Roberta Chromey 
Gurdjieff’s magnum opus, All and Everything, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, is not about THAT Beelzebub or maybe it is. He is a fallen angel, after all. In any event, Gurdjieff loved to “bury the dog deeper.” So he created an allegory in long convoluted sentences with words that were concocted from languages that were foreign … Read more
Who is J.G. Bennett, G.I. Gurdjieff, and what is Claymont? These names have loomed large my entire adult life. For most people they have not. So here goes: G.I. Gurdjieff was a Greek-Armenian mystic who brought the “wisdom of the East” to the West. Basically, he spent his youth searching for the answers to questions. … Read more
G.I. Gurdjieff refers to both small and large accumulators in people. P.D. Ouspensky mapped these out in a three-tiered box representing our three centers—thinking, feeling and moving/instinctive. According to Gurdjieff, each center has two small energy accumulators which connect with the body’s large accumulator. The accumulators store energy to fuel the functioning of our ordinary … Read more
When J.G. Bennett said fifty years ago, “we will see the visible loss of trust in institutions” and that, “It will become evident a new social system will have to come.” He was talking then about the future that we are living now. He told us that the change that was needed, that was coming, … Read more