A question may be asked: Why the branching out into issues of language in recent posts, and previously, when the main themes of this publication are said to be the examination of medicine, hypnotism and consciousness in Gurdjieff’s teaching? Well, on the one hand, one could say that everything to do with Gurdjieff’s legacy impinges on these three areas. On the other hand, language, especially alongside human mentation, seems to have been a particular “hobby” of Gurdjieff’s,