Living from Good
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...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
My personal exploration of Wisdom spirituality. There is a sense that life is like a Parable or a Gospel of Thomas Logion or Desert Saying—these ancient forms that were meant to deliver Wisdom through different levels of meaning and truth. There is the lower level of...