Core concepts from this influential mystic on awakening from sleep into conscious evolution.
"When you begin to unknow what you were sure you knew, you are undergoing a change of mental outlook, you are undergoing a change of mind, you are undergoing metanoia." Maurice Nicoll Definition of Metanoia "Meta indicates transference, or transformation, or...
“The idea of reciprocal feeding is very central in the work of Jesus. And this wonderful mirror that Gurdjieff gave us really allows us to go back and look at the teaching of the head of our own particular wisdom stream to hear it with a fundamentally different...
"Identifying is the greatest enemy that we have to overcome. It is through being always identified that we are kept asleep.” G Gurdjieff quoted by Maurice Nicol The Nature of Identification "Inebriated, as the Gospel of Thomas says. What are we inebriated on? The...
Maurice Nicoll outlines the internal and external relationships of Sun-Earth-Man in Gurdjieff’s cosmological map of reality, the Ray of Creation: The Sun in the Cosmic Order "Different levels in the external Universe are representations of different levels of...
The Gurdjieff idea of Making Moon is an illustration of being steadfast. “Making Moon in myself is really about making sure that consciousness is not left unattended.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Rebuilding Trust WS 3.2 Crucible of Struggle 02:25 “To behave as you always...
What is the Soul in the Teachings of Geoges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and the Gospel of Thomas? I’ve become comfortable with Essence and Personality as the twin pillars of internal and external in the philosophy of Gurdjieff, but not so clear with where and how the Soul...