ Part Two: Why Should You Sleep? I have always felt, and Walker establishes that: “Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. It is […]

Sleep Is an Esoteric Issue Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index)   This is a […]

Jane Heap / Notes, Two Rivers Press, Aurora, Oregon, 1983 (second edition 2002) for availability see  Two Rivers Press — Two Rivers Farm Jane Heap (1883-1964) was a most extraordinary woman. […]

Tuesday 1 February 1944, pp.73-78 G.B. said that he was losing energy, especially through his emotions. He cannot follow Gurdjieff’s advice to be a good egoist, because of these emotions […]

Speaking about this energy, Mrs Pogson says that it is a borrowed energy, which when borrowed lasts “for a time,” and may temporarily sustain us, but “it is not yours”. […]

And now we come to heart of this book. Pogson produced a diagram of accumulators, associating the intellectual, emotional, and moving/instinctive centres, with the large accumulator on the right hand […]