Jeffrey Werbock, a performer of the Azerbaijani music known as mugham, looks into the method of transmitting ancient music from generation to generation. “Ancient eastern sacred music embodies a legacy of knowledge which can put us in touch with a current of energy that originated during an epoch when the transmission of wisdom was passed on exclusively in the oral tradition, with no coded symbols to intervene and insulate the listeners from the intent of the masters: transcendence.”
Jack Cain, a long time follower of the Gurdjieff teaching and a certified consulting hypnotist, explores the subject of our subconsciousness and its relationship to our work. “We are not accustomed to think of the work as belonging to the realm of the subconscious... Within the first 25 pages of his 1,200-page opus, Gurdjieff informs us that he will be speaking to both our consciousnesses. In his inimitable, provocative way, he says that our pure waking consciousness is fictitious and that our other consciousness which we call the subconscious is our real human consciousness.”
“After more than a half century since its conception, the very first Index to All and Everything: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is at last emerging from obscurity and making its well-deserved entrée into the literature relating to the Gurdjieff Work... Few people know about the first Index. Begun over 50 years ago, and published in mimeographed format, it was developed by Willem Nyland and his groups. For those who have had access to it, it has proven to be an invaluable help for studying Gurdjieff’s teaching.”
Henri Thomasson's first contact with the Work occurred in Paris in 1947, where he participated in a small group led by Mme Henriette Lannes, who later introduced him to Mme de Salzmann and Gurdjieff. He went on to start new groups in Italy.
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