by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Help into the Future? If the essence of the teaching is understood practically, then one understands how to generalize the principles to different situations without losing the essential core. Gurdjieff...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Shocks One aspect of Gurdjieff’s methods that can be problematic when imitated by his followers, was his approach to introducing “shocks”, individually or collectively, what he called “stepping on corns”,...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Rise of the Technician Unfortunately, given time, more often than not, leadership of most movements is eventually taken over by technician-specialists who may actually exile true initiates whose presence...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Conclusion We have been exploring the interaction of three basic factors: The Work, the group leader, and the pupil. At any given moment, each may carry any of the three fundamental forces in relationship...
by Stephen Aronson | Oct 24, 2022 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Perils of Perfectionism Writ Large The Problem What is wrong with striving for perfection? Aren’t we encouraged to strive to do our best, to always improve, to learn from our mistakes, to try not to commit the same errors a second time? As a psychotherapist, I...