by Lou Gottlieb | Sep 16, 2022 | Story
Dear ____ . . . . I have a story to tell you. I’ll try and tell it here. This is my first attempt, so it may be confused in places. This morning, as I was carrying my stuff from my motel room to the car, I had a clear vision, and I saw a little boy with a folded...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 23, 2022 | Memory
In 1988, as a then-17-year-member of a group studying and trying to practice the ideas of the man George Gurdjieff, I had a revelation during a meditation session: I had once seen and been seen by a man who could only have been Jesus. That same day I wrote an account...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 21, 2022 | Memory
The Holocaust was about the death of conscience, the deliberate murder of conscience—and from it, the Germans accrued a hideous karmic debt, a debt that still remains largely unpaid. It’s like the Chinese invading and destroying Tibet, their conscience. ...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 20, 2022 | Essay
I believe that I have money, a car, a house, and things. I believe that I have relatives, friends, a partner, relationships, children I believe that I have the correct view of myself. That I am a good person. I believe that I need the possessions I have. I...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
This actually happened to me and was impossible to forget I was a merchant in Jerusalem. I sold tall clay jars and wine in tall jars in a narrow stall on a big street of such stalls. My business was a profitable one, I made a good living, and I enjoyed my work. I...