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...
by Lou Gottlieb | Apr 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It came to me suddenly yesterday, while I was driving, that I was living life pretending to have a whole spirit. But the truth was that my spirit was broken, and it had been broken my whole life. The breaking had happened in my last life, the one that had ended in a...
