The Blue Germ

Martin Swayne was a pen name used by British psychiatrist and noted Fourth Way teacher Maurice Nicoll. It’s an engaging book – and a little silly, too, as it begins with a rural British doctor getting a marvelous revelation as he trips over his black cat, then making an abrupt visit to Russia. Silly, and quite delightful – and nothing at all one would expect from the author of the six-volume Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, or Dream Psychology,
Living Time and the Integration of the Life,
The Mark,
The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ, or Informal Work Talks and Teachings … But there’s a brightness, here, something that tells a strange and engaging tale with something deeper hiding in the silliness.