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 …...

Issue #8

Subscribe Issue #8 — January 2022 He who knows what his moon is and does can understand the cosmos.~ Gurdjieff Every Memory is a Lantern Every memory is a lantern, a light, which if remembered and strung together in awareness with all the others connected by...

Lost Herald Issues

Issue #18 by Robin Bloor | December 27, 2022 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 CommentsIssue #18 December 2022 “People's whole lives often consist in paying off the promissory notes of small accidental I's.” ~Gurdjieff Gurdjieff's Birthday? False personality, the false...

The Tales Study Resource

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...

A Non-Atheistic Cosmology

ALL Cosmology, since the advent of the so called “Age of Enlightenment,” has been an attempt to determine the mechanics of the dead body of the Universe. There has been no effort to conceive of, never mind discuss, the possibility of an absolute...

Every Memory is a Lantern

Every memory is a lantern, a light, which if remembered and strung together in awareness with all the others connected by association, will reveal the outline of my life at a higher level. They are remembered because I was present in the moment of imprinting. What did...