This scheme of things is familiar to all followers of the 4th Way – The Ray of Creation depicted on the Octave… What are we to make of this? Unless we attempt to go beyond intellectual acceptance – to feel it on the pulse and take deliberate steps towards understanding – it will remain a […]
Multiple-I’s? We imagine that we are just one single ‘I’—‘I’ brush my teeth, ‘I’ go to work, ‘I’ play with my kids, ‘I’ get angry, ‘I’ think, ‘I’ feel tired, ‘I’ dig the garden, ‘I’ shell peas, and so on; talking & thinking in a language with ‘ego’, we are bamboozled by the linguistic necessity […]
Nothing New Under the Sun As I get older and older I notice that the same old ideas keep on circulating round the world as though they were brand new—never been thought before… A good friend of mine says that the old books contain everything you need. I agree and I have even seriously contemplated […]
Do you, as I do, have rows of old notebooks, going back years and years? I once used the yard of adolescent diaries to make a novel called The Unremembered Joke, thinking I’d be able at last to throw them all away; the joke is that, though writing the novel helped me to deal finally […]
Book-learning often has a bad press. Mere book-learning, they spit out between pursed lips… But it’s worth asking exactly what one does get from books… The short answer might be that it depends what you do with the words you ingest. The longer answer is, perhaps, that it all depends on what is happening to […]
What is the Purpose of ‘The Work’? A good question to ask is—What is the purpose of anything? When the superlative English artist Ben Nicholson was challenged to explain the purpose of his more abstract paintings he said, “When you see a tree in the middle of a field you don’t go asking what its […]
Preamble When I first came across NLP in 1992, I remember being constantly intrigued by the question I kept asking my self, “Why does this all seem so familiar?” Whilst being transfixed by Robert Dilts’ magical dictum, Some questions are so good that it’s a shame to think that one has to give them an […]
I first came across the concept of the Pendulum in Maurice Nicoll’s goldmine of practical insights Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. I here pay tribute to Maurice Nicoll for all the learning I’ve got from him, especially, amongst other things, for his writing about the Pendulum For example, the introduction to […]
In the rush of everyday life we forget ourselves; we forget who we are; on waking in the morning we get into the habitual comfortable position that we adopt towards what we anticipate are going to be the events of the day and promptly fall asleep into them as we identify with all the outstanding […]
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