Open-mindedness You have no business to believe me. I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself… If you have not a critical mind, your visit here is useless. GIGurdjieff In the beginning it feels like we cannot but choose to believe certain things: that food will appear from somewhere, bottle or […]
Re-reading BTTHG again… Reading matter that’s not for the sqeamish or for anybody just setting out to discover what the Gurdjieff canon is all about. §1 Many moons ago, when I taught Eng Lit, in order to encourage students to be bold, I used to preface any course by referring to Sartre (1947) who is […]
(For Sarah—for mentioning Montaigne during an Enneagram workshop) For some strange reason, ‘Christmas’ offers many people an opportunity for a peculiar kind of celebration which seems to entail spending vast amounts of money. Over ‘Christmas’ 2011 I decided I’d celebrate in a peculiar manner by re-reading the selected essays of Michel de Montaigne. I first […]
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