Category: Essays

I was just watching an episode of the X-Files in which Agent Mulder is called on to assist in a hostage negotiation with a former FBI agent who appears to be an alien abductee. This is fiction of course, but

I just finished reading a book about Krishnamurti’s last years called The Open Door, and I think this intimate portrayal of the final years of a spiritual teacher illustrates some of the problems involved in spiritual transmission and why we

As I am fond of saying, “the world is about power” – and in a sense, of course, this is logical and inevitable. Even picking up a cup of tea is about power, because in order for this to happen, I

My Gurdjieff teacher, Paul Anderson, felt, I believe, that spiritual teachers should be accorded various forms of recognition, including money, power, status, and, following in the footsteps of Gurdjieff himself, sex.  Except for the last (and sometimes including the last