How was Daumal forged? This generous and visionary poet, an essentialist who was brave and selfless, ready to tear the veil of reality to touch being and share his shock with us; how was he created?
The conversations that gave substance and life to the book The Real Remains Invisible: Conversations with Olivier Laignel de Salzmann took place between 2003 and 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The book was published in 2005 in Colombia and was first made available to the members of the Teaching groups in Buenos Aires while Olivier…
Through poetry, the spirit finds a space to express its longings, doubts, fears, and revelations, moving beyond the everyday and the ordinary mind.
Author: Ellen Reynard – To wait is
to ask myself
what is in front
of me in this
very moment—
to write this poem,
perhaps
to stroke the cat.
Author: David Pinto – I could have been that seed
just as I could have been that tree
I could have been those hands
that keep the touch
Author: Germánico Pinto — An approach to the Enneagram and the Lord’s Prayer. This text explores the structure of the prayer and how different schemes and interpretations allow for the mapping of the Lord’s Prayer and the Enneagram, based on an approach to the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff.
We were at a retreat at the San Patricio retreat house. In those days, the Cumbayá area was not as populated as it is now. There was a lot of nature and open country; you could walk freely without restrictions, without walls or highways to block the way.
Vicente had asked for a…
Annette Courtenay Mayers has devoted her life to serve the work of Mr. Gurdjieff. She is an active member of the Gurdjieff Society in London. For many years she has been a Movement’s instructor and has been invited to work sessions of the Fourth Way throughout Europe, United States and South America to share Gurdjieff’s…
Author: Gladys Jimeno – Philokalia means “love of beauty”, and these two volumes take us through a web of spiritual experiences on a path that chose silence, and those lived and understood solitary experiences have told us from soul to soul, from experience to experience and thus penetrates the seekers touched by that way so…
Author: Dorothea Dooling – If forgiving were equivalent to forgetting, it would make it more possible to believe that forgiving is indeed an act that human beings are capable of initiating, since forgetting comes quite easily to humankind; but in fact we are incapable of that large act of acceptance and exchange unless we are…
Author: Gabriela Suárez – With its beautiful bright electric green colors, its wings flapping rapidly, it held itself in the air like an acrobat defying gravity, pecking flowers while I stood very still, living this encounter.
Author: Germánico Pinto – how do I maintain an openness so that this impression is not trapped by any of my parts, to not be owned?