Issue #47

Issue #47 January, 2026 "It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." OuspenskyDear ALL The start of 2026 has been uniquely unquiet. If the beginning of the year is the Do of an octave, this year’s opening was truly...

Issue #46

Issue #46 November, 2025 "Patience is the mother of will. If you have no mother, how can you be born." GurdjieffDear ALL It almost feels as though the year is over, although here in America, we have yet to have yet to navigate Thanksgiving and the run-up to Christmas...

Issue #45

Issue #45 September/October, 2025 "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 CollinDear ALL Long ago I...

Issue #44

Issue #44 August, 2025 "Impressions are more important than edible food." ~GurdjieffDear ALL In the English-German Tales Study group that currently meets each week (on Tuesdays)  we have noticed that the English and German version of the Tales are not identical, which...

Issue #43

Issue #43 July 2025 "Roll Your Triangle" ~Jane HeapDear ALL Have we all noticed the descent of mankind in the modern age?  Do we not sense a growing air of negativity in the sphere of man? The relentless march of technology, rather than elevating us, diminishes our...

Issue #42

Issue #42 May/June 2025 "All excuses are lies." ~Jane HeapDear ALL Among the pages of this newsletter you will find the poem, On Being Woven, by Jalal Uddin Rumi. It is published here in memory of Robert Davis a friend and companion in The Work, who recently died,...

Issue #41

Issue #41 Apr 2025 "Man learns in three ways: Competition, Example and Magnetism." ~Jane HeapIn The Tales (on page 919), writing about America, Gurdjieff says: "On the other hand, with the trades and 'professions' indispensable in the process of being-existence,...

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...