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...

Issue #36

Subscribe Issue #36 November 2024 “No elephant and no horse, even the donkey is mighty.”~ Saying of Gurdjieff’s Father Hi Last month we announced the new book by Stephen Aronson. It has now, today as I write this, become available. You can buy it by...

The Holy Planet Purgatory

Purgatory, An Artists Conception In The Tales, the Holy Planet Purgatory serves as home to a unique category of beings – the higher being-bodies or “souls” who have achieved remarkable levels of objective reason but nevertheless find themselves in a...

Working On Oneself

The Maze of the Work These are notes (reviewed and organized from a group meeting that asked the question “What is Work on Oneself)?” The Nature of the Work The Work is not about behavioral change it is about psychological change, particularly changing...