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Undiscovered
CountryKH-100-H-U, Kathryn Hulme A classic account of a group of women … who put their careers
on hold to study privately with the spiritual teacher G. I.
Gurdjieff. Known as 'the Rope,' this group included three
writer/editors, a wealthy San Francisco milliner, a legendary French
soprano, an actress/theatrical manager, and a prim British spinster.
Hulme's lively account of their relationship with each other and to
the unconventional guide who led them into an 'undiscovered country'
of self-observation has long been considered one of the finest
documents ever published about the enigmatic and elusive individual
who was Gurdjieff." —from the Cover $35.00 Used.
(out of print)
The Nun's Story
KH-101-SKathryn Hulme
Within each one of us is a desire to transcend ourselves and truly
give our life to a higher purpose. Very few try even attempt to make
that desire a reality. Kathryn Hulme shows us -- realistically --
the life of a woman who travels that narrow road and the
difficulties and triumphs along the way. $25.00 Used.
(out of print)
Heart
Without Measure
RR-100-H
Ravindra,
Ravi (based on Madame deSalzman's direct teachings) 5 3/4x8 3/4 - Hardcover - 218p.
Heart without Measure, a collection of excerpts from the
journals of Ravi Ravindra, gives a glimpse of the
extraordinary teaching of Madame de Salzmann. Although
Madam deSalzman didn't write the book herself, her words
and teachings are predominant throughout. Jeanne de
Salzmann was Gurdjieff's closest associate for many
decades and she became the spiritual head of the Work
after his death in 1949. She carried out this
responsibility with remarkable energy and creativity
until she died in 1990 at the age of 101.
A student of the Gurdjieff teaching for many years,
Ravindra worked directly with Madame de Salzmann during
the last decade of her life. His account of his
meetings, correspondence and encounters with Madame de
Salzmann is deeply intimate, yet it is not merely
personal. His questions, doubts and insights are not
unlike our own. In these recollections of a pupil, we
hear Madame de Salzmann’s voice; the clarity of her
perception and the force of her insight are evident
throughout. $45.00
Jane
Heap Notes
JH-100-H Heap, Jane $22.00 6 1/2x8 1/4 -
Hardcover with dust jacket - 95p. Jane Heap entered the Work in 1924
and by 1927 had been asked by Gurdjieff to lead a group in
Montmartre. With Orage, she helped edit the English edition of
Beezlebub’s Tales to his Grandson. In 1935 Gurdjieff sent her to
England to lead groups, which she did until her death in 1964. A. L.
Staveley, a pupil of hers for 20 years, said, “She was an artist in
words as well as materials of all kinds. The precision with which an
idea was presented, the fact that it appeared as a picture rather
than as verbal thought, was a little shock and entered a pupil as an
unforgettable impression.” After her death, her extensive notes were
collected and a selection of these was published as The Notes of
Jane Heap. This is a second selection.
The
Notes of Jane Heap
JH-101-H Heap, Jane $20.00 5 3/4x8 1/4 -
Hardcover with dust jacket and ribbon marker - 158p. A selection
from the notes made by Jane Heap for talks to her groups on the
practice of the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff. These notes were for
Jane’s own use. She left no instructions for their future. Her
students, under the leadership of Michael Courrer-Briggs, assembled
them and have now made this short selection. The punctuation and
layout keep as close as possible to her original.
Aim
and Wish
ALS-100-S Staveley,
A. L. $7.00 5 1/8x7 - Hand-Tied Booklet - 7p. Gurdjieff often spoke
of the need for a person to have an “aim” and of the importance of
“wish”. In this small volume, long-time student A. L. Staveley
examines the meaning of these terms and their relationship.
Memories
of Gurdjieff
ALS-101-H Staveley, A. L. $16.00 5 3/4x8
- Hardcover with dust jacket - 74p. A pupil of Jane Heap in London
from 1939-1959, Annie Lou Staveley met Gurdjieff after the Second
World War. She gives a vivid first-hand portrait of Gurdjieff and
the way in which he taught in these closing years. “If you were
brave enough,” she writes, “desperate enough, alert enough—or even,
on occasion, surprised enough—you might see a reflection of what he
saw at that moment for yourself; that is, the human condition as it
appeared in one atom of humanity—yourself.”
