On the Nature of Words, Part II

The search for a path through life

I come to this conversation having conducted an experiment for the last nine months, every single day, where I record a podcast, attempting to speak from the moment, and transmit the essence of inner work in the moment to others through a recording.

That recording project is, of course, The Morning Five, which most readers of this space are familiar with.

In order to explain exactly what that project was originally intended for (and its intention and aim have not changed) I'll discuss its origin first; and then I'll discuss some of the things I’ve learned through this deep study of the action of language when speaking in the moment.

Last March I was on the phone with a close friend charged with updating the website for the New York Gurdjieff Foundation. Some private conversations about that took place, but what can be publicly reported is that when I suggested that the Gurdjieff work needed a social media presence that was more in the moment, such as a podcast, my friend indicated – probably quite rightly – that the New York Gurdjieff Foundation didn't have the wherewithal to do such a thing. The bureaucracy would consume it as it came out of the gate, and that would be the end of that.

Well, then, one can't really blame the New York Foundation for having a bureaucracy. After all, everything has a bureaucracy (we even have them inside us) and bureaucracies always consume what is valuable in in order to propagate themselves. So no, real blame can be assigned here for reality just being what it is.

On the other hand, as I pointed out to him, I'm not a bureaucracy.