​ Q. When I started meditation I realised that I had so many expectations from everyone and from life in general, but it’s pointless and leads to lots of problems. I don’t know if you have any advice on how to avoid such situations in future as it causes a lot of pain for me and those around me! A. You have yourself realised the most important clue --expectations. My observation of you and your characteristic mode of interacting with the world is that you are an energetic,

Q. As someone who has had experience of working in those groups, it seems to me that most people who utilise Gurdjieff’s theory seem to be looking from a purely psychological frame. A. You're right about the psychological frame. It hit me also last night, when I was having a think about the octave & law of three, that all contemporary understanding turns the theory into a tool for personal use, for Me. The whole message seems to reduce it to a psychological tool for people t

Q. Since you suggested reading up on Gurdjieff, I've been working on it now for the better part of 2 days. But I think something has been missing in Gurdjieff's world view. There is no love!! No sense of play!!! i.e. ( joy in something that is done for the sake of itself), a gesture. For me this is the essence of the creative impulse. Can math and ratios describe your "Love" for the ones that are dear to you? A. Well I'm impressed! Working away at something you find baffling

Q. You implied that real understanding or Knowledge “means engaging with number, the ultimate abstract symbol, but not as a mathematician--as a metaphysician”, and said “ Look at the starry sky on a moonless night. Right there is an introduction to number……. And, if you can hold silent, it is a touch of higher emotion.” I'm not sure I can directly connect, but nevertheless there is something very familiar. For you it's the moonless starry night for me it's the cool ocean fog