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The “Sleep of the Mind”

In George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men (1927), he uses the phrase “the sleep of the mind”, asserting that

What makes a book a “good read”? An obvious answer is that it must be “readable”, and the writings of

The 2014 novel In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman explores the breakdown of a cross-cultural

Does this world offer any freedom or just servitude? Two books written almost a century ago continue to cast a

T S Eliot once wrote: “Where is the Life that we have lost in living”? Many people, in their pursuit

The 2009 film Avatar can be viewed on multiple levels. Simplistically, it can be viewed as a visually-exotic love story.

The nineteenth century British poet Percy Shelley wrote his most famous poem, Ozymandias, in 1819. The short 14-line sonnet is

The cyclical nature of the universe and the impermanence of all things and situations are closely linked. When we are

The importance of the way we think is a key feature of Rudolf Steiner’s small classic 1918 publication, Knowledge of

Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision, is a short book published in 1985 by Colin Wilson in which he