L.A. Times - Religious News

LAPD names its first Islamic chaplain
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700
Police leaders hope that the new chaplain, who has a history of building bridges between Muslims and law enforcement, can help officers understand his community better. American Muslims have never been much of a presence in the Los Angeles Police Department, accounting for less than 1% of its nearly 10,000 officers.
Live: Warped Tour at the Pomona Fairplex
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700
It's a case of deja vu as Bad Religion and NOFX headline in Pomona. Sideshow annoyances aside, the marquee names and promising newcomers prove there's plenty to enjoy in the annual punk road show. It's either a testament to the Warped Tour's longevity or a knock on its creativity that Bad Religion and NOFX, the bands headlining this 15th installment of the youth-skewing summer punk rock road show, could have played at any point in the outing's history.
Northern Ireland Protestant paramilitary groups to disarm
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700
Holdouts Ulster Defense Assn. and the Ulster Volunteer Force say the time has come for peace and that they have decommissioned or will soon all their weapons. Lasting peace in Northern Ireland took another step forward Saturday when major Protestant paramilitary organizations announced that they had decommissioned some or all of their weapons, following a similar move years earlier by the opposing Irish Republican Army.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

July 3, 2009: Faith Communities and Disability
stephanie winkler Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:55 -0000
Reverend BILL GAVENTA (Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities): In every faith community there is a scriptural basis for welcome and hospitality. But you’ve also got congregations who live in cultures where people with disabilities have been hidden and ostracized and devalued in lots of ways, and too often faith communities sanctify prejudices in the community [...]
July 3, 2009: Aravind Eye Hospital
stephanie winkler Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:09 -0000
[media=434] FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Aravind is the world’s largest eye care center, a one-stop shop that even makes many of the lenses and instruments used by its surgeons. It looks like any of India’s high tech centers where rich Indians and medical tourists can get first-world care at third-world prices. The surgical error rate is [...]
July 3, 2009: Interview: Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton
stephanie winkler Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:24:07 -0000
[media=433] Read more of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly’s July 1, 2009 interview in New York City with Riverside Church senior minister, the Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton: I would say it’s a time of relief, at least for me personally, to know that this moment has the potential to teach so many lessons. So it’s not relief as [...]

 

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Sufism - Articles by and about Gurdjieff and the work. Includes interviews with presentday followers of the Fourth Way, stories, poems and links.
Meta Description: [ Articles on Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and the spiritual path in Islam: Sufism. ]

An article on G.I. Gurdjieff - Contains a short biography and teachings, book presentations and links.
Meta Description: [ G.I. Gurdjieff: Biography, teachings, links. ]

Authentic Breathing Resources - Apart from focusing on breathing, Dennis Lewis' website contains articles and books on the Fourth Way based on his studies.
Meta Description: [ Authentic Breathing Resources explores the relationship of breathing, breath, and breathing problems to health, healing, and self-realization. Provides breathing and breathwork exercises, techniques, practices, articles, meditations, books on how to breathe in a natural, healthy way. ]

Call No Man Master by Joyce Collin-Smith - Online book for reading or download. This important work by Rodney Collin's sister-in-law has been out of print and unavailable for many years.
Meta Description: [ This is the fascinating story of a woman's life and spiritual search that touches on all the great esoteric moments of the last century. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, her brother-in-law Rodney Collin, and other spiritual supermen fired Joyce Collin-Smith's imagination from a young age and she literally '... ]

Changes in G. I. Gurdjieff's Teaching 'The Work' - A paper presented by Dr Sophia Wellbeloved at The 2001 Conference organized by Cesnur and Inform in London.
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Essays on Gurdjieff and Wim Nyland - Essays about G.I. Gurdjieff from a long-time student of the Work who was formerly a student of Wim Nyland.
Meta Description: [ Terry Winter Owens' Essays on Gurdjieff and Wim Nyland ]

G.I. Gurdjieff and Wilhelm Reich - Introducing a merger with The Fourth Way and Orgonomy in becoming more conscious and sharing the experiences encountered in daily life.

