Christ and the Compression of Time

An Image of Christ Perceive how Christ reversed time. The Body. Man falls through time, slowly at first, each minute, each day, each month brimming with change: then faster and faster, till the years flash by indistinguishable, empty of all experience. The Spirit....

Gurdjieff’s Dogs

Dogs Running Free In Chapter I of The Tales, we encounter the story about Karapet of Tiflis and the dog catcher. This is clearly an allegory, but one that may be difficult for the reader to understand unless he is familiar with what the word “dog” symbolized to...

Inner Considering

A Portrait of Inner Considering Inner Considering Inner considering is a form of identifying — which is to say, it is a kind of sleep. It is mechanical through and through, a habitual drain on your energy that owes nothing of consciousness and returns nothing of...

Trouble With Gravity

Gravitational Impossibility The Galaxy Rotation Problem Our knowledge of gravity in space derives from Newton’s “law of gravity” and his laws of motion: We observe that: The inner planets (like Mercury) feel a strong gravitational from the Sun which...

Issue #47

Subscribe Issue #47 January, 2026 “It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.” Ouspensky Dear ALL The start of 2026 has been uniquely unquiet. If the beginning of the year is the Do of an octave, this year’s...

Chief Feature

The Chief Predator Chief Feature The following essay, written by Keith Buzzell, many years ago was forwarded to us by Stephen Aronson.  It is included here with the permission of his wife, Marlena. Stephen noted that, outside of Ouspensky’s account of Chief Feature in...

The Dog Catchers of Tiflis

Gurdjieff’s Tiflis Dog Catcher In The Tales, in respect of dog-catching, we read: “The duty of this barber-surgeon friend of mine consisted in going at a certain time through the town accompanied by an assistant with a specially constructed carriage and seizing...

The Reflection in the Mirror

The Conference of the Birds The epic poem The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq at-Tayr) describes a journey where thirty birds of the world, led by the wise Hoopoe, set out to find the mysterious Simurgh, the legendary “King of the Birds.” One of the most...

A New Perspective on Geology

The Building of Mountains The Electric Earth: A New Perspective on Geology There is a video you may want to watch (link provided below) that challenges our fundamental understanding of geology. Over the last decade, a small but brilliant group of scientists adhering...

Issue #46

Subscribe Issue #46 November, 2025 “Patience is the mother of will. If you have no mother, how can you be born.” Gurdjieff Dear ALL It almost feels as though the year is over, although here in America, we have yet to have yet to navigate Thanksgiving and...