Control and Influence (Part 3)

(Part 2 can be found here) The Role of Fear Take a moment now and recall the experience of feeling out of control … realizing you have no influence … recognizing that what will happen depends mostly on luck, that you have no personal control over what will occur …...

Control and Influence (Part 2)

(Click here for Part 1 of this series). As I am exploring this subject, I see in my mind flashes of interactions with people over many years. There are situations I wanted to unfold in specific directions but that met resistance or outright denial from others. The...

Control and Influence (Part 1)

A number of years ago I had surgery for which I agreed to a spinal, rather than a general, anesthetic. In the recovery room I lay on a bed looking at my legs. I had the strange feeling that I was alive, warm, supple from my waist up. Below that there was a sense of...

Issue #1

Subscribe Issue #1 — April 2021 “There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid forwith a dissatisfaction.” The Gurdjieff Legacy Gurdjieff has no precedent. This becomes crystal clear when we step back and take a comprehensive view of his...

Issue #2

Subscribe Issue #2 — May 2021 “Like what it does not like” ~ Gurdjieff Kundabuffer Some believe that kundabuffer was implanted by an operation carried out on mankind at the very beginning—when three-brained beings first peopled the planet Earth. It’s an...

Issue #3

Subscribe Issue #3 — May 2021 “Emotions are the windows of the soul, colored glass through which the soul regards the world.” ~ Gurdjieff A Little More About Kundabuffer Aside from the last post on this topic, the only times we are aware of where Gurdjieff...