Gilgamesh Publishing - Gurdjieff in a new approach.
Meta Description: [ Enneagram, Gurdjieff, Fourth Way, Eneagrama, Quarto Caminho, Cuarto Camino. ]

Gurdjieff - A Reading Guide - Edited by J. Walter Driscoll; articles on Gurdjieff's lectures, the Movements, music and other subjects. Includes a bibliography and a presentation of Gurdjieff's writings.
Meta Description: [ This edition of the Gurdjieff Reading Guide contains a retrospective anthology of forty-three articles, some originally published here, and others dating as far back as 1919. These provide an independent survey of the literature by or about George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866?-1949) and offer a wid... ]

Gurdjieff Ideas - Provides information about the Gurdjieff work and links to Foundation groups in the USA and elsewhere. Suggested reading and viewing lists of related to the work are given.
Meta Description: [ Links to Gurdjieff Foundations, Excerpts from texts by John Pentland, Jenne de Salzmann, P.D. Ouspensky, Ruth Cooke and others ]

Gurdjieffian.net - Links to books for sale, online articles and organizations. Also a list of events.
Meta Description: [ Gurdjieff Portal ]

Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being - Offering tools for transformation, higher consciousness, attention, Gurdjieff, Fourth Way, books, CDs, music, videos, talks, art and online training.

Interview with Charles Tart - Transcript of interview Self Observation from Thinking Allowed series.
Meta Description: [ A transcript from the series Thinking Allowed, Conversations On the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. ]

Interview with Colin Wilson - Transcript of interview The High and the Low from Thinking Allowed series.
Meta Description: [ A transcript from the series Thinking Allowed, Conversations On the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. ]

Interview with Kathleen Speeth - Transcript of interview The Gurdjieff Work from Thinking Allowed series.
Meta Description: [ A transcript from the series Thinking Allowed, Conversations On the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. ]

Introduction to George Gurdjieff - Articles on various aspects on Gurdjieff and his teachings with links to other sites.

Jan Cox - Jan Cox, teacher, writer, philosopher gives direct methods for unlocking the Secret of Secrets. Daily news, books, audios and videos.

Kevin Langdon - Contains his essays, lectures, and reviews on Gurdjieff's teaching. Site includes some useful links related to the Gurdjieff work.

Mary Poppins, Gurdjieff and Fundamentalism - Pamela Travers, Gurdjieff, and the rhetoric of fundamentalism. Written by Massimo Introvigne. A paper at All Everything Conference in 1996, the year Pamela Travers died.
Meta Description: [ Mary Poppins and Pamela Travers discussed by Massimo Introvigne in their relationship with Gurdjieff, with a curious reaction by fundamentalists. ]

Meetings With a Remarkable Paradox - An article by Richard Smoley on the historical Gurdjieff and his teachings. Originally published in Gnosis magazine.

Morning of the Magicians - Review of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier's book, Morning of the Magicians, by R. T. Gault.

Nathan Bernier - The Fourth Way Revisited - Nathan Bernier writes about self-development, esoterism and sacred geometry, in terms of the Fourth Way and the philosophy of Gurdjieff, always searching for a new approach.
Meta Description: [ Nathan Bernier writes about self-development, esoterism and sacred geometry, using the Enneagram according to the Fourth Way and the teachings of Gurdjieff. ]

On the Fourth Way: Essays on the Ideas of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Collin - John Raithel's essays based on the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, and Rodney Collin.

404 P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous - Selected texts and notes by Bonnie Lee Hill.

Studies of the Inner Being - Extracts from, and transcripts of, lectures and tapes by Dr Robert Dr Bob Gibson, also known as Rhondell, a teacher in the work tradition. Includes practical concepts, and discussions of beginning work.

The Adventures of a Solitary Soul - A study of Gurdjieff's idea of the higher centers based on the experiences and dreams of Dr. Herbert J. Sharp and illustrated with his paintings.

404 The Great Work of Conscious Evolution - Essays concerning Real Change of Being. The almost insurmountable problem in presenting ideas that actually help individuals change their being, -- help them to wake up to their real situation, -- is that what can really help is offensive to the conditioned ego with its false sense-of-self

The Great Work of Conscious Evolution - Writings by Dwight Ott. Essays concerning esoteric wisdom, real change of being, and consciousness.

The Problem of the Subtle Sybil Effect - Latter part of article has interesting commentary on Charles Tart.
Meta Description: [ Overcoming multiple personalties and cultural consensus consciousness using insights of Gurdjieff, Tart and Carl Jung ]

The Shadows of Ideas, A Distant Glimpse of Gurdjieff - An essay by John Shirley on some of Gurdjieff's ideas.

The Work of Gurdjieff - Anonymously edited site with list of books, links, aphorisms and other information on Gurdjieff's teaching.

Waking Up - A review by Howard Rheingold of Charles Tart's book Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential

404 Walrus - Texts from Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and others on the Fourth Way.