Lee Van Laer

The Proceedings of the 21st International Humanities Conference Lee Van Laer

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Foreword, Conference Program, Opening Remarks
Seminar Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, "Purgatory,"

Objective Conscience in Beelzebub and the Impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love Lee van Laer

The Philology of The Tales - Gurdjieff's Choice of Words in ALL and Everything Robin Bloor

An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of 'Omnipresent-Active-Element-Okidanokh, ' Part One: The First Peculiarity ToddySmyth

Seminar Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, "Purgatory," continued
Seminar Meetings with Remarkable Men, "Bogachevsky," chapter iv

Aiessirittoorassnian-contemplation Joseph Azize

Role of Contradiction in the Work Irv Givot

Gurdjieff on Hypnotism: Superstition, Magic, Religion, Hysteria, Prayer and Hypnosis in Work on Oneself John Amaral

Seminars Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am," Prologue

Remembering Gurdjieff Stephen Grant

Exploring the Third State of Consciousness, or Conscious Laborand Voluntary Suffering Ocke de Boer

Beelzebub's Tales and the Grace from Above Will Mesa

How We Block the First and Second Conscious Shocks Russell Schreiber

Seminar Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, "Purgatory," continued
Seminar Meetings with Remarkable Men, "Professor Skridlov," chapter iv

Gurdjieff, Ashiata and the Zoroastrian Connection John Macpherson

The Aim of Group Work in the Gurdjieff Tradition: Applied Obligolnian Strivings Jan Jarvis

Where do we go from here?
Drawings Kimberly Sheridan

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Foreword

The Planning Committee would like to take this opportunity of thanking all the Presenters for their help in producing these Proceedings. We hope that this publication will lead to further creative interactions between those in the Work in the future.

The 21st International Humanities Conference - ALL and Everything 2016 convened on Wednesday, April 20th to Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at the Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusetts. The conference was attended by over 100 participants travelling from Argentina, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

From the Conference's inception, its members have worked toward making this "gathering of the Companions of the Book" to become more and more just that - a gathering of people from all over the world who come together for the purpose of "fathoming the gist" of Gurdjieff's writings, of sharing our insights and experiences, our questions, and our efforts to understand and grow into becoming remarkable men and women.

The final session of the conference on Sunday morning, traditionally entitled "Where do we go from here?," provided an opportunity to discuss the achievements of the conference and the challenges facing its future editions.