“With a quiet mind, clear, no thoughts, the subtle energy is there,” says Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, who guided the Gurdjieff Work worldwide from 2001 to 2020. In these 41 recollected talks, he speaks of awakening through perceiving directly “a sacred energy” in us, “a radiance that touches everything.”
 
In the Preface we join him for a summer Work week in Provence, a weeklong retreat in Holland, and Work days in New York. Awakening in the midst of everyday life, seeing objectively, being present, related to higher energies—all these are prominent themes.