Issue #39

Subscribe Issue #39 Feb 2025 “Roll your triangle.” ~Jane Heap Hi In Roman times, February was, to some degree, a month of purification. On the 15th February – not the Ides of February, by the way, which was the 13th of February (the Ides meaning “the...

The Amino Acid Story

The Structure of Amino Acids How life formed on planet Earth is not known by science. The fossil record shows the existence of Archaea and Bacteria in rocks that are very old. It also suggests that there was a “prebiotic world” when the Earth was just...

The Shadowed Self

Acceptance of the Shadows of the Self A chill wind whips through the bare branches, and the fire crackles in the hearth. Awake and aware, you survey the moment. A question hangs in the air: “Is self-observation a moment of accepting oneself, or does that come...

Belcultassi

Belcultassi and Friends in honest Discourse “My elucidation of all those inner and outer being-impulses and manifestations which caused this Belcultassi then to found that truly great society of ordinary three-brained beings—a society which in its time was throughout...

Where There is Beauty

The Beauty of the Lake Where There is Beauty… Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.When something is right, something else is wrong.Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.It has been like this since the beginning.How could it be otherwise now?Wanting...

Issue #38

Subscribe Issue #38 Jan 2025 “It is necessary to have had all illusions and all disillusions.”~ Gurdjieff Hi A long time ago, the year began in March. That was until Roman King Numa Pompilius (713–673 BCE), added January and February to a previously...

The Bacterial Realm

The Hidden Realm The Hidden World That Shapes Our Lives Bacteria are essential to life on Earth.  They are found in virtually every environment imaginable, from the depths of the ocean to the human gut. They play critical roles in maintaining ecological balance and...

A Journey To The Self

Communing With The Self A Journey To The Self “Is self-observation a moment of accepting oneself, or does that come afterwards?” Self-observation, in its purest form, must be uncritical, a dispassionate witnessing to the inner workings of our being. It is the patient...

The Cost of Being

The Challenge of Being The Cost of Being In the quiet of the morning, When the dew weeps unseen, The soul whispers its longing: “Will you rise, or will you dream?” Cheap are the songs sung in comfort, The hands that labor not the clay. But costly is the fire that...

Instability of Man’s Reason

The Instability of Reason Hamolinadir’s speech (The Tales p335) is worth reading and rereading. “The notice announced that the reporter had taken as the theme of his report the ‘Instability-of-Human-Reason.’ “Thereupon, this terrestrial friend of mine first expatiated...