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Preparing for Negative Emotions by Maurice Nicoll

The Negative Emotions Various states of depression Various kinds of self-pity and self-hatred (self-hatred is a more subtle form of self-pity) Various kinds of persisting resentment Of feeling badly treated, not being estimated at your proper value—do you know who I am?! Vanity…you don’t recognize my greatness, fuck you! Lamenting, feeling oh so bad about…a […]

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Our Negative Patterns go in Cycles by Maurice Nicoll

In making effort on some side of oneself, such as some particular form of being negative (judging, vanity, self-pity, superiority, envy, jealousy, complaining), remember that everything goes in cycles in oneself —that is, everything comes round at certain intervals. It is not that these intervals are regular, but that things recur or return, internally, sometimes

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A Perspective on Gurdjieff’s Suggestion: Try Not to Express Negativity by Stephen Aronson

 “Try Not to Express Negativity” by Stephen Aronson Stephen Aronson Of all Gurdjieff’s directions and suggestions for the practical implementation of his ideas, the one which seems most persistently misunderstood is his recommendation to “Try not to express negativity”.  Regardless of how often students may be reminded that the Work may be about psychological evolution,

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Reversing Negative Attitudes…How to Work in These Times of Great Chaos and Negativity by John G. Bennett March 13, 2021

Reversing Negative Attitudes – (transcript of a talk) JG Bennett Talk given at Leighton House, Kensington, London November 7, 1972 “When some of us met a month or two ago at Shantock, I said that I would like to work with a number of people who had already experience of our work, and who would

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