SOPHIA WELLBELOVED: CURRENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH 2011
My current research is now looking at two areas:
1.
Related to Gurdjieff studies:
Gurdjieff and Orage: the influence of the Work on American Literature in novels and short stories of the 1920s and 1930s
Preliminary research into this was given in a paper co-authored with Jon Woodson
‘Conflation of Myths, and ‘Lawful Inexactitudes’ in Zora Neale Hurston’s Monkey Junk’.
2.
Related to wider issues concerning practitioner-scholars of esoteric disciplines and related to the interaction of scholarship and personal experience.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/researchcentres/myth/events/daimonic/cfp.html
At the conference above, interest in how to effect an interaction between scholarship and personal experience was expressed as the necessity for a ‘bridge’ between the practice and the academic exploration of esoteric, spiritual, or religious teachings which explore and focus on the transformations of the self.’
See Bridge – Chasm – Ainoma
