Category Archives: Philosophy & Psychology
Taking Leave of Some Teachers
Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Others The last name of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a household word in my father’s family, along with that of Gurdjieff’s major disciple, Peter Demianovich Ouspensky. I remember hearing these two strange sounding names from the mid-1940s … Continue reading
”…and let us take upon’s the mystery of things…”
A passage from Shakespeare’s King Lear provides the source for the title of A. C. Grayling’s book of essays, The Mystery of Things. No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i’ … Continue reading
