To quick schedule of presentations The 25th International Humanities Conference: Thursday 14th May to Sunday 17th May, 2020 This year, the A&E Conference cannot take place as previously announced, due to measures needed to prevent the spreading of the Corona virus. Instead the conference is now taking place online, using a streaming technology that is very […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give a first hand account of how I came to see Meetings with Remarkable Men as an allegorical work rather than an autobiography. I will first discuss my initial readings, the questions provoked, and how that led me to see a structure in […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract Over the twenty-seven years that have passed since I began my neurology residency in New York, I have read numerous articles and texts, listened to lectures by a multitude of professors and other experts, reviewed countless MRI and CT studies of the brain and nervous system and, in […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract “For an exact study, an exact language is needed.” These words, spoken by Gurdjieff, display one of his fundamental ideas regarding self-observation. Throughout several iterations of teaching style, Gurdjieff consistently emphasized the importance of his “universal language”. In the Tales, Gurdjieff cites this language as one of two […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract The fact that “the first and last genuinely learned beings of the Earth, the members of the society then called Akhaldan” had Makary Kronbernkzion’s Boolmarshano placed at the centre of their main Cathedral draws strong significance. This paper explores the journey of the Boolmarshano from ancient Samlios in […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract In “Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises,” I suggest that Gurdjieff brought not merely a philosophy, a system of “Western esotericism,” or an “Esoteric philosophy,” but rather a mystic discipline. There, I explain my view that, by 1930, Gurdjieff had concluded that something was missing in his teaching and […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract “I am Gurdjieff: I not will die” But, of course, he did. What could he have meant by this extraordinary declaration? Everyone dies; the physical body goes into the ground (or the crematorium) and it doesn’t come out again. In the chapter entitled ‘Religion’, Gurdjieff makes this very […]

Back to Schedule of Presentations, 2020 Abstract The ‘essence’ of this ‘essay’ concerns the attempt to look at how we, ourselves, are approaching Gurdjieff’s writings and teachings. What are we bringing to them, of ourselves, when we engage with these ideas and practices? What are we actually ‘doing’ when we study, ponder, and practice the […]