by Robin Bloor | Oct 5, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Domain of Automatic Thought The Siren Song of Automatized Thought The Tales is not a comforting read. It was written “to-corrode-without-mercy-all-the-rubbish-accumulated-during-the-ages-in-human-mentation”. Among the many observations Gurdjieff...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 4, 2025 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Struggle of the Verb and the Noun A Noun or A Verb To name God a noun is to build a cathedral around a shadow. It is to mistake the vessel for the sea, to worship the graven image of a force whose nature is flow. A noun is a tomb, a fixed...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 24, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #44 August, 2025 “Impressions are more important than edible food.” ~Gurdjieff Dear ALL In the English-German Tales Study group that currently meets each week (on Tuesdays) we have noticed that the English and German version of the Tales...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 24, 2025 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
In Search of the Irresistible Force Modern science is derided by Gurdjieff throughout The Tales. He refers unsympathetically to “sorry scientists,” “scientists of new formation,” “contemporary terrestrial ‘sorry scientists.’...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 24, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Walking darkly into the Future This is one of the passages from The Tales that impacts all of us sooner or later. Later usually… “… the personal observations and investigations I later specially made, regarding this said strange impulse present in them,...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 22, 2025 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Struggle of the Self Tao Te Ching #16 Empty yourself of everything.Let the mind become still.The ten thousand things rise and fallwhile the Self watches their return. They grow and flourishand then return to the source.Returning to the source is...