by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Dec 28, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 26, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Attention Deficit Reality The fundamental challenge of human existence lies not in our circumstances but in our relationship with attention. We live in a perpetual state of dispersed awareness, our energy scattered like coins from a torn pocket. We pay exorbitant...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 29, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
A Zen monk practicing silence In a world filled with constant noise and distractions, which in turn engender a similar level of noise in the inner world, silence is a rare and precious commodity. In the stillness of silence we discover the key to unlocking the path to...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 30, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Votive Candles At a Paris meeting in 1938, Gurdjieff was asked the question: “How should one pray?” He replied: In our solar system certain substances emanate from the sun and the planets, in the same way as those emanated by the earth, making contact at...