by Robin Bloor | Jan 29, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #38 Jan 2025 “It is necessary to have had all illusions and all disillusions.”~ Gurdjieff Hi A long time ago, the year began in March. That was until Roman King Numa Pompilius (713–673 BCE), added January and February to a previously...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Hidden Realm The Hidden World That Shapes Our Lives Bacteria are essential to life on Earth. They are found in virtually every environment imaginable, from the depths of the ocean to the human gut. They play critical roles in maintaining ecological balance and...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Communing With The Self A Journey To The Self “Is self-observation a moment of accepting oneself, or does that come afterwards?” Self-observation, in its purest form, must be uncritical, a dispassionate witnessing to the inner workings of our being. It is the patient...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Challenge of Being The Cost of Being In the quiet of the morning, When the dew weeps unseen, The soul whispers its longing: “Will you rise, or will you dream?” Cheap are the songs sung in comfort, The hands that labor not the clay. But costly is the fire that...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Instability of Reason Hamolinadir’s speech (The Tales p335) is worth reading and rereading. “The notice announced that the reporter had taken as the theme of his report the ‘Instability-of-Human-Reason.’ “Thereupon, this terrestrial friend of mine first expatiated...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 1, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #37 Dec/Jan 2024/25 “Time is the unique subjective.”~ Gurdjieff Hi The custom of making New Year’s resolutions is old, dating back to the time of the Ancient Babylonians, who began their new year in mid-March at the time of the...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 1, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Leo Tolstoy, An Artist’s Impression From Photographs The chapter from Beelzebub’s Tales entitled “The First Growl” paints a satirical portrait of an author’s attempt to write a new version of the “Gospel” for fame and profit....
by Robin Bloor | Dec 28, 2024 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Human Cell (An Artist’s Impression) Like a man born into a world shaped by history and social structures, a cell is born into the intricate micro-environment of a tissue – which is even more structured. It inherits a lineage, a set of instructions encoded in...
by Robin Bloor | Dec 28, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Jurney Into Shadow A Journey Into The Shadows We fancy ourselves explorers, masters of our inner domain, yet we often remain strangers to a significant portion of our being. This rarely observed side is the shadowy realm of the unknown and unacknowledged within...
by Robin Bloor | Dec 28, 2024 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Cheery Blossoms as a Japanese Image of Beauty A tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry with a specific structure – like a Haiku but with two added lines. Such poems often explore themes of nature, love, longing, sadness, or spiritual reflection. The first...