September Soliliquies/The Gurdjieff Filter

Photo: Jack O’lantern mushrooms, Maine. These mushrooms are bioluminescent: they glow in the dark.

I was recently reading a densely examined analysis of the qualities of faith, hope, and love as expounded in Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson. It was well thought out and carefully argued. Yet in the end it worried me. It reminded me of Peggy Flinch’s advic…