by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF The Life Cycle of Groups In addition, there is a life cycle for all groups. Groups are born, have a youth, a maturity, an old age, and they die. Extinction may be delayed if participants understand group...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Roles and Levels of Development G. Bennett explores the question of different levels of development that can be found in a human community, including the spiritual community, which he classifies as...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF A Little History In Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, Gurdjieff proposes the Sacred process Antkooano. “And all cosmic truths usually become known to all on these planets, thanks to the fact that the...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Remaining in or Leaving a Group Of course, “every stick has two ends”. Involution and evolution wrap around each other like a caduceus. What goes up can certainly also come down. When the Higher meets with...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Help into the Future? If the essence of the teaching is understood practically, then one understands how to generalize the principles to different situations without losing the essential core. Gurdjieff...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Shocks One aspect of Gurdjieff’s methods that can be problematic when imitated by his followers, was his approach to introducing “shocks”, individually or collectively, what he called “stepping on corns”,...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Rise of the Technician Unfortunately, given time, more often than not, leadership of most movements is eventually taken over by technician-specialists who may actually exile true initiates whose presence...
by Stephen Aronson | Jul 10, 2024 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], Downloadable PDF Conclusion We have been exploring the interaction of three basic factors: The Work, the group leader, and the pupil. At any given moment, each may carry any of the three fundamental forces in relationship...
by Robin Bloor | May 12, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #31 May 2024 “The whole Work is really a cosmos – everything in it depends on and explains everything else. It is only when one catches a glimpse of the whole that one feels an enormous wonder at a great purpose.”~ Rodney Collin Hi This...
by Robin Bloor | May 11, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Artist’s Impression Of A Galaxy in Formation In In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky (p205), Gurdjieff explains the seven cosmoses with the following words: “Seven cosmoses, taken together in their relation to one another, alone represent a...