My drawing from a photo of George I. Gurdjieff
Different start to this day: Up and at’em to an 8:00 AM Baptist Church meeting, a very small group of “new formation” whom I have visited 4 or 5 times since their September start-up at a familiar location. I’d say I’m trying to revisit my roots, with live people. Pleasant, but no feelings of pending attachment. Also visited my long-term spiritualist friends for another Friday night class and volunteered to bore them with a Rodney Collins reading next Friday. Neither group exceeds ten people in attendance generally, but I must get something out of these in-person meetings.
Also participated todayin two Gurdjieff based Zoom webinars with mostly people I’ve known electronically for several years, enough to have developed real senses of friendship and delight in their company. These webinars and web links are very important to me, and I wonder what the future holds for such disembodied relationships. Especially since I recently saw TV news speculation on that psychology—human/machine anttachments—and films of the new human form robots, which I find alarming. Hence, I suppose, my barely conscious motivation to seek live people in my increasingly lonely life.
P and her little dog D came for tea this afternoon, and I expect to see C and little N this evening.
Lord, I am grateful for all the people I can glean into my life by whatever means, but particularly for those who literally share air with me. Must admit I dearly love those distant folk whom I touch only with electromagnetic means, too. Let your guidance reach us to negotiate this brave new world and keep us safely in your light.
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