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DR MAURICE NICOLL was born in 1884 in Scotland. Dr Nicoll took a first in Science at Caius College, Cambridge, afterwards qualifying in medicine at Bart’s Hospital. After studying in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, he entered upon his career as a Harley Street specialist. In World War I he was in charge of a hospital in Gallipoli. He described his war experiences in a book, In Mesopotamia, published in London in 1917 under the pseudonym of “Martin Swayne”. In 1917 another book came from Dr Nicoll. This was Dream Psychology and in it Dr Nicoll acknowledged his profound debt to Dr Jung with whom he had studied in Zürich. He became a pioneer in psychological medicine and published many papers on medical psychology. In 1922 Dr Nicoll went for a year to the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man which G.I. Gurdjieff had established at the Château du Prieuré, Fontainebleau. Dr Nicoll had met the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky in 1921 who described the teachings and personality of Gurdjieff in the volume In Search of the Miraculous. Up to 1940 Ouspensky lectured in London. Dr Nicoll’s leisure activities included building, music, literature and the drama. He painted in oils and water- colour. About his teaching Dr Nicoll said: “Just as we are to- day finding out about all sorts of chemicals, such as the sulphanilamides, penicillin, and streptomycin, so do we have to advance to the study of the poisons of the mind and emotions, the outlines of which further development were laid down in the Gospels.” About his intention in writing THE NEW MAN, he said: “The intention is to indicate that all teaching such as that contained in the Gospels and many teachings both old and new, in the short period of known history, is about transcending the violence which characterises mankind’s present level of being. It affirms the possibility of a development of another level of being surmounting violence.”
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