Issue #40

Issue #40 Mar 2025 "The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them." ~Peter OuspenskyHi Spring officially began a handful of days ago on March 20th. It was a biological dawn, a delicate interplay between dormancy and...

Issue #39

Issue #39 Feb 2025 "Roll your triangle." ~Jane HeapHi In Roman times, February was, to some degree, a month of purification. On the 15th February – not the Ides of February, by the way, which was the 13th of February (the Ides meaning "the middle of the month") -...

Issue #38

Issue #38 Jan 2025 "It is necessary to have had all illusions and all disillusions."~ GurdjieffHi A long time ago, the year began in March. That was until Roman King Numa Pompilius (713–673 BCE), added January and February to a previously 10-month cycle that began in...

Issue #37

Issue #37 Dec/Jan 2024/25 "Time is the unique subjective."~ GurdjieffHi The custom of making New Year's resolutions is old, dating back to the time of the Ancient Babylonians, who began their new year in mid-March at the time of the planting of crops. During their...

Issue #36

Issue #36 November 2024 "No elephant and no horse, even the donkey is mighty."~ Saying of Gurdjieff's FatherHi 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 clicking this link or...

Issue #35

Issue #35 October 2024 "Individuality is the consciousness of Will."~ Alfred OrageHi 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 Manuscript. To buy it or...

Issue #34

Issue #34 August 2024 "Love comes in two ways, by remembering ourselves and by forgetting ourselves."~ Rodney CollinHi 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...

Issue #33

Issue #33 August 2024 "Let your death be your advisor."~ Carlos CastanedaHi 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 view, it is a religious painting...

Issue #32

Issue #32 July 2024 "Remorse: sorrow for not having acted according to objective conscience."~ OrageHi Because of a recent and interesting visit to a monastery in Germany, I decided to try to learn German. Nowadays there are many effective pieces of software that...

Issue #31

Issue #31 May 2024 "The whole Work is really a cosmos – everything in it depends on and explains everything else. It is only when one catches a glimpse of the whole that one feels an enormous wonder at a great purpose."~ Rodney CollinHi This newsletter was twice...