Robin Bloor is a student of Rina Hands, who herself was a direct disciple of Gurdjieff. He is the director of the Austin Gurdjieff Society in Texas (USA) and author of many books, including “To Fathom the Gist: Volume 1 – Approaches to the Writings of...
Look up in the sky on any evening and you might see a long series of lights traveling in an oddly straight line across the sky—odd as in, “there are no straight lines in Nature.” You have just glimpsed the Starlink satellites, orchestrated and owned by Elon Musk,...
In this excerpt of OM C. Parkin’s partly autobiographical book ‘The ‘Birth of the Lion’ OM gives insides into the meaning of letting go and finally the death of the ego-mind. It is all about something to which you have been completely blind, something...
When OM C. Parkin founded Gut Saunstorf Monastery many years ago, it was quite natural that dark rooms would have a place here, as he was aware of the healing and transformative potential of a darkness retreat. For guests, a darkness retreat is a very special...
This profound text is an invitation and support to reflect on the most important question of the inner path: “Who am I?” That which is waiting for you, is the great Self-inquiry. It starts with the question: “Who”? and ends with the question:...
It was in the year 2000 that OM C. Parkin bought the dilapidated manor house, with its 9,000 m² of wooded parkland, about an hour from Hamburg. His intention was to give spiritual seekers and his own students a permanent place to learn and to live out the ONE...
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