An Informal Interview with Dushka Howarth, A Daughter of Mr. Gurdjieff. - Mesa, Will

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Mesa, Will A Personal Tribute to Mr. Gurdjieff An Experiment Extracted from Beelzebub's Tales A Lawful Voyage Through Time and Space and the Transformation of Us and Earth According to Law An Informal Interview with Dushka Howarth, A Daughter of Mr. Gurdjieff. The Spirit of Christmas and the Teaching of Gurdjieff Time, the Merciless HEROPASS From Being Double to Being Single Again: Testimony of One Year of Inner Work Two Direct Ways of Penetrating the Subconsciousness Hadji-Asvatz-Troov and the Feeling of Pity A One Thousand and One Words Review Of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson Back to Articles Home Mesa, Will Will Mesa received his Ph.D. in electrical engeneering from the Univeristy of Florida. He spent three years with a group led by Henry Tracol in Paris, and six years with the groups of Nathalie Etievan in Venezuela, followed by four years with the New York Chan Meditation Center. He pursues a lifelong interest in the investigation of certain aspects of the Omnipresent-Okidanokh.

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I am grateful Will for this moving report and I pray for Dushka that she will get the rest that she so well deserves.

Reijo, Finland
added 2010-04-11

I'm very surprise to know that mr.Gurdjieff had a dauter.
I also have a father that have some thing to do with the enneagram, his name is Oscar Ichazo.
Could it be possible for me to get in touch with dushka?
I did estudy Gurdjieff teachings in Montreal for abaut 7 years with a group.
I hope you can contact me.
My email addres is:carolinaichazo@hotmail.com

Carolina Ichazo , Canada
carolinaichazo@hotmail.com
added 2010-04-21

Thank you for posting this interview. I am studying the teaching since 1996. I knew Dushka in person. I was introduced to her by another friend, then met her at her apartment in NYC.
I always disagreed with this famous statement that Gurdjieff "abandoned writing his original Russian text and made the current English translation the authentic original". I have a copy of the original book which was published in Toronto, and I translated 18 chapters from Russian to English. Not only the current English translation has planty of wrong words, but it has full long sentences cut off in a few places.
When I spoke to Dushka over the phone back in the beginning of 2007, we had a long conversation about the Tales of Beelzebub and its current English translation. After the conversation has drawn to a close, she actually told me: "You know, none of us know Russian. Why don't you take upon yourself this painful task of translating the book?"
What amazes me the most is the vanity with which many Americasn who claim to be interested in this teaching reject the truth. In fact, how can they know the correctness of the translation if none of them speak Russian? Gurdjieff wrote the original text in Russian, and the text was preserved in Paris until the time was right to publish it.
Also, Peter Ouspensky was not a mere "intellectual". It is impossible to write down and explain the teaching correctly unless one has PRACTICED it himself.
Again, thank you for posting this interview.

Aayo Brinkert, Russian Federation
added 2011-01-13

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