To Awaken The Emotions

The Radiation of Pure Emotion To Awake the Emotional Side While we might “know better otherwise,” we often imagine ourselves as having a single mind or consciousness, neatly tucked away in the brain. Nevertheless, in the Work, we are depicted as complex...

The Tales of Automatic Thought

The Domain of Automatic Thought The Siren Song of Automatized Thought The Tales is not a comforting read. It was written “to-corrode-without-mercy-all-the-rubbish-accumulated-during-the-ages-in-human-mentation”. Among the many observations Gurdjieff...

Is The Word “God” A Noun Or A Verb?

The Struggle of the Verb and the Noun         A Noun or A Verb To name God a noun is to build a cathedral     around a shadow. It is to mistake the vessel for the sea,     to worship the graven image of a force         whose nature is flow. A noun is a tomb, a fixed...

Issue #44

Subscribe Issue #44 August, 2025 “Impressions are more important than edible food.” ~Gurdjieff Dear ALL In the English-German Tales Study group that currently meets each week (on Tuesdays)  we have noticed that the English and German version of the Tales...

The Disease of Tomorrow

Walking darkly into the Future This is one of the passages from The Tales that impacts all of us sooner or later. Later usually… “… the personal observations and investigations I later specially made, regarding this said strange impulse present in them,...

Empty Yourself

The Struggle of the Self         Tao Te Ching #16 Empty yourself of everything.Let the mind become still.The ten thousand things rise and fallwhile the Self watches their return. They grow and flourishand then return to the source.Returning to the source is...

The Penguin Huddle Question

Penguins Discussing Philosophy The Penguin Huddle Question In the icy expanse of Antarctica, a vibrant mosaic of life plays out against the stark white backdrop. Here, beset by the wicked polar winds, a colony of emperor penguins, dignified by their sleek...

Issue #43

Subscribe Issue #43 July 2025 “Roll Your Triangle” ~Jane Heap Dear ALL Have we all noticed the descent of mankind in the modern age?  Do we not sense a growing air of negativity in the sphere of man? The relentless march of technology, rather than...