The Birth of Gurdjieff

During our drive home from Maine, Neal asked me what the point of Gurdjieff’s story about the midwife sucking a cocaine lozenge during his birth is.

Of course trying to explain what the point of anything Gurdjieff did is a dangerous exercise. But we’ll take a stab at it anyway; and by doing so, reveal the remarkable subtlety with which Gurdjieff wrote, a…