Entries from July 2008

suggestions about Self remembering.

July 29, 2008

Some suggestions about Self remembering
Assume your subject, yourself, is a person you know absolutely nothing about, even if you are an an old-hand or so-called expert like me.
It has to be absolutely fresh every time. Consider every moment like you are witnessing the birth of an entire new universe and you will be on […]

the Fragmented Self . . . Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

July 29, 2008

Here I am setting in Ojai, gazing out the window at an expanse of green leaves.
The air was smoky last night, due to the large fire about fifty miles east of here.
Gazing at the trees I am reminded of talks with Krishnamurti, under the Oaks here in Ojai.
K. (as he is known) reminded us […]

Learning to “See”

July 29, 2008

Nancy Langmuir, the leader of my Gurdjieff Work group taught me how to “See”. I know that now. She would constantly challenge me to face the Unknowable, the parts of myself hidden in shadow. Although I at first found this alien and terrifying, later I learned that it was the first step in developing […]