The 'Cosmic War'
& Gurdjieff
Part I
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What is the deep meaning of 9/11 and how will it affect the Work? The first of a three-part inquiry
into Fundamentalism (Islamic, Christian and Judaic), the secular world and scientific materialism.
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Gurdjieff's Cheek
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How is it that Gurdjieff speaks so little about his father's murder,
his family arriving in Essentuki "looking like skeletons" the Turkish
massacre of Armenians?
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Armenia:
Theater of Perpetual War
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An in-depth look at an ancient people and culture that has suffered repeated massacres,
as well as the two Turkish genocides, but continues to endure.
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The Stray Dog
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The legendary St. Petersburg cellar cafe, home to the city's intelligentsia, artists and writers,
and Ouspensky's favorite, closed by authorities in 1915, has just reopened.
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Book Review:
Journeys in
Islamic Countries
by J.G. Bennett
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In September 1953 J.G. Bennett took an eleven-week journey through
Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Armenia. His views of Islam, Sufism,
the uelema are prescient and, given recent events, need reconsideration.
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Film Review:
The Endurance
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A documentary of Ernest Shackleton's extraordinary 1914–16 Antarctic Expedition shows the makings
of Gurdjieff's man number five.
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Film Review:
Genghis Blues
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Paul Pena, blind San Francisco blues musician, travels to Tuva, lying
on the border of the USSR and Mongolia, to take part in a throat singing
contest. Pena wins in the kargyraa division, a technique used in the chants
of Tibetan monks, and portrayed in the opening scenes of the film Meetings
with Remarkable Men.
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Online Exchange:
Ouspensky &
The Big Creatures
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A passage from Ouspensky's Letters From Russia 1919 concerning
the relationship between Nations and States, "big creatures," Ouspensky
calls them, and individuals is explored in an online exchange.
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