by William Britten | Maurice Nicoll, Gospel of Thomas |
Purifying the Emotional Center of Negativity is one path to self transformation. “It is in my thoughts and my feelings in which begins a possibility of ascent and descent. I must work to connect the idea of purification with this.” Annie Lou Staveley, The Plan is...
by William Britten | Being, Maurice Nicoll |
Conscious labor in the Teachings makes conscious levels of relationship possible. Maurice Nicoll offers a short talk on relationship. “Relationship depends on Attitude: attitude towards oneself, towards life, including other people, and attitude towards the universe.”...
by William Britten | Gurdjieff Enneagram, Being, Maurice Nicoll |
Can cooking a potato illustrate personal transformation? Read on … In this brief talk, Maurice Nicoll outlines a crucial meaning of the Enneagram. It depicts the process by which the higher transforms the lower. The outer points of the Enneagram depict movement...
by William Britten | Essence, Gospel of Thomas |
A key to inner transformation is work on Essence and Personality. I had dreams last night, “Groundhog Day” dreams of recurring events and the sense that so much of life in this realm is about keeping the flow of time intact and predictable. Our global socio-economic...
by William Britten | Law of Seven, Gospel of Thomas, Maurice Nicoll, Parables |
The idea of octaves weaves through the Gurdjieff teachings. This relates to one of the primary ideas of the work: the Law of Seven, or Law of Octaves, or the Law of Order of Manifestation. The Law of Seven describes the process of development through seven stages,...
