The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) is an enigmatic figure, the subject of a great deal of interest and speculation, but not easily fitting into any of the common categories of "esoteric," "occult," or "New Age." Scholars have for the most part passed over in silence the contemplative exercises presented in Gurdjieff's writings. Although Gurdjieff had intended them to be confidential, some of the most important exercises were published posthumously in 1950 and in 1975. Arguing that an understanding of these exercises is necessary to fully appreciate Gurdjieff's contribution to modern esotericism, Joseph Azize offers the first complete study of the exercises and their theoretical foundation. It shows the continuity in Gurdjieff's teaching, but also the development and change. His original contribution to Western Esotericism lay in his use of tasks, disciplines, and contemplation-like exercises to bring his pupils to a sense of their own presence which could to some extent be maintained in daily life in the social domain, and not only in the secluded conditions typical of meditation. Azize contends that Gurdjieff had initially intended not to use contemplation-like exercises, as he perceived dangers to be associated with these monastic methods, and the religious tradition to be in tension with the secular and supra-denominational guise in which he first couched his teaching. As Gurdjieff adapted the teaching he had found in Eastern monasteries to Western urban and post-religious culture, however, he found it necessary to introduce contemplation.

Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)

Azize, Joseph

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

----- Table of Contents ----- Foreword, Conference Program, Opening Remarks Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,”
Objective Conscience in Beelzebub and the Impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love ~ Lee van Laer
The Philology of The Tales – Gurdjieff’s Choice of Words in ALL and Everything ~ Robin Bloor
An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of ‘Omnipresent-Active-Element-Okidanokh,’ Part One: The First Peculiarity ~ ToddySmyth
Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,” continued Seminar ~ Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Bogachevsky,” chapter iv
Aiessirittoorassnian-contemplation ~ Joseph Azize
Role of Contradiction in the Work ~ Irv Givot
Gurdjieff on Hypnotism: Superstition, Magic, Religion, Hysteria, Prayer and Hypnosis in Work on Oneself ~ John Amaral
Seminars ~ Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Prologue
Remembering Gurdjieff ~ Stephen Grant
Exploring the Third State of Consciousness, or Conscious Laborand Voluntary Suffering ~ Ocke de Boer
Beelzebub’s Tales and the Grace from Above ~ Will Mesa
How We Block the First and Second Conscious Shocks ~ Russell Schreiber
Seminar ~ Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, “Purgatory,” continued Seminar ~ Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Professor Skridlov,” chapter iv
Gurdjieff, Ashiata and the Zoroastrian Connection ~ John Macpherson
The Aim of Group Work in the Gurdjieff Tradition: Applied Obligolnian Strivings ~ Jan Jarvis
Where do we go from here? Drawings ~ Kimberly Sheridan 
 ----- Foreword ----- Foreword
The Planning Committee would like to take this opportunity of thanking all the Presenters for their help in producing these Proceedings. We hope that this publication will lead to further creative interactions between those in the Work in the future.
The 21st International Humanities Conference — ALL and Everything 2016 convened on Wednesday, April 20th to Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at the Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusetts. The conference was attended by over 100 participants travelling from Argentina, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
From the Conference’s inception, its members have worked toward making this “gathering of the Companions of the Book” to become more and more just that — a gathering of people from all over the world who come together for the purpose of “fathoming the gist” of Gurdjieff‘s writings, of sharing our insights and experiences, our questions, and our efforts to understand and grow into becoming remarkable men and women.
The final session of the conference on Sunday morning, traditionally entitled “Where do we go from here?,” provided an opportunity to discuss the achievements of the conference and the challenges facing its future editions.

The Proceedings of the 21st International Humanities Conference:: ALL and Everything 2016

Self-Help

Bloor, Robin

Grant, Stephen

Amaral, John

van Laer, Lee

Givot, Irv

Conference, A & E

Smyth, Toddy

De Boer, Ocke

Mesa, Will

Spiritual

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This is the first examination of the fragments of the solar theology of the Phoenicians. Beginning from the Emperor Julian's fourth-century statement that in the opinion of the Phoenicians 'the sunlight which is sent forth everywhere is the immaculate action of pure mind itself,' this book contends that there existed an authentic and ancient Phoenician solar theology, similar to that described by Julian, reaching back to the sixth or fifth century BCE. Such a theology is described in Damaskios' quotation from Mochos, the Sidonian philosopher. A passage from Philo of Byblos, preserved in John Lydus, and referring to "the noetic light," strengthens this argument. Phoenician funerary inscriptions are examined, together with relevant artistic evidence and some surviving accounts of Phoenician thought. Altogether, a portrait of Phoenician spiritual thought emerges: a native tradition not dependent upon Hellenic thought, but related to other Semitic cultures of the ancient Near East, and, of course, to Egypt. Many themes and motifs from ancient Phoenician religion are discussed, such as the phoenix bird (the "Phoenician" bird) which was associated with the concept of immortality, and the possibility that there was a Phoenician cult of "Yhwh". The book abstracts seven ideas from the extant material as axial concepts. In light of this analysis, it can be seen that Phoenician religion possessed a unique organizing power, in which the sun, the sun god, life, death, and humanity, were linked in a profound system, which seems to have been common amongst the Phoenician city states.

The Phoenician Solar Theology: An Investigation into the Phoenician Opinion of the Sun Found in Julian's Hymn to King Helios (Gorgias Dissertations)

History

Middle East

Gorgias Pr Llc

An Introduction to the Maronite Faith

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Connor Court Publishing

What is the Maronite Catholic faith? It is a Church which professes the same creed as the Universal Catholic Church. It is an expression of the revelation and sacramental dispensation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, addressed to a people who shared the Aramaic language and culture of the Semitic world into which He Himself was born. If we think of it as a tree, then its seed was planted by the teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as passed on through His apostles. In the person of St Maroun of Syria, that seed put down roots. Then, through his disciples, who journeyed to Lebanon, a sapling shot up from the soil of Lebanon. Finally, a full-grown cedar appeared, tended by St Yuhanna Maroun (a monk from a Syrian monastery named after St Maroun), who was elected Patriarch of Antioch to preserve the Christian faith. -- From the Introduction

Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd

John G. Bennett: Witness to Death and Resurrection

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Red Elixir

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