by Robin Bloor | May 29, 2026 | The Lost Herald
We invite you to join our Gurdjieff Summer Week 2026 at the Tanzheimat retreat center in the Lüneburg Heath, Germany: July 31 – August 9, 2026 · Inzmühlen, Lower Saxony Daily Gurdjieff Movements practice, thematic presentations and discussions with Robin Bloor,...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 1, 2026 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Lord Wenhui Observes His Cook Ding Cook Ding was carving an ox for Lord Wenhui. Wherever his hand touched, wherever his shoulder leaned, wherever his foot stepped, wherever his knee pressed — with a zip! and a zhoop!, he wielded his knife with a whoosh, and every...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 1, 2026 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
A Vision of Identification There is a trick the mind plays that is so constant, and so seamless, that we almost never catch it in the act. It is this: whatever we happen to be experiencing at any moment, we take to be ourselves. Not something we are having — something...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 1, 2026 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Taklamakan From A Satellite In Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, on page 228 we read: “I and Ahoon then passed through indeed very unusual places, unusual even for the general nature of this peculiar planet, certain parts of which, by the way, only became...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 1, 2026 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Visiting The Stem Cell Domain Most of what we file under “ageing” is, at root, a failure of replacement. Tissues wear out continually — blood cells last days, the gut lining is resurfaced every week, muscle and skin take constant mechanical punishment —...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 1, 2026 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #49 May, 2026 “The Moon in man is sensation. Sensation in man is the growing part of his inner cosmos.” Gurdjieff Dear Reader If you keep track of such things, you will know that the newsletter has missed two beats first in March and then...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 1, 2026 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Creation Scenario Nasadiya Sukta (Rig Veda 10.129) Then there was neither being nor non-being;no airy space, nor the heaven beyond it.What stirred, and where? In whose keeping?Was there water — a deep past all fathoming? Then there was neither death nor...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 1, 2026 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The “I AM” From Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ Chapter: The Fifth Talk You must here know that on the Earth, in almost all epochs, the persons who deserved to become genuine The initiates belonging to the first category were those who...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 1, 2026 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Full-on Parody of Personality The Self You Didn’t Choose Gurdjieff hands you an uncomfortable idea and refuses to soften it. You are not one person. You are two, and you have spent your whole life mistaking one for the other. He calls them essence and...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 1, 2026 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Denizens of the Underworld We carry an assumption about life so quietly that we seldom realize it – that life belongs to the surface of our planet. We picture it as a thin film of green and breathing matter spread across the skin of the planet, fed directly or...