Richard Hodges
email: rbhodges@gmail.com
photo: B. Van Duyn
Images
Essays
Stories From My Native People
Personal Accounts
Re-Readings (transcreations of traditional poetry & scripture)
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
Poetry
Productions
African music and dance
Boehme Shave Cartoon, published in Works and Conversations
Book 2015:
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Cosmic Being
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Photographs from a pilgrimage to Angkor
Essays
Mind as Hallucination
No Way
Psychonauts, submariners of the troubled seas of self
How writers change the face of the world
The Way of a Tourist, a
personal account of a mystical experience
Published in Shambala Sun magazine
The History of an Illusion
Drum is The Ear of God on African
music and spirituality
The Quick and the Dead: The Souls of Man in Vodou Thought
From the Mat to the Street: Judo and Life some
reflections on the practice of Martial Arts
Published in Material for Thought
Thus Spake Beelzebub
Published in Gurdjieff
International Review
Thais: a mini-opera
Manifesto of Disbelief
Inside Out
The Fabulous Gryphon: A Sufi Poem
Play
Who I am not
Living in the Briar Patch
The Crown of Unknowing
Where is Man Going
Theosophy of the Musical Scale
The Musical Scale and its Intervals
Why Is There Nothing, Rather Than Something
A Life Worth Examining A Review of A
Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Lee Fermor
The Mind in the
Machine: Absurdity and Meaning in Cognitive Science
Fruitful Chaos, a meditation on the meaning of
unpredictability
Stories From My Native People
Traditional Creation Story
The Teachings of My Native People
Who Song Is the origin of magic and wisdom
The Heart of the Sky a conversation with Baba
Songs in the Sea a story of life and death
Personal Accounts
And God Created Great Whales
Rhythm, Ego, and the Real Self a search in Time and
in Africa
Re-Readings (transcreations of traditional poetry & scripture)
Sonnets to Orpheus II:29 (Rilke)
Ayat
an-Nur (Verse on
Light, Koran 24:35)
Creation
Hymn (Rg Veda
10.129)
The Cuckoo of Awareness (Dzogchen poem from Dunhuang)
Beauty
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
Song
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
The 27 types, as combinations of parts of centers
Digital image
© 2016
Myriagram
Like Enneagram, but with 10,000 points
Digital Image
© 2013
No Way
Fortress of Self
Poison
What Rough Beast
Nausea
How to Serve Your Fellow Man
...of consciousness
The Making of Art(ists)
I and Others
Seeing the Seer
Stitching and Unstitching: the power of "I"
Endurant Being
"Being" in Beelzebub
Proprioception and Self-consciousness
I(nner) Work
Four-Dimensional Being
Being Split, Being United: Theater and Inner Work
A Pilgrimage to the Gobi desert (presented at All and Everything conference 2021)
Two Zhikrs
The Gnosis of Gurdjieff: A series of video discussions
Conscience: A Good Friday Nightmare
A Prolegominism To Erasure
Fragmentation Impartiality and Conscience in Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff, Poet
The Bezels of Beelzebub (presented at All and Everything conference 2018)
Overseeing the Self: a meditation
The search for "I am"
The Way of Sacrifice
and the Light Within
Kundabuffer
The arc and secret of Gurdjieff's teaching
Music and inner work
A Brief History of God
The Breeds of Dogs
Music and Work
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching: an
appreciation
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Voices of the Silence
Sung with bassoon accompaniment to tune of Movement French 30
The Gurdjieff Foundation
Poetry
Those Who Profess
Whose Words These Are
After Life
The Ghost in Us
12 Haiku
Where Once a Man
They Say
Tempting Death
The Best
Summer Night San Rémy
Artificial Light
Predator
Experience
Now
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer
Painted Love
What Does the Elephant
New Byzantium
The Fine and the Coarse
Like Genesis
A Meditation in the Middle of the Night
Our Present Life
The Law of World Creation and World Renewal
Aphorism
Elements
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Plan
Sailing
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the
Milky Way)
Questions
Recipe for Man
Poem's Sound
Productions (R. Hodges &
Gurdjieff Foundation San Francisco)
Gurdjieff-Rumi Concert 2010
Music of Three Worlds 2005
Music of Three Worlds 2003
2009 World Masters Judo Championship Gold
Medal
Studies of African music, dance, and spirituality
African Sources List
(books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of
Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great
African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in
African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
Published in Shambala Sun magazine
Drum is The Ear of God on African
music and spirituality
The Quick and the Dead: The Souls of Man in Vodou Thought
From the Mat to the Street: Judo and Life some
reflections on the practice of Martial Arts
Published in Material for Thought
Thus Spake Beelzebub
Published in Gurdjieff
International Review
Thais: a mini-opera
Manifesto of Disbelief
Inside Out
The Fabulous Gryphon: A Sufi Poem
Play
Who I am not
Living in the Briar Patch
The Crown of Unknowing
Where is Man Going
Theosophy of the Musical Scale
The Musical Scale and its Intervals
Why Is There Nothing, Rather Than Something
A Life Worth Examining A Review of A
Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Lee Fermor
The Mind in the Machine: Absurdity and Meaning in Cognitive Science
Fruitful Chaos, a meditation on the meaning of unpredictability
The Teachings of My Native People
Who Song Is the origin of magic and wisdom
The Heart of the Sky a conversation with Baba
Songs in the Sea a story of life and death
Rhythm, Ego, and the Real Self a search in Time and in Africa
