Synopsis
Martin Swayne was a pen name used by British psychiatrist and noted Fourth Way teacher Maurice Nicoll.
It's an engaging book -- and a little silly, too, as it begins with a rural British doctor getting a marvelous revelation as he trips over his black cat, then making an abrupt visit to Russia. Silly, and quite delightful -- and nothing at all one would expect from the author of the six-volume Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, or Dream Psychology, Living Time and the Integration of the Life, The Mark, The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ, or Informal Work Talks and Teachings . . . But there's a brightness, here, something that tells a strange and engaging tale with something deeper hiding in the silliness.
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À propos de l?auteur
Henry Maurice Dunlop Nicoll, AKA Martin Swayne, (1884 - 1953) was a Scottish psychiatrist, author and noted Fourth Way teacher. He is best known for his Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, a multi-volume collection of talks he gave to his study groups. Nicoll was born at the Manse in Kelso, Scotland, the son of William Robertson Nicoll, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He studied science at Cambridge before going on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and then to Vienna, Berlin and Zurich where he became a colleague of Carl Gustav Jung. Jung's psychological revelations and his own work with Jung during this period left a lasting influence on Nicoll as a young man. After his Army Medical Service in the 1914 War, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he returned to England to become a psychiatrist. In 1921 he met Petr Demianovich Ouspensky, a student of G. I. Gurdjieff and he also became a pupil of Gurdjieff in the following year. In 1923 when Gurdjieff closed down his institute, Nicoll joined P.D. Ouspensky's group. In 1931 he followed Ouspensky's advice and started his own study groups in England. This was done through a program of work devoted to passing on the ideas that Nicoll had gathered and passing them on through his talks given weekly to his own study groups. Nicoll also authored books and stories about his experiences in the Middle East using the pseudonym Martin Swayne. Though Nicoll advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he also maintained interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream interpretation until the end of his life.
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