Issue #36

Subscribe Issue #36 November 2024 “No elephant and no horse, even the donkey is mighty.”~ Saying of Gurdjieff’s Father Hi Last month we announced the new book by Stephen Aronson. It has now, today as I write this, become available. You can buy it by...

The Holy Planet Purgatory

Purgatory, An Artists Conception In The Tales, the Holy Planet Purgatory serves as home to a unique category of beings – the higher being-bodies or “souls” who have achieved remarkable levels of objective reason but nevertheless find themselves in a...

Working On Oneself

The Maze of the Work These are notes (reviewed and organized from a group meeting that asked the question “What is Work on Oneself)?” The Nature of the Work The Work is not about behavioral change it is about psychological change, particularly changing...

Okidanokh

Okidanokh – An Artist’s Impression The “Omnipresent-Active-Element”, Okidanokh is the most fundamental cosmic substance that emanates from the Sun Absolute. It plays an essential role in the creation and maintenance of everything in the...

Queen Mab

Queen Mab What follows is Mercutio’s remarkable description of Queen Mab from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 4) O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate...

Issue #35

Subscribe Issue #35 October 2024 “Individuality is the consciousness of Will.”~ Alfred Orage Hi We have two new books to announce. The first is the second book in the Side-by-side series which compares the published 1950 version of The Tales to The 1931...

The Attention Deficit Disorder

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...

At The Heart of Buddhism

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...

God As Cathode (and Anode)

Anode and Cathode The illustration above shows a battery with the anode and cathode connected to “plates” immersed in a medium (salt water for example). The medium provides some (even if very little) resistance to the electrical flow. The tendency will be...