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Music in the Gurdjieff Work
Music is an essential part of Gurdjieff’s Work practice which has three core components or focusses: the body (related to the Sacred Dances or Movements); the mind (expressed through the Work Ideas to be found in such core texts as All and Everything, and P.D. Ouspenkys’s In Search of the Miraculous); and the feelings, related…
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Movements
The Gurdjieff Society of Newport presently has a regular Movements group in Sydney. It is planning to expand that group and, if possible, to commence one on the Central Coast. All classes are in person. The Sacred Dances, or “Movements” My late friend, Michael Smyth, a long-term pupil of Mrs Staveley, wrote: The Gurdjieff Movements…
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Suggested Reading
The Fundamentals The single best introduction to Gurdjieff’s ideas and methods is P.D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, which he had undertaken to Gurdjieff he would write to help spread knowledge of Gurdjieff’s teaching. In 1949, Gurdjieff’s last year on earth, when a pupil was leaving and intending to start a group, he told…
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Reading Group
Commencing Thursday 5 September, the Gurdjieff Society of Newport will be holding fortnightly ideas meetings on Zoom. After a short contemplative preparation, there will be a reading from All and Everything, followed by a reading of and exchange on thematic material, selected chiefly from Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (e.g. on the Fourth Way, Self-Remembering, Essence and Personality). Each…
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Joining a GSN Work Group
G.I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) brought an organic system of ideas and methods of practical spirituality. This organic body gives the best and most reliable results when all and only his authentic methods are used. The Gurdjieff Society of Newport, founded by George and Helen Adie, is dedicated to passing on those ideas and methods in their…
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Welcome!
Welcome to the Gurdjieff Society of Newport website! The aim and purpose of the society is the practical study, application, and development of the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, with a special respect for the exercises, practices, and disciplines taught by G.M. Adie and H.C. Adie, including the ideas as developed by G.M. Adie, and the…