#28 Volume 7 Issue 4
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The Gurdjieff Journal™ |
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#28 Volume 7 Issue 4 |
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The 'Cosmic War' & Gurdjieff Part I |
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. |
| Gurdjieff's Cheek | 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 |
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. |
| The Stray Dog | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
| Kultur |
Tidbits gleaned from the world and the Work.
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