Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky: Volume 4

The fourth volume of Maurice Nicoll's Psychological Commentaries, collecting weekly talks given at Great Amwell House from October 1948 through October 1951. The commentaries range across the full practical and theoretical scope of the Fourth Way: negative emotions and their transformation, self-remembering and self-observation, false personality, internal considering, the Ray of Creation, A B and C influences, psycho-transformism, essence and personality, buffers, chief feature, and the formation of a psychological body. This volume has a particularly strong focus on the practical application of Work ideas to daily life — on changing not one's circumstances but oneself, on working with mechanical associations and negative 'I's, and on the relationship between knowledge and being. The talks from 1949-1950 include some of Nicoll's most direct and searching treatments of self-remembering, goodwill, and the idea of balanced man, written with the warmth and precision that characterise the best of his work at Great Amwell House.