Issue #26

Subscribe Issue #26 August/September 2023 “Common sense mellowed and experienced is wisdom; and wisdom in its ripeness is beauty.”~ Orage “Hi Many things make it impossible for us to perceive reality directly. We have limits. Our hearing operates...

Four Forces of the Universe

Artist’s Idea of an Atom According to the current models of Physics, four fundamental forces govern the universe. They are listed below, along with a numerical value which represents their supposed relative strength : – The Strong Nuclear Force (SNF): ...

Becoming Aware of Genuine Being Duty

The Simple Life Is Not So Simple We are in debt, every one of us, to the people who brought the Work to us, and to those who brought it to them and to others too, along a line that stretches out into the dusty past. AFTER the captain had gone, Beelzebub glanced at his...

How Essence Relates to Personality

The Struggle of Essence In exploring Essence and Personality, we encounter the first great mystery about Man: the duality of his existence. Man is composed of two parts. You are born Essence, a pure and innocent being, and Personality accumulates as life unfolds....

The Nature of The Tao

A Meditating Statue The Tao Te Ching Chapter 39 The highest good is like water,Which benefits all thingsAnd does not compete with them.It stays in the lowly placesThat all men disdain.Therefore it is near to the Tao. The Tao is like a well:It is always there,But it is...

Issue #25

Subscribe Issue #25 July/August 2023 “Never visit someone only to pass the time.”~ Gurdjieff “Hi I’m fascinated by the idea that the media represents (or perhaps is) the collective thought processes, both smart and dumb, of mankind. Looking at...

Issue #24

Subscribe Issue #24 June/July 2023 “The teaching is outside of all religious dogma, outside of all politics. Never talk about such.”~ Gurdjieff   Hi Now that the 2nd and 3rd Series Study Groups have completed examining Gurdjieff’s later books,...

1 Corinthians 13

The Inner Shrine I Corinthians 13 In the text below we have substituted the word “charity” with the word “love” – meaning love in the sense of “agape.” Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love, I...

The Ruben Carter Story

Ruben Carter After His Release From Prison [The Less Told Story of The Hurricane] Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the former champion boxer spent almost 20 years in prison and came close to being executed for a crime he didn’t commit. You may be familiar with the song about...

Kundabuffer and Old Age

An Aging Cossack [The Disease of Tomorrow – The Tales, p362] This is perhaps one of the most poignant parts of the Tales – especially for readers who are no longer young. “Before continuing to tell you more about the activities of the Very Saintly Ashiata...