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Psychological
Commentaries
on the Teaching of
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
Maurice Nicoll
Volume 5
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CONTENTS
Great Amwell House, 1951
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20.10.51 The Reception of New Ideas about Oneself and the
World .............................................................
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27.10.51 Brief Note on Work on Oneself ... ... ...
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3.11.51 Outer and Inner Stop ... ... ... ...
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10.11.51 Increasing Consciousness of Oneself ... ...
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17.11.51 Further Note on Increasing Consciousness of Oneself
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24.11.51 What is Consciousness? ... ... ... ...
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1.12.51 The Idea of Balanced Man (1) ...........................
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8.12.51 The Idea of Balanced Man (2) The Feeling of Oneself
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15.12.51 Further Commentary on Consciousness and a Pre-
liminary Consideration of the Meaning of the Soul
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25.12.51 Note on Temptation....................................................
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5. 1.52 On Sounding Re (Note on Starting to Work) ... 1536
12. 1.52 Magnetic Centre ... ... ... ... ... 1538
18. 1.52 Transformation of Meaning (I) ... ... ... 1540
26. 1.52 Crystallized Thinking ... ... ... ... 1542
2. 2.52 Transformation of Meaning (II) ... ... ... 1544
9. 2.52 Transformation of Meaning (III) ... ... ... 1546
16. 2.52 Man with One Suit ...................................................... 1549
23. 2.52 Note on Certain 'I's ... ... ... ... ... 1552
1. 3.52 The Work and the Wrong Love ... ... ... 1554
6. 3.52 Associations and Negative 'I's ... ... ... 1556
15. 3.52 Mi 12 ............................. .................................. 1559
22. 3.52 On Having No Middle ... ... ... ... 1561
29. 3.52 First Conscious Shock: Self-Remembering and the
Sensual Mind ... ... ... ... ... 1563
3. 4.52 An Exercise in Thinking about the Pendulum ... 1565
10. 4.52 The Connection of Essence with Esotericism ... 1568
19. 4.52 Shoes in the Work (I) ... ... ... ... 1570
26. 4.52 Shoes in the Work (II) (Mud in the Eye) ... ... 1572
3. 5.52 Psychological Thinking and the Kingdom of Heaven 1575
10. 5.52 Psychological Space ... ... ... ... ... 1577
17. 5.52 Self-Glory .............................................................
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24. 5.52 The Middle Laboratory ... ... ...
... 1582
31. 5.52 Internal Accounts and Forgiving ... ...
... 1585
7. 6.52 Revenge and Cancelling ... ... ...
... 1587
14. 6.52 Belief in the Work ... ... ... ...
... 1590
28. 6.52 False Personality and Happiness ... ...
... 1592
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5. 7.52 What is a New Will? ............... ........................... 1594
12. 7.52 Definite, Topical and Concrete Self-Observation ... 1597
19. 7.52 The Work as a Special Form of Photography ... 1599
26. 7.52 Self-Love ... ... ... ... ... ... 1602
31. 7.52 Self-Love and the Universe ... ... ... ... 1605
9. 8.52 Self-Love and the Inner Man ... ... ... 1608
16. 8.52 A Review of Essence and Personality ............... 1611
23. 8.52 Essence and the Return Journey .......................... 1614
30. 8.52 The Antagonism between the Self-Love and the Work 1618
20. 9.52 A Note on the Meaning of Faith ... ... ... 1622
27. 9.52 How Wrong Attitudes punish us ........................... 1626
4.10.52 Understanding the Work ... .......................... 1629
11.10.52 Conjunction with the Work ........................................ 1631
18.10.52 Consciousness and Love ... ... ... ... 1634
25.10.52 The Work and the Love of Self ........................... 1637
1.11.52 The Work as Third Force ... ............................ 1639
8.11.52 Note on Triads ... ... ... ... ... 1642
15.11.52 Self-Remembering and the Work Triad ... ... 1645
22.11.52 The Necessity of Metanoia for Reversal ............... 1649
6.12.52 Right Attitude to Life ....................................... 1650
13.12.52 On Placing the Feeling of I........................................ 1652
20.12.52
On Doing the Work ... ... ... ... ... 1653
25.12.52
Continuation on Feeling of I ... ... ... 1655
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3. 1.53 On Changing Essence ... ...
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... 1657
10. 1.53 Work on Essence ... ... ...
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... 1659
17. 1.53 Aim and Imaginary 'I' ... ...
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... 1662
24. 1.53 On making Personality passive (I) ...
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... 1663
31. 1.53 On making Personality passive (II) ...
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... 1666
7. 2.53 On making Personality passive (III)
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... 1668
14. 2.53 Self-Observation and Relationship
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... 1670
21. 2.53 Outer and Inner ... ... ...
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... 1672
28. 2.53 Negative Emotions ... ... ...
