Maurice Nicoll (1884-1953), who wrote under the pseudonym Martin (Luttrell) Swayne, was a Scottish author. 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. 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 book...