A Record of Meetings

Transcripts of meetings held by Ouspensky in London between 1930 and 1947, recording his spoken answers to questions from members of his groups over nearly two decades of teaching. The meetings capture Ouspensky at work as a teacher in real time — clarifying distinctions, correcting misunderstandings, and pressing students toward right formulation and right division of themselves. Topics include the five meanings of 'I', false personality, essence and personality, self-remembering, attitudes, magnetic centre, and the conditions under which inner work can proceed. What distinguishes this record from Ouspensky's more composed writings is its immediacy: the exchanges show how he taught to actual people with actual confusions, and how precisely he insisted on certain distinctions — particularly the division of 'I' from one's name, which he came to regard not merely as advisable but obligatory. Taken together with The Fourth Way, which draws from the same source material, A Record of Meetings offers an unusually direct view of Ouspensky as a teacher and of the living texture of Fourth Way group work over a sustained period.