Category Archives: Philosophy & Psychology

Cascading Connections

Centering on the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, In Bohemia Eva and I visited Prague as tourists for five days in late July this year. This was time enough to sample only a small part what this great city has to … Continue reading

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Taking Leave of Some Teachers

Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Others The last name of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a household word in my father’s family, along with that of Gurdjieff’s major disciple, Peter Demianovich Ouspensky. I remember hearing these two strange sounding names from the mid-1940s … Continue reading

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