Joining a Gurdjieff Group / School After I published an article online some time ago (no longer available) regarding Gurdjieff work groups, a prospective student of the Gurdjieff work emailed some questions. What follows is Part III of my response to the prospective student’s queries. (The student’s questions have been abbreviated.) Read Part I here […]
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Further Advice on Joining a Gurdjieff Work Group
More Thoughts on Joining a Gurdjieff Group / School After I published an article online some time ago (no longer available) regarding Gurdjieff work groups, a prospective student of the Gurdjieff work emailed some questions. What follows is Part II of my response to the prospective student’s queries. (The student’s questions have been abbreviated.) Read […]
Advice on Joining a George Gurdjieff Work Group
Some Thoughts on Joining a Gurdjieff Group / School After I published an article online some time ago (no longer available) regarding Gurdjieff work groups, a prospective student of the Gurdjieff work emailed some questions. The article had contained biblical quotations often used by groups to support their arguments. What follows is my response to […]
How Do We Pray & To Whom?
Who exactly, will we be communicating with? Something outside ourselves? Something within ourselves? Or perhaps some form of combined energy emanating from us all? In any event, invisible help does seem to be available and it doesn’t appear to be necessary to define it before relating to it. If you don’t really believe in such […]
What Is The Point of “Being Present”?
The following quotation from the late Robert S de Ropp (“Self-Completion”, 1988), reveals much about our usual way of being. “The full awareness of my own being is given to me only now and then. Why? Because most of the time, I am lost in fantasy. I am definitely, not here now. I am wondering […]