by Robin Bloor | Apr 27, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #22 April/May 2023 “Three parts to every job: preparation, doing it, cleaning up.”~ Jane Heap Hi There is a difference in the public holidays between the US and Europe which, in my view, favors Europe. In the US, aside from Christmas Day...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 25, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
G. I. Gurdjieff Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ has a different character to the First Series, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, which has a dense writing style that intentionally employs the grammar of associations in order to pepper the reader...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
An Alpine Guest House The Guest House Being human you are as a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy or depression or a meanness,or some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome them all and entertain them!Even if they are a gang of...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Mar Saba Monastery – A Place of Contemplation Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises I’m very rarely moved to review a book on The Work, but I have spent time recently taking a long look at Joseph Azize’s Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Webb: A Telescope With A View The James Webb Space Telescope (WST) is the largest, most powerful, and, at a price of about $10 billions, the most expensive telescope ever. For about a year, since Feb 14, 2022 to be exact, it’s been taking snapshots and reporting...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #21 March 2023 “Lies and fears — this is the atmosphere in which an ordinary man lives.” ~Gurdjieff Hi For me, March is a month dominated by Lent. It begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls either in February or March. On that Wednesday, Christians...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 28, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
Subscribe Issue #20 February 2023 “With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.” ~Gurdjieff Reflections of Jane Heap The just-published book of Sayings From The Gurdjieff Work includes a chapter of...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 28, 2023 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Veins of Mankind Increasing evidence suggests that the universe is interconnected by plasma flows, ionic matter that moves between galactic clusters, galaxies, solar systems, and even between planets and moons. This view challenges the long-standing assumption...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 27, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff in pensive mood. In his excellent book, Heart Without Measure, Ravi Ravindra writes: “Madame de Salzmann told of an incident, late in Gurdjieff’s life, when she came upon him in a place in Switzerland. He was sitting, looking very sad and discouraged....
by Robin Bloor | Feb 27, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
Sketch of Jane Heap (from photo) The just-published book of Sayings From The Gurdjieff Work includes a chapter of maxims from Jane Heap, most of which were gathered from here notes. Jane had a memorable and often profound way of expressing herself. Here are twenty...