Lee van Laer: Intentional Suffering in Beelzebub’s Tales and Meister Eckhart’s Book of Divine Consolation An investigation of the question of intentional suffering from Gurdjieff’s point of view; Meister Eckhart’s perspectives on suffering from the Book of Divine Consolation; a comparative discourse on the two sources, with a further examination of Buddhist and Islamic concepts, […]
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Abstracts 2013
Seminars 2013 Hugh Hubbard Title of Paper: Just How Preposterous is Gurdjieff’s View of History? A Chronology of Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet Earth ‘Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson’ (BT) contains an apparently historical description of the collective psyche of ‘man’. The descents of Beelzebub occur after developments in the psyche of ‘men’ as a result […]
Abstracts 2005
Gurdjieff and Astrology , by Agnes Hidveghyassisted by Reijo Oksanen Gurdjieff and the Study of Dreams , by Seymour B. (Sy) Ginsburg Kundalini, Kundabuffer, by Dimitri Peretzi Our Three Bodies, by John Amaral The Second Conscious Shock: From Ouspensky to the Tales , by Ian C MacFarlane Gurdjieff and Astrology by Agnes Hidveghy assisted by […]
Abstracts 2006
Objective Science , by Dimitri Peretzi Singing in Purgatory: The Harmony of Hope , by Elaine Jacobs Our Relationship to our Animal Bodies: A Simile in the Context of Metanoia , by Svend Louland Our Civilisation Desperately Needs The Message of Ashiata Shiemash , by Professor M. Thring Laughter as Demolition and Reconstruction in Beelzebub’s […]
Abstracts 2007
Beelzebub’s Buddhas– Rev. José M. Tirado Micro, Macro, and Mr. Gurdjieff– Elaine M. Jacobs The Resounding Enneagram:the Seven Note Musical Scale as a Model of the Universe – Dr. Judith Crispin Soul-Making in Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson– Dr. Michael Pittman This Original Problem I Have Set You: Purgatory–Salzmanino–Deskaldino– Toddy Smyth The Self and the […]
Abstracts 2008
Second Body Obstetrics–Sven Louland The Awakening of Objective Conscience and the Attainment of Objective Reason–Will Mesa The Manifestations, Requirements and Potentials in Today’s World Through the Work of Gurdjieff– Bonnie Phillips Immaturity– Bill Murphey An Analysis of the Parallel Systems of Neologisms in Beelzebub’s Tales– by Ian MacFarlane Beelzebub in a Ring– Anthony Blake ABSTRACT […]
Abstracts 2009
1– Stephen Aronson:Preparation for the Third Line of Work: Threading the Needle Between Wiseacring and the Law of Hazard 2– John Amaral:Gurdjieff Exercises and The Three Brains 3– George Bennett: Being-Partkdolg-duty, Conscious Labor and Intentional Suffering 4– Keith Buzzell:Do-Re-Mi Of Food, Air And Impressions 5– James George:What Does Great Nature Now Require Of Us? 6– […]
Abstracts 2010
Seminars 2010 Stephen Aronson Abstract for A&E 2010 Title of Paper: Egoism and Compassion: A Higher Perspective In Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, Gurdjieff describes egoism as “abnormal and unbecoming to the essence of any three-brained being whatsoever” [p 107] and states “this said Unique-property egoism usurped the place of the Unique-All-Autocratic-Ruler in their general […]
Abstracts 2011
Seminars 2011 John Amaral Title of Paper: Some Explorations of I Am, I Wish, I Can In the daily self-re-membering exercise “I am, I wish, I can,” specific expressions are evoked. What are the meanings of these expressions? For example, if “I am” is an expression evocative of potential “Will-Being”, what does this mean for […]
Abstracts 2012
Seminars 2012 John Amaral Title of Paper: Gurdjieff and Steve Jobs George Ivanovich Gurdjieff’s whim “to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world” includes the striving to understand and reconcile Okidanokh, known to us variously as The Great Ray of Creation’, ‘The Emanation from the Sun […]