Gurdjieff on Hypnosis

Hypnotic Trance The following is a record of a lecture on hypnosis given by Gurdjieff in Tiflis “In Europe, hypnotism is much spoken about and much used in medical treatment. However the knowledge of it is very superficial which explains the frequently...

Like This

Like This, Like This. Like This If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wanting will look,lift your face and say,“Like this.” When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky,climb up on the roofand dance and say,“Like this.” If anyone...

Issue #18

Subscribe Issue #18 December 2022 “People’s whole lives often consist in paying off the promissory notes of small accidental I’s.” ~Gurdjieff Gurdjieff’s Birthday? The passport above gives his Gurdjieff’s birth date as the 28th December 1877...

Issue #17

Subscribe Issue #17 November 2022 “All creation, all forms of art, were originally instruments of knowledge.” ~Gurdjieff Accident, Karma, Fate, Will False personality, the false idea of oneself that we gradually assemble as we grow, falls under the law of accident....

SuperEfforts

The Effort of Effort In In Search of the Miraculous Gurdjieff is quoted as saying “Ordinary efforts do not count. Only super- efforts count.” He then explains … “A very important role in the human machine is played by a certain kind of...