by Robin Bloor | Jul 18, 2022 | The Lost Herald
A Detail of the Trogoautoegocrat, on Earth When I first encountered the concept Trogoautoegocrat I thought of it simplistically. Sure, reciprocal feeding. Sure everything feeds on something. And that’s (maybe) how the whole universe works. Bear and Salmon The...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 18, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
A Steamship Captain — as Pogossian supposedly became In Meetings With Remarkable Men, the chapter on Pogossian begins with the paragraph: Sarkis Pogossian, or as he is now called, Mr. X, is at the present time the owner of several ocean steamers, one of which,...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 18, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Mural of a Hopi Vision Child,High aloft you are held to the dawn,Naked,To feel the sun’s first rays.The welcoming god will come,LeapingOut of the under-world,To greet you, to bathe, to engulf youChild,Straining the brown arms of your...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 18, 2022 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Attention of the Eagle Beyond Conditioning: The Mystery of Interior Sight There is a deep level of mystery that is discernible even in ordinary life. We can occasionally realize “what we are thinking,” occasionally recognize we are “lying to ourselves,” see our...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 29, 2022 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Isssue #13 — June 2022 We always use more energy than is necessary, by using unnecessary muscles, by allowing thoughts to revolve and by reacting too much with feelings. ~ Gurdjieff The Circles of the Yezidis We are all Yezidis.According to Gurdjieff in...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 27, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Geese Ascending From A Lake Far in the northwest stands a house,High is its tower in the clouds.Embroidered curtains are at the windows.The tower rises in three steps,and from the tower floats a song… A sad songwith a sad lute playing beside it.Who can the singer...
by Stephen Aronson | Jun 26, 2022 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Artist’s Impression of the Hypnotized Mind Even in our modern age, the actual mechanics of the phenomenon of hypnosis remain in the realm of theory and speculation, even while the phenomenon itself is extensively used for both good and ill in arenas as diverse...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Melek Taûs, the Peacock Angel of the Yezidis We are all Yezidis. According to Gurdjieff in Meetings With Remarkable Men, if you draw a circle around us, we cannot escape from it. The world we were born into began to draw such a circle around us from our first moment....
by Robin Bloor | Jun 21, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
I Robot, I Formatory Recently the news broke that a senior software engineer at Google had concluded that Google AI chatbot, LaMDA, was “sentient.” LaMDA is an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—it is software designed to...
by Robin Bloor | May 22, 2022 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Isssue #12 — May 2022 We cannot remember ourselves because it is only with the mind that we try. ~ Gurdjieff Kiss The Ground I do not often encounter documentaries that are both enlightening and informative. Kiss The Ground, which you can find on Netflix, is...