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 | 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...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 23, 2026 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #48 February, 2026 “It is better to be temporarily an egoist than never to be just.” Gurdjieff Dear Reader February always seems like a threshold, The last breath of Winter leading us into the exuberance of Spring. I think of it as a bridge...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 23, 2026 | Readings, The Lost Herald
An Image of Christ Perceive how Christ reversed time. The Body. Man falls through time, slowly at first, each minute, each day, each month brimming with change: then faster and faster, till the years flash by indistinguishable, empty of all experience. The Spirit....
by Robin Bloor | Feb 23, 2026 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Dogs Running Free In Chapter I of The Tales, we encounter the story about Karapet of Tiflis and the dog catcher. This is clearly an allegory, but one that may be difficult for the reader to understand unless he is familiar with what the word “dog” symbolized to...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 23, 2026 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
A Portrait of Inner Considering Inner Considering Inner considering is a form of identifying — which is to say, it is a kind of sleep. It is mechanical through and through, a habitual drain on your energy that owes nothing of consciousness and returns nothing of...