by Robin Bloor | Jul 29, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Perhaps the most prevalent area of inexactitude in science is in its use of mathematical modeling. Mathematics is not a science per se. It is a very useful related discipline that provides scientists and engineers with extremely useful tools—statistics being just one...
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 | Jul 28, 2021 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Betimes in the morning say to thyself: “This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. “All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 22, 2021 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #5 — June 2021 “A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.” Control and Influence (Part 1) A number of years ago I had surgery...
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 22, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The question we discuss is: How useful is contemporary science as a source of knowledge? There are good reasons to be cautious about its various theories and proclamations. So many reasons, in fact, that this is a two part article. Let’s begin with the problem...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 17, 2021 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A bearded Indian monk, the third son of a South Indian Brahmin king, appeared one day at the Chinese port of Canton and made his way from there to Nanking, near the mouth of the Yangtze River. He was responding to an invitation from China’s Emperor Wu of the...
by Stephen Aronson | Jun 17, 2021 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
(Part 2 can be found here) The Role of Fear Take a moment now and recall the experience of feeling out of control … realizing you have no influence … recognizing that what will happen depends mostly on luck, that you have no personal control over what will occur …...
by Stephen Aronson | Jun 17, 2021 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
(Click here for Part 1 of this series). As I am exploring this subject, I see in my mind flashes of interactions with people over many years. There are situations I wanted to unfold in specific directions but that met resistance or outright denial from others. The...
by Stephen Aronson | Jun 17, 2021 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
A number of years ago I had surgery for which I agreed to a spinal, rather than a general, anesthetic. In the recovery room I lay on a bed looking at my legs. I had the strange feeling that I was alive, warm, supple from my waist up. Below that there was a sense of...