The DuVersity Education Session Recordings
with Anthony Blake
These recordings are of our educational get togethers and we are making them available for the general public.
Meaning of the Movements
The Meaning of the Movements is an exploration of how the Gurdjieff movements work and what they are designed to do in terms of creating a state of higher awareness. Anthony Blake and others who have been involved with the movements for many years guide this exploration.
Am I Conscious
This video for June 2025 discusses teachings from the Fourth Way that our daily consciousness is entirely automatic and to have awareness that is not habitual requires work on oneself. Anthony Blake provides an Inner Exercise that focuses awareness and brings consciousness into the present moment. Leslie Schwing leads an exercise in being seen. Travis Jarrell presents a Sufi Tale that illustrates how to bring a fuller consciousness into our everyday activities. Michael White introduces teachings from the Dzogchen tradition of Tantric Buddhism.
Self Observation
This video from the DuVersity archives explores in detail the techniques of self-observation in the Fourth Way tradition. It features a dialogue between Anthony Blake, Russell Schrieber and Ronald Jones. It includes two exercises in self-observation with Anthony Blake and Travis Jarrell.
All and Everything
Anthony Blake’s lecture on Gurdjieff’s three centers with music by Matthew Arnold, followed by exercises in art with the artist Leslie Schwing and the dancer Travis Jarrell.
Descend Consciencely
This video explores Gurdjjief’s concept or “The Toast of the Idiots”. In this instance, idiots are not fools but states of being, with the ultimate “unique idiot” representing God. The participants engage in perception exercises that encourage them to connect to their inner and outer realities. The importance and richness of everyday life and shared experience are emphasized.
Navigating Hyparxis
Anthony Blakes explores the meaning of hyparxis in the works of J. G. Bennett with illustrations that include video footage of Sufi dancing. Travis Jarrell leads an exercise in self-remembering following by a video reading by Anthony Blake of T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding”.
Behind the Enneagram 2
Explication of the application of Gurdjieff’s Law of Seven in the enneagram. Exercises in attention with Leslie Schwing. A short talk by Michael White on the relationship of Gurdjieff’s enneagram to the ancient method of writing known as Ring Composition.
Behind the Enneagram 4
The meaning of the enneagram with Anthony Blake and the actor and director Jesai Jayhmes. The relationship of self-observation and theater by taking on roles that are outside of normal habituation to heighten self-consciousness with exercises based on theater.
Behind the Enneagram 5
The final conversation about the sources of the enneagram with exercises from J. G. Bennett with discussion of how the ideas of the octaves applies to the enneagram followed by a discussion by Michael White about how the ideas from Tibetan Buddhism about the outer, inner and secret meaning applies to the enneagram. This session concludes with a video of Gurdjieff’s movement in relationship to the enneagram.