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...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
You see that little stone on the shelf there? I’ll tell you about it. It was five summers ago. Three guys in white brought me a sack of barley to grind. We fell to talking, and I asked them if they had eaten. They said no, and I dished them up some lentils I had made....
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Spiritual light, Light from Above, is literally awesome. When it shines on me and I am prepared to not identify with what I see, it can transform me. Nothing else has its power. In the Gurdjieff teaching, this seeing is called “correctly conducted...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
. Paranoia Paranoia, the dungeon of the prison of psychosis, offers instantaneous relief from all psychic pain, and a simple—if horrible—world view: I am being eaten, and I must prevent that—–in...
