Month

The last year of G.I. Gurdjieff’s life was spent in Paris, teaching his English and French students. Two of those students were J.G. Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett. Idiots in Paris contains both of their diaries for that period of their life. It is a very interesting read for several reasons.

This meeting’s exercises and meditation will focus on the body’s intelligence and how we might understand it better. Human beings are comprised of several intelligences, one of which is the instinctual intelligence of the body. When you throw a ball, it hits the target naturally. The body types this sentence as the mind thinks about the words. It regulates your blood pressure, breathing, and stress responses. This in

While I was away over the New Year’s holiday, I finished a very good book called Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine. Animals experience danger and stress, such as being attacked by predators, though they never show signs of trauma. Only domesticated and imprisoned animals show PTSD and the like. Why then are humans so easily traumatized?