by Robin Bloor | Feb 23, 2026 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Dogs Running Free In Chapter I of The Tales, we encounter the story about Karapet of Tiflis and the dog catcher. This is clearly an allegory, but one that may be difficult for the reader to understand unless he is familiar with what the word “dog” symbolized to...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 6, 2026 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff’s Tiflis Dog Catcher In The Tales, in respect of dog-catching, we read: “The duty of this barber-surgeon friend of mine consisted in going at a certain time through the town accompanied by an assistant with a specially constructed carriage and seizing...
by Robin Bloor | Nov 23, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Interweaving Highways The Tales embodies multiple interweaving themes and arcs. In factual books there is usually a single linear theme. In fictional work there can be several interweaving themes with a sub-plot here and there, but it is rare to have more than three...
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 | 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 | Jul 7, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Creation, Perhaps Okidanokh is one of the more confusing words that Gurdjieff uses in The Tales. He refers to it as the “Omnipresent-Active-Element”, clearly declaring it to be everywhere and playing an active role in the Universe. It plays the pivotal...