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...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 3, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Temple Duties (Text taken from the Toomer Version of The Tales. For PDF copies of this document, contact Gurdjieff Heritage Society.) Glancing up at his grandfather somewhat sadly, Hassein replied thoughtfully, “My dear grandfather, your talk about ships has given...
by Robin Bloor | Apr 28, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Jean Toomer at his Desk A very old version of The Tales, or better put, a partial draft version of The Tales has emerged. It is an edited version of parts of The Tales that Jean Toomer worked on back in the 1920s. It was rescued from waste-bin or fire and personally...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 24, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
In Trouble in a Diving Suit In the chapter, The Arch-preposterous, (p158), we read the following account of how Beelzebub almost died while assisting Gornahoor Harharkh in one of his experiments. It is notable, for many reasons, not least of which for the description...