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...

Logical Fallacies

Philosophers in Dispute Logical Fallacies The study of logical fallacies is worthwhile for those who wish to exercise their intellectual center. And it is worth doing to identify the Hasnammusian methods that are so frequently used by those who wish to bamboozle...

Okidanokh – The Bare Bones

The Creation, Perhaps Okidanokh is one of the more confusing words that Gurdjieff uses in The Tales. He refers to it as the “Omnipresent-Active-Element”, clearly declaring it to be everywhere and playing an active role in the Universe. It plays the pivotal...

The Quest

Sir Percival on His Quest The Quest You can distill existence down to just three fundamental questions: What resides within my inner world? What comprises this immense universe, of which I am but an infinitesimal speck? And ultimately, what am I? There are two...

Recollections of School

The Schoolboy Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky Dreams of School That night I had the most hideous dreams. No wonder; all the evening I had been oppressed by memories of my miserable days at school, and I could not shake them off. I was sent to the school by distant relations,...