Issue #37

Subscribe Issue #37 Dec/Jan 2024/25 “Time is the unique subjective.”~ Gurdjieff Hi 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...

Gurdjieff and Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy, An Artist’s Impression From Photographs The chapter from Beelzebub’s Tales entitled “The First Growl” paints a satirical portrait of an author’s attempt to write a new version of the “Gospel” for fame and profit....

A Tale of Two Cosmoses

The Human Cell (An Artist’s Impression) Like a man born into a world shaped by history and social structures, a cell is born into the intricate micro-environment of a tissue – which is even more structured. It inherits a lineage, a set of instructions encoded in...

A Journey Into The Shadows

The Jurney Into Shadow A Journey Into The Shadows We fancy ourselves explorers, masters of our inner domain, yet we often remain strangers to a significant portion of our being. This rarely observed side is the shadowy realm of the unknown and unacknowledged within...

Three Japanese Tanka

Cheery Blossoms as a Japanese Image of Beauty A tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry with a specific structure – like a Haiku but with two added lines. Such poems  often explore themes of nature, love, longing, sadness, or spiritual reflection. The first...