I Teach How to Cook, Not What to Cook, by Ben Bennett I am very grateful to Ben Bennett, for writing a thorough and balanced overview of his father’s long search for transformation. Beginning with J.G. Bennett’s extraordinary out of body experience during World War I, Ben tells a complete tale of his father’s spiritual … Read more
I keep bumping up against how I’d like to be and how I am. Recently, I wrote about my experience of “passing through” into a moment of connection, and about a dream showing me how my attitude creates my world. Alongside these wonderful insights of how I could be, I’m aware of how the smallest … Read more
I’m thinking about letting go for Lent. Yes, I’ll give up my usual things like coffee, sweets, alcohol, but I’m trying to taste something different. I received a clue from a dream the other night. I was in a familiar setting, alone in my Respiratory department at the hospital. It was a quiet day, peaceful. … Read more
They weren’t just passing through. One of the kids who had grown up at Claymont, an intentional Work community, had brought a couple of friends for the weekend. They’d traveled to tend young trees along Bullskin Run which traverses the front field of Claymont’s property. Around four hundred saplings were planted a few years ago … Read more
Feeling center. It’s taken me a long time to become aware of feelings. I mean that there is sensation in my chest area even when there’s no big emotion going on. Yeah, I know it’s not the same for everyone. But that’s how it was/is for me. My focus is usually inside my head or … Read more
How to work is the question. Last week we looked at why to work, but that didn’t really answer the question of how? And how does Work affect the world we live in today? For starters, my teacher J.G. Bennett looked at the world with a long view. In eons, or at the least, hundreds … Read more
Why work—what is it all for, anyway? What was Gurdjieff or for that matter, Bennett, on about? How does this body of ideas and practices relate to the world today? Someone asked me a question along these lines last week. Honestly, an answer did not come trippingly off my tongue. And I wondered about that … Read more
I sit in front of this blank page, not knowing what will flow onto it. It’s not always like this. Usually an idea forms before I get to my desk. But today, in order for something to come, I must be available. Something wants to manifest through me. But I do not know what it … Read more
There’s something about grief—I’ve never really thought much about. Our culture tends to ignore grief, as if it is something one must get past and leave behind. Somehow, we think getting back to “normal” is the answer. We tend to look at grief only in terms of losing a loved one or experiencing life-altering events. … Read more
There’s a knot in me. More and more, I’m becoming aware of it. I’ve been up against this before when I was introduced to my own Chief Feature. That did not taste good, yet there were moments when I experienced something delicious in the ingredients. This is similar, but different. This knot is also deep … Read more