Maurice Nicoll

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Maurice Nicoll

Born July 19, 1884
Kelso, Scotland
Died August 30, 1953 (aged 69)
Pen name Martin Swayne
Occupation Author
Nationality British
Subjects Fourth Way
Notable work(s) Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
Relative(s) Father: William Robertson Nicoll
Influences


Maurice Nicoll, born at the Manse in Kelso, Scotland was the son of William Robertson Nicoll, a preacher of the Free Church of Scotland. He studied Science at Cambridge, before going on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich where he became a colleague of Carl Gustav Jung. Jung's psychological relevations and his work with Jung during this period left a lasting influence on young Maurice.[1]

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 himself became a pupil of Gurdjieff in the following year. In 1923 when Gurdjieff closed down his institute, Maurice joined P.D. Ouspensky's group. In 1931 he followed Ouspensky's advice and he started his own study groups in England. This was done through a program of work devoted to passing on the ideas that Maurice had gathered, and passing them through his talks given weekly to his own study groups. Many of these talks were recorded verbatim and documented in six-volume series of texts compiled in his own book Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. This compilation in turn, gave to fundamental ideas which led to other literary works on the subject of psychology, and published by him. Maurice also authored books and stories about his experiences in the Middle East using the pseudonym Martin Swayne.

Though Maurice advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he maintained interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream interpretation till the end of his life.[1]


Contents

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Nicoll, Maurice. Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky 1. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc.. ISBN ISBN 0-87728-899-2. 
  • Copley, Samuel (1989). Portrait of a Vertical Man: sn appreciation of Doctor Maurice Nicoll and his work. London: Swayne Publications. ISBN 0-9514414-0-X. 

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Books by Maurice Nicoll

  • Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Boston: Shambhala, 1996, and Samuel Weiser Inc., 1996, ISBN 0-87728-910-7 (6 volumes)
  • Dream Psychology by Maurice Nicoll
  • Living Time and the Integration of the Life by Maurice Nicoll
  • The Mark by Maurice Nicoll
  • The New Man : An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ by Maurice Nicoll
  • Informal Work Talks and Teachings by Maurice Nicoll
  • In Mesopotamia by Martin Swayne

[edit] Short stories by Maurice Nicoll under the pen-name Martin Swayne

  • "A Game of Consequences", London Magazine, October 1911
  • "The Black and Gold Curtain", London Magazine, April 1912
  • "The Mystery of the 'Vathek'", Pall Mall Magazine, January 1913
  • "Life-Like", The Strand Magazine, February 1913
  • "The Piano-tuner", London Magazine, April 1913
  • "Sir Clifford's Gorilla", The Strand Magazine,July 1913
  • "The Alabaster Jar", The Strand Magazine, August 1913
  • "The Flying Log", London Magazine, November 1913
  • "The Corot Landscape", The Strand Magazine, November 1913
  • "Half a Ton of Dynamite", The Strand Magazine, January 1916
  • "The Sleep-Beam", The Strand Magazine, March 1918
  • "The Whistling", Lloyd's Magazine, October 1918
  • "An Awkward Situation", The Strand Magazine, July 1924
  • "A Sense of the Future", The Strand Magazine, August 1924
  • "An Obvious Case", The Strand Magazine, October 1924
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