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Two Voices
This member joined the Gurdjieff Society in London in 1967.
Three generations of my family were to have the annual holiday in the sun together, and it overlapped our September 'work weekend'. I had decided that I would simply come home early. Neither holiday nor weekend needed to be sacrificed.
Driving from the airport to that 'weekend', I immediately became aware that something in me was distinctly unhappy. It was a classic case of one 'I' making a decision, another 'I' - which had not been consulted - having to carry it out.
The whole way from the airport to the venue, the currently incumbent 'I' bitched and complained. I was trying at the same time to somehow prepare for the weekend as I drove, to bring head and body together. Sensation as a result grew stronger, the head gradually quieter, but the complaining voice in the background grew louder, a veritable crescendo.
I ceased all effort, stopped off for a coffee, then sat quietly for a while in the car. I did this because I had become aware of another voice within, at first hardly audible. It was a much quieter voice, lighter, more intelligent. I knew and trusted this voice. Its message was clear. A decision had been made, in connection with my / our aim. That was what was to be obeyed.
I started the car. Everywhere along the road, the complaining voice intervened. It grew even louder. I was tired, I was hungry, not really rested by my truncated holiday. I began to see the justice of the complaining 'I's position. A real struggle ensued, the complainant louder, the second voice consistent and insistent in counterpoint.
As I drove in through the gates of the venue, I caught a glimpse of the others still at dinner within.
Despite the late hour, I sat in the car digesting a realisation that brought with it a strange calm and confidence. It was the conviction that I had known all along that it was the second voice I would listen to in the end.
New Recommended Gurdjieff Books & Music:
Jeanne de Salzmann: The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of GurdjieffElan Sicroff The Thomas De Hartmann Project
Korman: A Woman's Work
Dorine Tolley: The Power Within
Dushka Howarth: It Is Up to Ourselves
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An Introduction to The Gurdjieff MovementsA&E Conference 2012
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