Pigs barely sweat. But (allegedly) when pig iron cools. it sweats. Hence the term "sweating like a pig." Henry Nicholls ("The truth about pigs," BBC, Sept. 24, 2015) wrote ... "Boars will wallow in mud, but they probably do it to keep cool. "This is because pigs do not have functiona... Read More

Lewis R. Wolberg, M.D. (Medical Hypnosis, 1948) wrote ... "It is known that birds, frogs, alligators, crayfish, opossums, rabbits, guinea pigs, and some insects enter a state resembling hypnosis when subjected to certain stimuli. Thus alligators, frogs, and toads when turned over on their backs a... Read More

Maurice Nicoll (Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol. 1, 1952, 1980) wrote ... "You cannot imagine what hardships fakirs undergo. I do not know whether you have seen real fakirs or not. I have seen many: for instance I saw one in the inner court of a temple i... Read More

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1963) wrote ... "If a Yezidi is forcibly dragged out of a circle, he immediately falls into the state called catalepsy, from which he recovers the instant he is brought back inside. But if he is not brought back into the circle, he returns... Read More

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1963) wrote ... "I learned that the boy in the middle was a Yezidi, that the circle had been drawn round him and that he could not get out of it until it was rubbed away. The child was indeed trying with all his might to leave this magic c... Read More