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...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 30, 2024 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Statue of Darwin Gurdjieff said that the chief feature of humanity is suggestibility. We can see this clearly in the general attitude to scientific theories that pervades European and North American culture. In general, they tend to believe everything that modern...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 30, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Votive Candles At a Paris meeting in 1938, Gurdjieff was asked the question: “How should one pray?” He replied: In our solar system certain substances emanate from the sun and the planets, in the same way as those emanated by the earth, making contact at...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 30, 2024 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Banquet One day the Supreme Being took it into his head to give a great banquet in his palace of azure. All the virtues were invited. Only the virtues … men he did not ask … only ladies. There were a great many of them, great and small. The lesser...
by Ronald Jones | Aug 30, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
A Stag with a Full Set of Horns – A Pirmaral perhaps Why Do We Ignore The Exercise at the Climax of The Tales? 1 Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is Gurdjieff’s towering masterpiece. 2 He spent years writing and refining it as he watched students listen to it...