Seminar: The Primordial Actualization & Exploration

Seminar

The Primordial
Actualization & Exploration

Friday, September 3 to Monday, September 6, 2010
San Juan Bautista, California
(1 hour from San Jose Airport)

Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary. This will be the last open seminar. Future seminars will be limited to direct students and those participating in The Gurdjieff Studies Program.

Because space is limited and past seminars have filled quickly, please make your reservation early. The total cost of tuition, lodging (double occupancy) and meals is $575 with reservations received by August 15, 2010. Afterward, the cost is $675. Space is reserved with a deposit of $300.

To reserve a place, send your deposit by mail or reserve electronically below. There is a small surcharge when using the latter.

To reserve a place by mail, send a check made out to Arete Communications to the following address:

Arete Communications
773 Center Boulevard #58
Fairfax, CA 94978-0058

If you have questions, email us at: Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086

Emotion and Blood

Back in 1997 I read a fascinating book by Candace Pert, "Molecules of Emotion" that discussed her research into the subject. Evidently it was good science and her colleges later received formal recognition for the discovery of the "opiate receptor."

Connection of body to emotion by blood? What do you think?

The Help, review

The Help by Kathryn Stockett




This was an excellent introduction to the world of women in the south during the 60's and before. The NPR interview did not do it justice. It is much better than I expected.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Gurdjieff, Louis Sullivan, Ayn Rand?

Wright, Frank Lloyd (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.  He was a famous architect and author about  architecture and society.

He first encountered Gurdjieff was via his wife, Ogivanna. Olgivanna Hinzenberg, one of Gurdjieff's pupils from 1919 to 1924, married Wright. Gurdjieff and Wright first met in June of 1934 at Taliesin in southern Wisconsin. (1.)   Gurdjieff visited Taliesin in Wisconsin for 24 hours during his visit to Chicago in 1934.  (2.)   Gurdjieff and Wright met several times during the 30's and 40's. (4.)  Solita Solana wrote about Frank Lloyd Wright having dinner with Gurdjieff and his students prior to May 30, 1937.

Frank Lloyd Wright's role in the Work was that he supported his wife, Olgivanna in teaching the Work at Taliesin. (4.)  Frank and Olgivanna formed the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. "It was a community that provided architectural training with a holistic, "learn by doing" approach that stressed appreciation of all the arts, ..." (5.)  Olgivanna continued the Taliesin Fellowship after Wright's death, up until her own death on March 1, 1985. (3. pg 15)

1. Gurdjieff International Review,

Gurdjeef at Taliesin

By Frank Lloyd Wright

This newspaper article [by Frank Lloyd Wright] was published in the Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin) on Sunday, August 26, 1934. 

http://www.gurdjieff.org/wright1.htm

Copyright © 2004 Gurdjieff Electronic Publishing

Featured: Fall 2004 Issue, Vol. VIII (1)

Revision: November 1, 2004

2. Gurdjieff International Review,

No Harem

Gurdjieff and the Women of The Rope

by Rob Baker

http://www.gurdjieff.org/rope.htm

Copyright © 1997 Rob Baker

This webpage © 1998 Gurdjieff Electronic Publishing

Featured: Winter 1997/1998 Issue, Vol. I (2)

Revision: April 1, 2000

1. Frank Lloyd Wright: a biography By Meryle Secrest

ISBN: 9780226744148   Published May 1998 

University of Chicago Press

1. JSTOR: The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Winter, 1974-1975), pp. 126-139

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4634942

Organic Living:

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowhip

and Georgi Gurdjieff's Institute for the 

Harmonious Development of Man

1. http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/

Retrospective

I looked over my blogging history last winter. Some of the things I wrote years ago seemed so inane that I removed some of them, left others, but the result is that I don't have the desire to blog that I started out with. And if I do blog, I prefer to quote material rather than paraphrase it, or talk about my interpretation. I can still keep posting seeds of ideas that may be of value to me later.

I haven't entered a single conversation between Ayn Rand's cat and Gurdjieff's dog. They have been talking about the goal of man's existence recently. Is my failure to blog about this over the last 5 years an example starting out with an intention and finding it reversing itself?

Being Observed?

Today I discovered that I have a "follower." This follower appears authentic in the sense that is does not seem to be computer generated.

The feeling of having a follower of this blog stimulates a different sense of what I may write. I had been writing for two people, myself, and web-crawlers. Now I wonder, what would I write for anyone else?

I'll let this cook in my "subconscious" for a while, ponder it.

Fourth Way Seminar in September 2010

Seminar

Theme to be Announced

Friday, September 3 to Monday, September 6, 2010
San Juan Bautista, California
(1 hour from San Jose Airport)

Through guided meditation, Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™, dialogue and private interviews, William Patrick Patterson explores the theme. Open to all levels of simplicity. No previous experience necessary.

Because space is limited and past seminars have filled quickly, please make your reservation early. The total cost of tuition, lodging (double occupancy) and meals is $575 with reservations received by August 15, 2010. Afterward, the cost is $675. Space is reserved with a deposit of $300.

To reserve a place, send your deposit by mail or reserve electronically below. There is a small surcharge when using the latter.

To reserve a place by mail, send a check made out to Arete Communications to the following address:

Arete Communications
773 Center Boulevard #58
Fairfax, CA 94978-0058

If you have questions, email us at: Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086