Issue #50

Subscribe Issue #50 June/July, 2026 “In the state of vigilance chief feature can be seen as sleep, by seeing our automatic associations, dreams, fantasies.” Gurdjieff Dear Reader By almost every measure, this is a year of profound change. The pace of technological...

Ding Cuts up an Ox

Lord Wenhui Observes His Cook Ding  Cook Ding was carving an ox for Lord Wenhui. Wherever his hand touched, wherever his shoulder leaned, wherever his foot stepped, wherever his knee pressed — with a zip! and a zhoop!, he wielded his knife with a whoosh, and every...

Lost In The Experience

A Vision of Identification There is a trick the mind plays that is so constant, and so seamless, that we almost never catch it in the act. It is this: whatever we happen to be experiencing at any moment, we take to be ourselves. Not something we are having — something...

The Taklamakan

The Taklamakan From A Satellite In Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, on page 228 we read: “I and Ahoon then passed through indeed very unusual places, unusual even for the general nature of this peculiar planet, certain parts of which, by the way, only became...