Pen name Martin Swayne Nationality Scottish Name Maurice Nicoll Education University of Cambridge | Occupation Physician, Author Role Psychiatrist | |
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Notable works Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Died August 30, 1953, Amwell, United Kingdom Books Simple Explanation of Work Id, The Blue Germ, Dream Psychology, The Mark, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES on the TE Similar People George Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, Margaret C Anderson, Colin Wilson, E J Gold | ||
The mark by maurice nicoll reading by dennis massa
Maurice Nicoll (19 July 1884 – 30 August 1953) was a British psychiatrist, author and noted Fourth Way teacher. He is best known for his Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, a multi-volume collection of talks he gave to his study groups.
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- The mark by maurice nicoll reading by dennis massa
- The new will a dream by maurice nicoll read by dennis massa
- Life and work
- References
The new will a dream by maurice nicoll read by dennis massa
Life and work
Nicoll was born at the Manse in Kelso, Scotland, the son of William Robertson Nicoll, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He studied science at Cambridge before going on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and then to Vienna, Berlin and Zurich where he became a colleague of Carl Gustav Jung. Jung's psychological revelations and his own work with Jung during this period left a lasting influence on Nicoll as a young man.
After his Army Medical Service in the 1914 War, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he returned to England to become a psychiatrist. In 1921 he met Petr Demianovich Ouspensky, a student of G. I. Gurdjieff and he also became a pupil of Gurdjieff in the following year. In 1923 when Gurdjieff closed down his institute, Nicoll joined P.D. Ouspensky's group. In 1931 he followed Ouspensky's advice and started his own study groups in England. This was done through a program of work devoted to passing on the ideas that Nicoll had gathered and passing them on through his talks given weekly to his own study groups.
Many of these talks were recorded verbatim and documented in a six-volume series of texts compiled in his books Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.
Nicoll also authored books and stories about his experiences in the Middle East using the pseudonym Martin Swayne.
Though Nicoll advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he also maintained interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream interpretation until the end of his life.