A Journey To The Self

Communing With The Self A Journey To The Self “Is self-observation a moment of accepting oneself, or does that come afterwards?” Self-observation, in its purest form, must be uncritical, a dispassionate witnessing to the inner workings of our being. It is the patient...

The Cost of Being

The Challenge of Being The Cost of Being In the quiet of the morning, When the dew weeps unseen, The soul whispers its longing: “Will you rise, or will you dream?” Cheap are the songs sung in comfort, The hands that labor not the clay. But costly is the fire that...

Instability of Man’s Reason

The Instability of Reason Hamolinadir’s speech (The Tales p335) is worth reading and rereading. “The notice announced that the reporter had taken as the theme of his report the ‘Instability-of-Human-Reason.’ “Thereupon, this terrestrial friend of mine first expatiated...

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...