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...
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...