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...

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...