Maurice Nicoll

Born 19 July 1884

Kelso, Scotland
Died August 30, 1953 (aged 69)
Pen name Martin Swayne
Occupation Physician, Author
Nationality British
Subjects Fourth Way
Notable
work(s)
Psychological
Commentaries on the
Teaching of Gurdjie and
Ouspensky
Relative(s) Father: William
Robertson Nicoll
Maurice Nicoll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice Nicoll (19 July 1884 30 August
1953) was a British psychiatrist, author
and noted Fourth Way teacher. He is best
known for his Psychological
Commentaries on the Teaching of
Gurdjie and Ouspensky, a multi-volume
collection of talks he gave to his study
groups.
Contents
1 Life and work
2 References
3 Bibliography
3.1 Books by Nicoll
3.2 Short stories by Nicoll
under the pen-name Martin
Swayne
4 External links
Life and work
Nicoll was born at the Manse in Kelso,
Scotland, the son of William Robertson
Nicoll, a minister of the Free Church of
Scotland. He studied science at
Cambridge before going on to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital and then to Vienna, Berlin and Zurich where he became a
colleague of Carl Gustav Jung. Jung's psychological revelations and his own work
with Jung during this period left a lasting inuence on Nicoll as a young man.
[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. Gurdjie and he also became a pupil of Gurdjie in
the following year. In 1923 when Gurdjie closed down his institute, Nicoll joined
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P.D. Ouspensky's group. In 1931 he followed Ouspensky's advice and started his
own study groups in England. This was done through a program of work devoted
to passing on the ideas that Nicoll had gathered and passing them on through his
talks given weekly to his own study groups.
Many of these talks were recorded verbatim and documented in a six-volume
series of texts compiled in his books Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching
of Gurdjie and Ouspensky.
Nicoll also authored books and stories about his experiences in the Middle East
using the pseudonym Martin Swayne.
Though Nicoll advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he also maintained
interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream
interpretation until the end of his life.
[1]
References
^
a b
Nicoll, Maurice. Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjie and
Ouspensky 1. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc. ISBN 0-87728-899-2.
1.
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.
Bibliography
Books by Nicoll
Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjie and Ouspensky,
Boston: Shambhala, 1996, and Samuel Weiser Inc., 1996, ISBN
0-87728-910-7 (6 volumes)
Dream Psychology
Living Time and the Integration of the Life
The Mark
The New Man : An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ
Informal Work Talks and Teachings
In Mesopotamia (under the pen-name of 'Martin Swayne')
Why Is The 'Unconscious' Unconscious ? 1918 (with WHR Rivers & Ernest
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Jones)
Short stories by 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 Cliord'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
External links
Works by Maurice Nicoll (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Maurice_Nicoll)
at Project Gutenberg
An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ
(http://selfdenition.org/christian/Maurice-Nicoll-The-New-Man.pdf)
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Categories: 1884 births 1953 deaths English spiritual teachers
English spiritual writers Fourth Way
Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
People from Kelso, Scottish Borders Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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