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Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chanting from Aleppo - "When"

Lyrics - Subhadra Balasuriya
Melody & Music - Arjuna Balasuriya
Vocals - Saheli Gamage and Jagath Wickramasinghe

Aadaraneeya Niagara Song - Hiru Kirana - Vocals - Saheli Gamage & Jagath Wickramasinghe

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"The theme is Listening. And it may be that even if we did have it, or something very like it before, you will be able to appreciate better. Since this came to me to have this theme of Listening. It’s been constantly in my mind the whole time, and I’ve been seeing for myself how extraordinary it is that we shut out what can enter us because we can’t listen. We can’t listen because what originates in our own self is all the time standing at the door and not letting things come in. You know, I’ve read three or four times through the lecture on freedom and pride, where Gurdjieff says if we want influences to enter we must remove these sentinels at the door; vanity and self-love. But as long as they’re at the door, influences from outside cannot enter. And of course not only from outside, but influences from within us, they are most important. There we stand, blocked. Unable either to receive from the outside or to receive from the deeper parts of our own self. People come and talk with me, and presumably they want me to say something to them, and I want to say something, and I start saying it and I realize that they cannot listen to what I am saying, because as soon as I say something they react they begin with their own gramophone record begins to turn”

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E359 | In this episode, we explore the evolution of Abdal and Bektashi doctrine from the 14th to 17th centuries. The Abdals of Rum and the Bektashis were two dervish groups in Anatolia who by the 16th century would merge to become the Bektashi Sufi order. Many Bektashi beliefs and practices are also inter-connected with those of Alevi communities. By taking a closer look at Abdal and Bektashi poetry, we examine how poetry, fiction, and other aspects of dervish piety evolved into the core beliefs of contemporary Alevism in Turkey.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/dervish-piety.html

Zeynep Oktay Uslu holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Darmouth College and a PhD in Islamic Civilisation from Sorbonne University École Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She currently teaches at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University. Her research interests include: The formation and historical evolution of Bektashism and Alevism, dervish piety, vernacularization, Islam in Anatolia and the Balkans in the Beglik and early Ottoman periods.

Matthew Ghazarian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of natural disaster, humanitarianism, and sectarianism, in central and eastern Anatolia between 1839 and 1893.

Işın Taylan is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. Her research examines the Ottoman intellectuals’ production of geographical knowledge in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  

CREDITS

Episode No. 359
Release Date: 20 April 2018
Recording Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Audio editing by Matthew Ghazarian
Music: Katibim (Üsküdar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla
Images and bibliography courtesy of Zeynep Oktay Uslu available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/dervish-piety.html

Dervish Piety and Alevism in Late Medieval Anatolia | Zeynep Oktay Uslu

Our customary way of thinking and talking about the world is in terms of objects and events, both of which are abstractions. Gurdjieff saw the world as the universal process of transformation of energies, regulated by two fundamental laws and various 'second-grade' laws arising from their interaction. The two basic realities are relations and transformations. The first are governed by the Law of Threefoldness variously called Triamonia and Triamazikamno and the second by the Law of Sevenfoldness called Eftalogodiksis or Heptaparaparshi- nokh. The interaction of these two laws is represented by the Enneagram symbol and by the Diagram of All Living referred to in Chapter II. It is also noteworthy that Gurdjieff refers in the Purgatory Chapter to a scale of energies of different 'degrees of vivifyingness', which is divided into twelve steps or stages. We find on close examination that all the first twelve numbers are associated with various laws or principles of the relationships and the transformations of substances. With the exception of the numbers five, seven and eleven, these are all obtained by combining two and three, as Plato does in his exposition of the Pythagorean doctrine in the Timaeus. Gurdjieff himself ascribes this knowledge to the Masters of Wisdom of Atlantis, again reminiscent of Timaeus. He departs however from the Platonic tradition in his description of Reciprocal Maintenance which has no place in Greek cosmology and did not enter European thinking until Gurdjieff came to the West.

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Appendix 2 Gurdjieff Making a New World

Gurdjieff Making A New World: Appendix 2, The Great Laws Read By Ben Bennett

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We must recognize that incalculable dangers lie behind the forces now at the disposal of governments, not only in the means of material destruction, but also and even more perhaps, in the weapons of mass suggestion, propaganda and state organization. There is no indication that the statesmen of any country will or can display the wisdom, the tolerance and the capacity for self-denial that the removal of these dangers requires. Nevertheless, events are moving in a way that is more favourable than we have any right to expect, and it may be that the transition to the new epoch will be accomplished without a great catastrophe that would destroy the major part of what man has achieved.

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