Themes
I
ALS-102-H Staveley, A. L. $20.00 6x9 -
Hardcover with dust jacket and marker ribbon - 99p. How to focus
attention in practical ways during everyday life is explored in
three volumes by A. L. Staveley at her work groups. A pupil of Jane
Heap’s in London during the Second World War, Mrs. Staveley also met
G. I. Gurdjieff afterward and attended his meetings and dinners.
These themes are, you could say, practical within their context, and
are meant to be worked on - not just read and discussed. These
themes were given to a group of people who had been studying the
“Work” ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff and therefore had at least a
rudimentary concept of these ideas. They are designed for those who
are more interested in learning how to “do” the Gurdjieff work that
in talk about ideas, philosophy, or theory.Themes in this volume
include Awareness, Participation, Work on Attitudes, Objections,
Beauty, Holding One Idea, Urgency, Air as Food, and many more.
Themes
II
ALS-103-H Staveley,
A. L. $20.00 6x9 - Hardcover with dust jacket and marker ribbon -
112p. See “Themes I”Themes in this volume include Balance, Fire,
Enemies, Sleep, Violence, Reality, Selfishness, What is Work?, and
many more.
Themes
IIIALS-104-H Staveley, A. L. $20.00 6x9 - Hardcover
with dust jacket and marker ribbon - 175p. See “Themes I”.Themes in
this volume include Sincerity, Learning, Maintenance, Temper, Me,
Disease of Tomorrow, Self-Observation, Aims, Self-Change,
Priorities, and many more.
Where’s
Bernardino?
ALS-105-H Staveley, A. L. $10.00 Hardcover with dust jacket - 88p. This book does not ask, bumper
sticker fashion, where is your child now? - but *what* is your
child? *Who* is your child? “Where is Bernardino” is the story of
children in a preschool. It is a book of great drama, the drama of
the total engagement in the here and now that characterizes the life
of the child. All of it preserved by a teacher who guides without
interfering, observes without intruding, and values because she sees
with such clarity the ingredients that go into the making of each
little life, an
d how those ingredients must be understood and
cherished and channeled if each of the children is to grow in a way
that is right for him or her. Books about school, children and
education in combination are rarely fun to read, and are just as
rarely edifying. That this book is both insures that it will be a
hallmark for years to come.
The
Work Life
BP-110-S about
applying what you know to your daily
activities, rather than simply theorizing
about abstract ideas of life. The author
lived "the work life" and studied with
Maurice Nicoll for almost two decades,
beginning to teach a group at his request in
1955. The group had residential meetings at
Dorton House, and it was there that people
had a chance to experiment with what they
learned. A level of community developed:
group projects included painting a mural,
building a summer house, and making a glass
mosaic of the zodiac - all activities
designed to bring out various talents in the
group. It was a great opportunity for
learning! This record of "the Work" has been
pubished to help modern students understand
how the teachings of Gurdjieff, Nicoll, and
Ouspensky can be actualized. 5 1/4x8 1/4 -
12.95 Paperback - 276p.
Commentary
on the Fourth Gospel
BP-100-S Pogson, Beryl
$24.00, Sale
prince $16.95 5 3/4x8 1/4 - Paperback - 72p.
According to the Johannine tradition referred to by Clement of
Alexandria, it was believed that “Christ imparted the truth to James
the Just, to John and Peter, after His resurrection”. These three
disciples were said to share the threefold task of continuing His
work - it was said that James the Just as Bishop of Jerusalem,
carried on traditional Christianity, Peter was the organiser and
ruled the Church, and John was said to have understood and preserved
the spirit of the teaching. They formed the Triad, which springs
from and is closest to the One. There was a similar Triad in the
Hermetic tradition in which three disciples of Hermes Trismegistus,
Asclepius, Ammon and Tat, represented knowledge, power and love. The
Johannine tradition also says that the secret spiritual teaching
received by John from Christ was handed down orally and survives to
this day. Hints of this teaching are found in the Fourth Gospel, the
First Epistle of St. John and in a cypher in the Revelation of St.
John.
In
the East My Pleasure Lies
BP-101-S An Esoteric
Interpretation of Some Plays of Shakespeare Pogson, Beryl $24.50 5
3/4x8 - Paperbaack - 146p. In this age of mass entertainment many
people look to the theatre as a means of self-forgetfulness. Yet
tradition tell us that the Drama was originally conceived to
re-awaken in Man the memory of the purpose for which he was created.
