Gurdjieff | Be Present First

Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky

Man in the Image of God

As a rule, we either don’t think about how identity will organize itself without a body, or we assume we will be given a soul after death in the same way we were given a body at birth. But to believe that a soul can be given is a misunderstanding of what a soul is…

Being Present, Conscious Evolution, Gurdjieff, Lying, Ouspensky, Self-Remembering

Lying and Choosing to Believe

The work we are involved in is long and it is normal to occasionally fall into a state of apathy about our progress,..

Artificial Intelligence, Being Present, Esotericism, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky

AI and the Mechanics of Consciousness

Thinking may make us human, but it doesn’t make us conscious.

Gurdjieff, Other People, Self-Remembering

Shakespeare, Gurdjieff, and the Idea of Good and Evil

When Shakespeare created Iago, he imagined a character that had never been seen in literature: a brilliant and sophisticated devil…

Being Present, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Politics, Self-Remembering

What Now? (The Collective Existential Crisis of November 9th 2016)

A couple of weeks ago I met with a friend who is a psychologist, and she described an encounter with another psychologist on November ninth, the day after the American elections…