The Seven Psychic Factors, Part I

I was recently asked by a friend in the work to comment on a remark Gurdjieff makes  in the third talk of the third series. This talk begins with the title, “Delivered by me to a pretty rarefied assemblage.”

His choice of words, so often the case, is arch. Rarefied can mean “distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people;” but it also means “in a…