Essential teachings from Maurice Nicoll, whose wartime talks in England became the Wisdom classic, Psychological Commentaries of Gurdjieff.
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 up...
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,...
Maurice Nicoll: Goodness is of Being, and Knowledge is of Mind In the first volume of his Commentaries, Maurice Nicoll discusses the two sides of a person’s development—knowledge and being—and how these two must go hand in hand, resulting in understanding. (p93)...
A short musing on Truth and Good in the context of inner evolution. I woke up with the remnants of a dreamlike sequence in my mind, which said: there is no fruit of the spirit called honesty or truth. Hmm, why not? Is honesty of this realm only? This was a bit of...