Issue #26

Issue #26 August/September 2023 "Common sense mellowed and experienced is wisdom; and wisdom in its ripeness is beauty."~ Orage"Hi Many things make it impossible for us to perceive reality directly. We have limits. Our hearing operates only in a small band of...

Issue #25

Issue #25 July/August 2023 "Never visit someone only to pass the time."~ Gurdjieff"Hi I'm fascinated by the idea that the media represents (or perhaps is) the collective thought processes, both smart and dumb, of mankind. Looking at it this way, we can depict mankind...

Issue #24

Issue #24 June/July 2023 "The teaching is outside of all religious dogma, outside of all politics. Never talk about such."~ Gurdjieff  Hi Now that the 2nd and 3rd Series Study Groups have completed examining Gurdjieff's later books, we have decided to embark on a...

Issue #23

Issue #23 May/June 2023 "Without trouble, conflict, life become dead. People live in status quo, live only by habit, automatically and without conscience."~ Gurdjieff  Hi We enter June, and the Summer Solstice will soon be upon us. Modern Druids will assemble at...

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...