by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff – A Sketch The text below is an excerpt from The 1931 Manuscript of Beelzebub’s Tales. It is unusual ast there is no parallel text to be found in the final published version of the Tales. It could perhaps be argued that this topic is treated in...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Attention Deficit Reality The fundamental challenge of human existence lies not in our circumstances but in our relationship with attention. We live in a perpetual state of dispersed awareness, our energy scattered like coins from a torn pocket. We pay exorbitant...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Buddha The Four Noble Truths The Four Noble Truths describe the nature of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path leading to its cessation. The First Noble Truth: The Truth of Suffering (Dukkha) Suffering is an inherent part of human existence. It arises...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Anode and Cathode The illustration above shows a battery with the anode and cathode connected to “plates” immersed in a medium, which can be considered as providing a resistance to the electrical flow. The tendency will be for negative charge to move from...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 3, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #34 August 2024 “Love comes in two ways, by remembering ourselves and by forgetting ourselves.”~ Rodney Collin Hi I have always been mesmerized by Guaguin’s painting that bears the title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 29, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
A Zen monk practicing silence In a world filled with constant noise and distractions, which in turn engender a similar level of noise in the inner world, silence is a rare and precious commodity. In the stillness of silence we discover the key to unlocking the path to...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 29, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Ether Permeates The Universe We intend, in a series of articles to investigate fundamental aspects of Gurtdjieff’s description of the Universe according to the text of The Tales. In particular, we intend to examine Etherokrilno and Okidanokh. Gurdjieff...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 29, 2024 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Troubadour Carel de Amor So through the eyes love attains the heart:For the eyes are the scouts of the heart,And the eyes go reconnoiteringFor what it would please the heart to possess.And when they are in full accordAnd firm, all three, in the one resolve,At that...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 28, 2024 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Descending Scale of Truth The illustration above shows a scale that spans the gulf between words and absolute truth. We designate the top layer as truth, although if we go into finer detail there are many layers within this layer – the truth of the absolute, the...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 30, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #33 August 2024 “Let your death be your advisor.”~ Carlos Castaneda Hi I have always been mesmerized by Guaguin’s painting that bears the title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (painted in 1897-1898). In my...