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...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 7, 2021 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #1 — April 2021 “There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid forwith a dissatisfaction.” The Gurdjieff Legacy Gurdjieff has no precedent. This becomes crystal clear when we step back and take a comprehensive view of his...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 7, 2021 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #2 — May 2021 “Like what it does not like” ~ Gurdjieff Kundabuffer Some believe that kundabuffer was implanted by an operation carried out on mankind at the very beginning—when three-brained beings first peopled the planet Earth. It’s an...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 7, 2021 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #3 — May 2021 “Emotions are the windows of the soul, colored glass through which the soul regards the world.” ~ Gurdjieff A Little More About Kundabuffer Aside from the last post on this topic, the only times we are aware of where Gurdjieff...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 6, 2021 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #4 — June 2021 “You already think you can do. To get rid of this conviction is more difficult than anything else for a man.” ~ Gurdjieff The Language Problem When we first read about the Work we tend to ignore much of what Gurdjieff says....
by Robin Bloor | Jun 3, 2021 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
When we first read about the Work we tend to ignore much of what Gurdjieff says. The simple fact is that some of what he says is hard to believe and some of it is hard to take in. A good example of this is what he says about language, that is our language, that is the...