(TV) Richard, Gurdjieff and stuff

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

OT aside - Saw Patti in Glasgow last night. She and the band were in 
great form. Mix of the old classics and thankfully the decent songs off 
12 (Experienced, Shelter, White Rabbit, Teen Spirit, Soul Kitchen etc). 
Her son Jackson on guitar is a mean player and Lenny Kaye got his turn 
by singing a rendition of Pushin too Hard. 

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On the Richard comments of late, thought i would share this especially 
as a quick look through his blog reveals a lot of references to the 
ideas of Gurdjieff.    I am currently undertaking research on a 
publication called The New Age which ran from 1907 - 1922 under the 
editorship of A.R. Orage.  It began life as a socialist journal and 
became a very influential, but small circulation publication with 
contributors such as H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound etc. 
Subject matter gradually veered towards the more esoteric (for the time) 
including Nietzsche, Bergson, mysticism, vegetarianism etc.  Orage was 
considered a bit of a genius editor who confounded everyone - especially 
the socialists - when he went off to 'find God' and join the Gurdjieff 
circle at Fountainbleu in 1922.  Also came across this quote today from 
a New Age contributor who was reflecting on a meeting with Ouspensky 
(another Gurdjieff associate).

"I have come across a fair number of dealers in higher thought, windbags 
at home on the astral plane, bores familiar with the fourth dimension, 
crackpots who have fathomed the mystery of human existence, and i have 
found that all these dabblers in the esoteric and transcendental proved 
to be arrant failures where the simple courtesies of everyday life were 
concerned...." (Paul Selver).

No real point to make but just seemed to resonate with some of the 
themes on here recently.

Graham
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