Gurdjieff, Scott Sonnon News

E-mail updates from Scott Sonnon. He has a new book and website for Prasara Yoga. Also he has started a special program called Scott Sonnon Core Cadre.

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This year's All and Everything Humanities Conference has been announced (for those interested in Gurdjieff and his magnum opus "All and Everything"). Here is a schedule of what's planned:

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PROPOSED
PROGRAMME FOR A&E 2008
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WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 12
8:30 PM - Informal Session: Getting to Know You


THURSDAY, MARCH 13
8:00 - Voluntary Sitting / Meditation
9:15 -
Opening Remarks
9:30 - Paper 1: Svend Louland - Second Body Obstetrics
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:15 - Paper 2: Will Mesa - Objective Conscience
12:30 - Lunch
2:30 - Seminar 1: Ch. 23, Fourth Personal Sojourn of
Beelzebub to the Planet Earth
3:30 - Coffee Break
4:00 - Seminar 1:
Continued
9:00 - Special Presentation: Dorothy Usiskin - Ego


FRIDAY, MARCH 14
8:00 - Voluntary Sitting / Meditation
9:30 -
Paper 3: Bonnie Phillips - Manifestations and Potentials
10:45 - Coffee
Break
11:15 - Paper 4: Bill Murphey - Immaturity
12:30 - Lunch
2:30
- Seminar 3: Ch. 4 of Meetings with Remarkable Men, Father Evlissi
3:30 -
Coffee Break
4:00 - Seminar 3: Continued
9:00 - Free Social
Evening


SATURDAY, MARCH 15
8:00 - Voluntary Sitting / Meditation
9:30 -
Paper 5: Ian MacFarlane - Neologisms in Beelzebub's Tales
10:45 - Coffee
Break
11:15 - Paper 6: Anthony Blake - Beelzebub's Tales, Enneagram,
Mathnawi
12:30 - Lunch
2:30 - Seminar 3: Ch. 24, Beelzebub's Fifth
Flight to the Planet Earth
3:30 - Coffee Break
4:00 - Seminar 3:
Continued
7:30 - Conference Banquet


SUNDAY, MARCH 16
8:00 - Voluntary Sitting / Meditation
9:30 -
Special Seminar: Being Partkdolg Duty.
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:15 -
Seminar 5: Where Do We Go From Here?
12:30 - Lunch

Wish I could go but it's in England. There is also a new book out by Keith Buzzell a longtime student of the Work. It is called Man - a Three Brained Being and is published by Fifth Press.

Also, another long time Gurdjieff guy just published a new book on Carlos Castaneda called
The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda:

The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda demystifies what
Castaneda
sought to hide and delivers a detailed portrait of the forces
and
influences that drove him to become a Nagual, a man of knowledge
and
emptiness. Here, too, is a concept-to-concept comparison in which
the
primary source of Castaneda's ideas is uncovered--Gurdjieff's
Fourth
Way. Also explored are don Juan's true identity, the meaning
of
Castaneda's "jump into the abyss," the life of the Nagual and
the
strange sexual power games he played with his "witches." Included
in
full is the first reference to Nagualism, anthropologist
Daniel
Brinton's essay "Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folklore
and
History," written in 1894.