The Hasnamuss

Holocaust Memorial Beelzebub explains the nature of a Hasnamuss with the following words. “In general, those independent individuals are called and defined by the word Hasnamuss in whom, among what are called ‘Individual-impulses,’ a certain ‘some- thing’ arises,...

A Meditation on Movement

Moving Meditation: Tai Chi Quito, Ecuador February 26, 2017 My body is walking down a hall. Who is walking? How is there walking? How does this body move itself? Why does the time schedule of the event at this moment determine this motion? What else would be more...

The King of The Wood

A Witness of the King… Who does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the...

Issue #9

Subscribe Issue #9 — February 2022 Men have mind and women have feelings more developed. Men must feel and women must think—both must be fused into one for real understanding. ~ Gurdjieff The Hippocratic Oath The Asklepieion is an ancient medical center on the island...

Kundalini—Kundabuffer

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...

The March of Plasma

Called the Iris Nebula because of its vague resemblance to a blue Iris flower. The picture, courtesy of the Hubble telescope, is of the Iris nebula—known as NGC 7023 to its intimate friends. It is roughly 1,300 light-years distant, and lives in the constellation...

Self-Health—The Hippocratic Oath

The Asklepieion on the island of  Kos. The Asklepieion is an ancient medical center on the island of Kos, that dates from the 3rd century BC. It was built in honor of the god of health and medicine, Asklepios, following the death of the famous Greek physician,...

The Ears of King Midas

The donkey’s ears are difficult to conceal  The god Pan was once so foolish as to compare his music with the divine music of Apollo. He even went so far as to challenge Apollo to a trial of music. Apollo accepted at once. So Tmolus, the mountain-god agreed to...

Issue #7

Subscribe Issue #7 — September 2021 “Sincerity is the key to self-knowledge and to be sincere with oneself brings great suffering.  ~ Gurdjieff Control and Influence (Part 3) The Role of Fear Take a moment now and recall the experience of feeling out of control …...