by Michiel Koperdraat | Apr 9, 2020 | Articles
Through the book ‘The New Man’ by Maurice Nicholl, I learned that words and parables in the Bible can be explained well from the Fourth Way system of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. This made the New Testament more meaningful to me, and things that were previously...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Feb 19, 2020 | Articles
Realization in Relation A Spiritual Relationship The loving relationship you enter into with a partner, for instance in a marriage, could be a spiritual relationship, wherein supporting each other in one’s inner development and assisting each other in processing...
by Michiel Koperdraat | May 24, 2019 | Articles
Like a fish in water If you could ask a fish, ‘do you know you live in water?’, it might not understand what you’re talking about. If a fish were to embark on a voyage of discovery, the very last thing it might recognize is the water in which it...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Aug 20, 2018 | Articles
The Philosopher’s Stone as a Metaphor The legendary Philosopher’s Stone was said to be able to transform base metals into noble metals, like lead into gold. People searched for it for eternity, but it was impossible to achieve such an atomic transformation...
by Michiel Koperdraat | Jul 31, 2018 | Articles
Blood Moon, a metaphor On July 27, 2018, there was a total lunar eclipse, and again on January 21, 2019, and it was a prolonged one! There was also an almost complete (penumbral) blood moon on May 16th. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth stands between the sun and the...
