Issue #49

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...

The Hymn of Creation

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...

The “I AM’ Exercise

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...

The Self You Didn’t Choose

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...

Issue #48

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...

Christ and the Compression of Time

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....

Gurdjieff’s Dogs

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...

Inner Considering

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...