It revealed to him in allegory his relationship with the gods and
sought to arouse him from the sleep of the senses, so that he might
set forth on the journey towards his divine destiny.In this book,
Beryl Pogson shows that Shakespeare wrote in the true tradition of
drama, using his art consciously with the aim of freeing Man from
the illusions that hypnotize and distract him, so that he might have
a clearer vision of the path of self- development to which all the
great Religions direct him.
More
Work Talks
On Request, 3 wk delivery
BP-104-S Pogson, Beryl $25.00 5 3/4x8 1/2 -
Paperback - 142p. These records of Meetings form a fragment of the
Teaching Beryl Pogson gave during the last year of her life.
Diary
of Madame Egout Pour Sweet
RH-100-H Hands, Rina $16.95 5
3/4x8 1/4 - Hardcover with dust jacket - 88p. The word “egout” is
the French word for sewer or drain and refers to the honorary title
conferred upon Rina Hands by Mr. Gurdjieff during her stay with him
in Paris. This was during the last few months of his life from
August, 1948 to October, 1949. It was one of several such titles
which Mr. Gurdjieff used during those extraordinary meals at his
apartment. With these titles and the help of a liberal supply of
alcohol, he was able to get beyond the facade of those present,
expose what was behind the mask, or illustrate some particular
aspect of his ideas. In this book, references are made to
Gurdjieff’s “Science of the Idiots” toasts and a floorplan of his
apartment is included. The diary was written primarily for herself,
for she was certain event hen of th eimportantce of those days. It
is only now that we have the privilege of looking in on a short
chapter of one person’s life. Her diary ends with Mr. Gurdjieff’s
death in 1949.
Practical
Work Tasks
BP-105-S Pogson, Beryl $20.00 5 3/4x 8 1/4 -
Paperback - 88p. These practical tasks are selected from some of
Beryl Pogson’s meetings between 1960 and 1966. Although they were
given by her at the time when she was teaching, it is hoped they
will be of value for a basis of personal work in the present. These
Tasks were usually set for a week between meetings.
Royalty
of Nature
BP-106-S a Commentary on Shakespeare’s History
Plays Pogson, Beryl $31.00 5 3/4x8 - Paperback - 126p. The inner
meanings of Shakespeare’s seven history plays, Richard II, Henry IV
parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, Henry VIII.
Work Talks at Brighton
(By Request) 4 wks. Delivery
BP-107-S Pogson, Beryl $95.00 5 3/4x8 1/2 - Paperback - 96p.
Privately published in 1967 and reprinted in 1993. Includes a
selection of Work themes Pogson discussed with her students. Topics
include balance, essence, acceptance, faith, scale and mechanical
versus real suffering. These Work talks reveal Pogson’s clarity of
thought along with her intuitive richness and warmth of approach.
Work
Talks at the Dicker
BP-108-S Pogson, Beryl $57.50 5 3/4x8
1/2 - Paperback - 184p. First published privately in 1967 and
revised and republished in 1993. Beryl Pogson’s talks cover
references to Christ’s teaching. Other areas of emphasis include
detailed discussion of the various centres of gravity; talks on aim,
chief feature, truth, thinking, self-love, scale, patience, negative
emotions, imagination, essence, energy and third force.
BH-101-S Hunter, Bob $45.00 5 3/4x8 1/4 - Paperback -
90p. When a man is renowned as a teacher in a particular field, his
presence tends to eclipse that of his spouse in the eyes of his
followers. Although the events surrounding and even the thoughts
expressed by Maurice Nicoll are recorded in print, little is
generally known about his wife, Catherine. It is apparent from the
way she lived her life that this is exactly as she would have
preferred. Although she was careful to stay in the background,
however, her career and her attitude to life were equally
extraordinary.
A
Pupil’s Postscript
BH-100-S Beryl Pogson Teaching the
Fourth Way Hunter, Bob $35.00 5 3/4x8 1/4 - Paperback - 507p. In
this book, Bob Hunter, who had been reading the ideas based on the
Teaching of G.I.Gurdjieff, P.D.Ouspensky and Maurice Nicoll, as a
young man in his native Australia, describes his encounter with
working groups in England. He takes the reader through his
discoveries under the inspired leadership of Beryl Pogson in the
1960’s and 1970’s, explaining how the ideas he had studied before
were brought to life by the experience of working at The Dicker in
Sussex, the home of Beryl Pogson’s group. Bob also was the person
who kept the notes at the meetings and so much of this book is
concerned with the teaching given rather than subjective personal
experience.
Diary
of Madame Egout Pour Sweet
