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How did you become an author? What impulses did you follow? Regina: I became an author by expressing a wish. Some time in my early adult life I considered that writing a book would be an interesting thing to do. So I made of sort of “prayer-wish” with no idea how that...

OM, we live in a time where the written word in the form of printed books is becoming increasingly less common. I see and feel this as a great loss of a cultural heritage, which represents an essential pillar of connection to true knowledge, especially in the area of...

Robin Bloor is a student of Rina Hands, who herself was a direct disciple of Gurdjieff. He is the director of the Austin Gurdjieff Society in Texas (USA) and author of many books, including "To Fathom the Gist: Volume 1 - Approaches to the Writings of G.I.Gurdjieff"...

Mary Angelon Young is a songkeeper, traveler, workshop leader, storyteller and author of fifteen books. A lifelong student on the spiritual path, Mary is an elder who has practiced on the Western Baul Path of tantra and bhakti under the mentorship and ongoing guidance...

In this excerpt of OM C. Parkin's partly autobiographical book 'The ‘Birth of the Lion’ OM gives insides into the meaning of letting go and finally the death of the ego-mind. It is all about something to which you have been completely blind, something invisible,...

  When OM C. Parkin founded Gut Saunstorf Monastery many years ago, it was quite natural that dark rooms would have a place here, as he was aware of the healing and transformative potential of a darkness retreat. For guests, a darkness retreat is a very special...

This profound text is an invitation and support to reflect on the most important question of the inner path: “Who am I?” That which is waiting for you, is the great Self-inquiry. It starts with the question: "Who"? and ends with the question: "Who"? Self-inquiry helps...

It was in the year 2000 that OM C. Parkin bought the dilapidated manor house, with its 9,000 m² of wooded parkland, about an hour from Hamburg. His intention was to give spiritual seekers and his own students a permanent place to learn and to live out the ONE...