Issue #33

Subscribe Issue #33 August 2024 “Let your death be your advisor.”~ Carlos Castaneda Hi I have always been mesmerized by Guaguin’s painting that bears the title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (painted in 1897-1898). In my...

Why Darwin Was Wrong

Statue of Darwin Gurdjieff said that the chief feature of humanity is suggestibility. We can see this clearly in the general attitude to scientific theories that pervades European and North American culture. In general, they tend to believe everything that modern...

Prayer in the Work

Votive Candles At a Paris meeting in 1938, Gurdjieff was asked the question: “How should one pray?” He replied: In our solar system certain substances emanate from the sun and the planets, in the same way as those emanated by the earth, making contact at...

The Supreme Being’s Banquet

The Banquet One day the Supreme Being took it into his head to give a great banquet in his palace of azure. All the virtues were invited. Only the virtues … men he did not ask … only ladies. There were a great many of them, great and small. The lesser...

Nothingness and Infinity

Infinity and Nothingness In In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky, p86, we read: “The next idea which it is necessary to master is the materiality of the universe which is taken in the form of the ray of creation. Everything in this universe can be...