11 min
Talk
The Greatness That Announces Itself as a Question
Eleven minutes on real questions, the kind that are not looking for an answer.
About the teacher
Jacob Needleman
American philosopher and scholar of religion (1934–2022), professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University for four decades. He worked in the Gurdjieff tradition and wrote Lost Christianity, Money and the Meaning of Life and The American Soul, always on the same question: what a human being is actually for.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
60 min
Interview
Money and the Meaning of Life
An hour on money as a spiritual question rather than an economic one.
56 min
Interview
Time and the Soul
On why there is never enough time, and what that says about where we think we live.
116 min
Talk
Gurdjieff: A Life in the Work
Nearly two hours on the tradition he spent his life inside, and on what it asks of a person.
Path
The wider context.
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Prayer & contemplation
Christian mysticism
Silence, prayer and direct experience within the mystical traditions of Christianity.
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