Issue #22

Issue #22 April/May 2023 "Three parts to every job: preparation, doing it, cleaning up."~ Jane HeapHi There is a difference in the public holidays between the US and Europe which, in my view, favors Europe. In the US, aside from Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the...

Issue #21

Issue #21 March 2023 "Lies and fears — this is the atmosphere in which an ordinary man lives.” ~GurdjieffHi For me, March is a month dominated by Lent. It begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls either in February or March. On that Wednesday, Christians have ashes...

Issue #20

Issue #20 February 2023 "With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.” ~GurdjieffReflections of Jane Heap The just-published book of Sayings From The Gurdjieff Work  includes a chapter of maxims from Jane...

Issue #19

Issue #19 January 2023 “The way of the real man is that of the warrior, the one who undertakes war on all levels, and, firstly, the war against himself.” ~GurdjieffThe False Version of The Tales For the sake of discouraging those who might actually try to read the...

Issue #18

Issue #18 December 2022 “People's whole lives often consist in paying off the promissory notes of small accidental I's.” ~Gurdjieff Gurdjieff's Birthday? The passport above gives his Gurdjieff's birth date as the 28th December 1877 - the year 1877 is one of the three...

Issue #17

Issue #17 November 2022 “All creation, all forms of art, were originally instruments of knowledge.” ~Gurdjieff Accident, Karma, Fate, Will False personality, the false idea of oneself that we gradually assemble as we grow, falls under the law of accident. This means...

Issue #16

Issue #16 October 2022 “Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.” ~Gurdjieff The Germans “Now, my boy, wishing to give you a certain understanding of the peculiar psyche of the three-brained beings of this...

Issue #15

Issue #15 September 2022 “ To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.” ~GurdjieffThe Trogoautoegocrat When I first encountered the concept Trogoautoegocrat I thought of it...

Issue #14

Issue #14 July/August 2022 Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil! ~Gurdjieff The Trogoautoegocrat When I first encountered the concept Trogoautoegocrat I...

Issue #13

Isssue #13 — June 2022 We always use more energy than is necessary, by using unnecessary muscles, by allowing thoughts to revolve and by reacting too much with feelings. ~ GurdjieffThe Circles of the Yezidis We are all Yezidis.According to Gurdjieff in Meetings With...