by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 17, 2022 | Essay
From out of the blue, someone has criticized me. There was malice in their tone of voice, a wish to hurt. I am disturbed and offended. If I can not contact anything real in myself, one of three things is likely to happen: 1) I will ignore the whole thing, and the...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 17, 2022 | Memory
It is difficult for people today (or even then) to understand how a small number of guards could keep a large number of concentration camp prisoners in thrall. The explanation lies in the experiences which all the prisoners underwent. From being transported by cattle...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
About Mr. Gurdjieff This most remarkable man brought Jesus’ esoteric teaching about conscience back from the obscurity that 1900 years of wiseacring and self-calming had made of it. And he did it as service to the Higher. As my teacher, Mrs. Staveley said of...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Mrs. Annie-Lou Staveley was a remarkable woman, fearless, intelligent and kind. She helped many people find a way to live more in accord with their conscience. Here is her photo and her quote “I almost forgot the most important thing. Don’t be afraid. No...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lou at age 71 I was born in Chicago in 1942 to two secular Jewish Holocaust refugees. I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland in a Gentile neighborhood. Lou at age 4 I went “home” to college in 1960 (Reed College in Portland, Oregon), and...
