by Robin Bloor | Sep 1, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Petrified Soul Click link for Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4. This extract from Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ says what Gurdjieff says with different words elsewhere. It is worth reading… …it must be said that in...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 1, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
The Monk and The Angel Our emotions play a key role in our understanding of the truth of a situation. When we are negative, our emotions distort our perception of reality and make it difficult for us to see things clearly. They inject a kind of prejudice in our...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 1, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Ibn Arabi (an artist’s impression) The Ocean of Love The Ocean of Love is vast and deep, It has no shore, no bottom, no end. The waves of love crash against the shore of the heart, And the soul is swept away in a torrent of passion. The Ocean of Love is filled...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 1, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 6, 2023 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
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): ...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Reflections, The Lost Herald
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....
by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2023 | Issue, The Lost Herald
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,...