by Robin Bloor | Feb 18, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Ancient Sanskrit Texts In The Tales, Gurdjieff writes about Kundalini as follows: “Saint Buddha among other things explained to the beings of Pearl-land how and to what part of the body of their ancestors the said famous organ Kundabuffer had been attached. “He told...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 6, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
In recent months, we have found ourselves running multiple reading groups for The Tales. Naturally, in every meeting one of our number took notes of the discussions that followed the reading. We also posted the video record of the meeting to this website. Several...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 9, 2021 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Where our knowledge is lacking, in respect of the real world activity Beelzebub mentions, we need to educate ourselves. Beelzebub speaks of ancient civilizations, including Babylon and Egypt, where there is a partial historical record. He covers Greece and Rome, where...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 28, 2021 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
“Philology provides a better path to the truth than philosophy.” ~ George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff At the beginning of The Tales, not on the first page, but actually before the first page on the “copyright page” we find the following paragraph: Original...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 22, 2021 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
As we noted in the first posting in this series, this discussion of the revision of The Tales is not intended to be a critical take-down of the Gurdjieff Foundation’s publication of it. Mme de Salzmann ordered the revision, and it was not published until after her...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 3, 2021 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
There is an old joke that did the rounds when the first English Russian translation computer was announced. Someone who was given access to it decided to put in an English phrase, translate it into Russian and then immediately translate the Russian words back to...