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Terry Winter Owens' essays on Gurdjieff and Wim Nyland

Terry Winter Owens, in addition to being an internationally published composer and pianist, is a long-time student of the Gurdjieff work and has studied under some of the eminent teachers of the Gurdjieff Work, and is herself a group leader in New York City.

Here are some of her writings related to the Gurdjieff ideas.

The Struggle to "Fathom the Gist" of Beelzebub's Tales

New version of an essay originally published in the Gurdjieff International Review's Winter 1997/1998 issue, Vol. I No. 2.

In the prologue to Beelzebub's Tales, Gurdjieff issues some "FRIENDLY ADVICE." This discussion of the process of attempting to "fathom the gist" of Gurdjieff's writings -- specifically Beelzebub's Tales discusses how the struggle to unearth meaning is necessary to the process of understanding.

A Remembrance of W. A. Nyland
In the Ear and Eye of the Beholder

Terry Winter Owens was a long-time student of Willem Nyland. In this essay, she focuses on what she believes Nyland himself considered important: his unrelenting imperative to work on oneself and to do so correctly and in accordance with an accurate representation of inner effort and its relationship to the ideas as a whole.

Mr. Nyland and the Piano

Originally published in the Gurdjieff International Review's Fall 2000 issue, Vol. IV No 1.

Owens, always happy to try out a new piano, was asked by Wim Nyland to evaluate a Steinway concert grand piano offered as a gift by Timothy Leary. It was quite a unique instrument and the trip [sic] to Timothy Leary's place in Milbrook was an adventure in itself.

Commentary on Beelzebub's Tales

An essay first published in the 1960s by University Books for their Mystic Arts Book News, and later reprinted in the Gurdjieff International Review's Winter 1997/1998 issue, Vol. I No. 2.

Commentary on Meetings with Remarkable Men

The essay first published by University Books in their Mystic Arts Book News, and later in the Gurdjieff International Review's Winter 1997/1998 issue, Vol. I No. 2. Meetings with Remarkable Men may remain only information we shall ever have about Gurdjieff's life and the sources of his knowledge - although it maybe be quite allegorical. Each of Gurdjieff's men either exemplify one or another aspect of this development or uncover the means for actualizing such possibilities, but without question the most remarkable man is Gurdjieff himself.

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