Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff- perspectives on inner work

The Nativity Fontenay Abbey, France We come in this life to what is essentially an impossible set of conditions, where everything...

The Flagellation of Christ Fontenay Abbey, France Jan. 23. After writing the essay on the importance on establishing one’s undi...

Cathedral, Lyon Well then, dear readers. We come back around to the question of this fragmentary sense of Being. We must study ...

Cathedral, Lyon Make no mistake about it. These are not “esoteric”, secret, obscure, or apocryphal matters. You have within yoursel...

The Blessed Virgin Mary The Cloisters, New York Of course, we always return to the question of what can effect this unificati...

Cathedral, Lyon Coming back to the question of why it is so difficult to come to an inner sense of oneself, why one doesn’t “work.”...

Eve and the Serpent, the Cloisters, Manhattan “I do not see that I am like a puppet, a machine set in motion by influences from ...

Statue of Mary from the Cloisters, Manhattan “…from behind the chaos, I may feel the action of a vibration that is wholly differ...

Capitals from the Cloisters, Manhattan “…in practicing this I see that a very close relation is created between my body and this f...

Capitals from the Cloisters, Manhattan A perfect idiot is an individual who completely embodies the confluence of truth within t...

Sculpture from the Cloisters, Manhattan A moment comes when I experience a feeling of total solitude, when I no longer know how ...

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