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... 1674
7. 3.53 Thinking from the Work about Life and Forming
Work Attitudes ...................................................
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14. 3.53 Commentary on End, Cause and Effect
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... 1679
21. 3.53 Commentary on Doing the Work ...
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... 1682
28. 3.53 The Secretary and the Three Bosses
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... 1685
4. 4.53 Observation of Moods ... ...
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... 1689
11. 4.53 Notes on Lower and Higher Centres
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(On Balancing a Centre)
18. 4.53 Some Reflections on Self-Observation
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... 1693
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25. 4.53 The Middle Divisions of Centres ... ... ...
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2. 5.53 The Conjunction of the Outer and Inner Divisions
of Centres.............................................................. 1700
9. 5.53 The Opening of the Inner Division of a Centre ... 1703
16. 5.53 Applying the Work to yourself ... ... ... 1706
23. 5.53 The Prison of Negative Emotions ... ... ... 1709
30. 5.53 The Neutralizing Force of the Work ................ 1711
6. 6.53 Objective Consciousness ....................................... 1714
13. 6.53 Memory of the Work and Work-Memory ... ... 1716
20. 6.53 The Development of Understanding ... ... 1719
27. 6.53 The Crowd of 'I's in your Being ... ... ... 1721
4. 7.53 Incomplete and Unintelligent Self-Observation ... 1724
11. 7.53 Brief Repetition of Recent Talks ... ... ... 1726
18. 7.53 The Shadow in one's Being ......................... 1727
25. 7.53 Reflections on Psycho-Transformism ... ... 1730
1. 8.53 Psycho-Transformism and Self-Observation ... 1732
8. 8.53 Growth of Essence ... ... ... ... ... 1734
16. 8.53 Observation of Attitude to the Work ... ... 1737
20. 8.53 Unfinished Paper ................................................... 1739
APPENDIX
Birdlip, 26.4.41. Note on How to Work on Oneself ... ...
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Birdlip, 18.1.43. Commentary on the Meaning of the Ark ...
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Birdlip, March 1944. Unknowing ... ... ... ...
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Birdlip, April 1945- The Work and External Circumstances
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Great Amwell House, Autumn 1950. "In my Father's House are
Many Mansions"................................................................ 1762
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Amwell, 20.10.51
THE RECEPTION OF NEW IDEAS
ABOUT ONESELF AND THE WORLD
Why is it that people find new ideas so difficult to receive? The
mind closes early on a few conventional ideas. The mind was once
likened to a bird-cage, and ideas to birds. Some quite beautiful birds
may come and go. If you value them they may stay. But if in a vision
you were to see your own mind represented as a bird-cage, what kind
of birds would you perceive in it ? A few parrots might be there, and
some decaying or dead birds. The bottom of the cage would be filthy.
What does this filth represent psychologically ? What is its psychologi-
cal meaning ? Wrong ideas, ideas that check the development of the
mind, traditional ideas that have become lifeless, or conventional ideas
obsequiously imitated are so much filth in the mind. In short, the
obsequious mind stinks as much as does the mind swarming with little
nasty petty schemes, like mice. Now to receive new ideas and think
from them begins to cleanse the mind, and also the countenance. The
Work is packed with new and powerful ideas, and if we can bestir and
humiliate ourselves just enough to receive them and think from them,
our minds will begin to smell less badly in the nostrils of heaven, and
our faces will become more distinct, seeing that the mind and the face
are connected. One would certainly expect the face to alter after a
time as an outward sign of an alteration in the mind, but if it does not,
one knows that the new and powerful ideas have not been received.
Now to receive, the mind must be like a bowl or cup. I mean simply
that a bowl or cup could represent the receptive mind. Something can
be poured in and retained. The bowl or cup upside down—that is,
pointing downwards, would then represent the non-receptive mind.
Again, the bowl or cup might be filled with dirt so that, until it was
cleaned out, nothing could be put in, or put in without contamination.
The new and powerful ideas of the Work, therefore, could not be re-
ceived if the bowl or cup were upside down or filled with filth and we
have already seen what filth can represent psychologically. These
matters can only be represented by ordinary visual images, because no
one can draw a mind or a wrong idea. But using the seen objects of the
senses as representing things not seen, it is possible to express the invisible
in terms of the visible. This is possible provided it is realized that the
visible things, made use of, represent invisible things and so are not
to be taken literally, but psychologically. So a bowl can mean the mind.
Empty and turned up it can mean the mind receptive to ideas; full of
filth it can represent the mind as full of false and wrong or dead ideas;
and full of clean water, full of true and living ideas. It is, however,
quite true to say that this transforming of the literal sense into the psy-
chological sense is repugnant to many and strongly resented by them,
to their very great loss. "A bowl is a bowl, Sir, and can only mean a
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