Sonnets to Orpheus II:29 (Rilke)
Ayat
an-Nur (Verse on
Light, Koran 24:35)
Creation
Hymn (Rg Veda
10.129)
The Cuckoo of Awareness (Dzogchen poem from Dunhuang)
Beauty
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
Song
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
The 27 types, as combinations of parts of centers
Digital image
© 2016
Myriagram
Like Enneagram, but with 10,000 points
Digital Image
© 2013
No Way
Fortress of Self
Poison
What Rough Beast
Nausea
How to Serve Your Fellow Man
...of consciousness
The Making of Art(ists)
I and Others
Seeing the Seer
Stitching and Unstitching: the power of "I"
Endurant Being
"Being" in Beelzebub
Proprioception and Self-consciousness
I(nner) Work
Four-Dimensional Being
Being Split, Being United: Theater and Inner Work
A Pilgrimage to the Gobi desert (presented at All and Everything conference 2021)
Two Zhikrs
The Gnosis of Gurdjieff: A series of video discussions
Conscience: A Good Friday Nightmare
A Prolegominism To Erasure
Fragmentation Impartiality and Conscience in Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff, Poet
The Bezels of Beelzebub (presented at All and Everything conference 2018)
Overseeing the Self: a meditation
The search for "I am"
The Way of Sacrifice
and the Light Within
Kundabuffer
The arc and secret of Gurdjieff's teaching
Music and inner work
A Brief History of God
The Breeds of Dogs
Music and Work
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching: an
appreciation
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Voices of the Silence
Sung with bassoon accompaniment to tune of Movement French 30
The Gurdjieff Foundation
Poetry
Those Who Profess
Whose Words These Are
After Life
The Ghost in Us
12 Haiku
Where Once a Man
They Say
Tempting Death
The Best
Summer Night San Rémy
Artificial Light
Predator
Experience
Now
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer
Painted Love
What Does the Elephant
New Byzantium
The Fine and the Coarse
Like Genesis
A Meditation in the Middle of the Night
Our Present Life
The Law of World Creation and World Renewal
Aphorism
Elements
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Plan
Sailing
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the
Milky Way)
Questions
Recipe for Man
Poem's Sound
Productions (R. Hodges &
Gurdjieff Foundation San Francisco)
Gurdjieff-Rumi Concert 2010
Music of Three Worlds 2005
Music of Three Worlds 2003
2009 World Masters Judo Championship Gold
Medal
Studies of African music, dance, and spirituality
African Sources List
(books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of
Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great
African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in
African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
Creation
Hymn (Rg Veda
10.129)
The Cuckoo of Awareness (Dzogchen poem from Dunhuang)
Beauty
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
Song
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
The 27 types, as combinations of parts of centers
Digital image
© 2016
Myriagram
Like Enneagram, but with 10,000 points
Digital Image
© 2013
No Way
Fortress of Self
Poison
What Rough Beast
Nausea
How to Serve Your Fellow Man
...of consciousness
The Making of Art(ists)
I and Others
Seeing the Seer
Stitching and Unstitching: the power of "I"
Endurant Being
"Being" in Beelzebub
Proprioception and Self-consciousness
I(nner) Work
Four-Dimensional Being
Being Split, Being United: Theater and Inner Work
A Pilgrimage to the Gobi desert (presented at All and Everything conference 2021)
Two Zhikrs
The Gnosis of Gurdjieff: A series of video discussions
Conscience: A Good Friday Nightmare
A Prolegominism To Erasure
Fragmentation Impartiality and Conscience in Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff, Poet
The Bezels of Beelzebub (presented at All and Everything conference 2018)
Overseeing the Self: a meditation
The search for "I am"
The Way of Sacrifice
and the Light Within
Kundabuffer
The arc and secret of Gurdjieff's teaching
Music and inner work
A Brief History of God
The Breeds of Dogs
Music and Work
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching: an
appreciation
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Voices of the Silence
Sung with bassoon accompaniment to tune of Movement French 30
The Gurdjieff Foundation
Poetry
Those Who Profess
Whose Words These Are
After Life
The Ghost in Us
12 Haiku
Where Once a Man
They Say
Tempting Death
The Best
Summer Night San Rémy
Artificial Light
Predator
Experience
Now
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer
Painted Love
What Does the Elephant
New Byzantium
The Fine and the Coarse
Like Genesis
A Meditation in the Middle of the Night
Our Present Life
The Law of World Creation and World Renewal
Aphorism
Elements
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Plan
Sailing
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the
Milky Way)
Questions
Recipe for Man
Poem's Sound
Productions (R. Hodges &
Gurdjieff Foundation San Francisco)
Gurdjieff-Rumi Concert 2010
Music of Three Worlds 2005
Music of Three Worlds 2003
2009 World Masters Judo Championship Gold
Medal
Studies of African music, dance, and spirituality
African Sources List
(books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of
Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great
African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in
African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
Beauty
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
Song
(from Cantares
Mexicanos)
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
The 27 types, as combinations of parts of centers
Digital image
© 2016
Myriagram
Like Enneagram, but with 10,000 points
Digital Image
© 2013
No Way
Fortress of Self
Poison
What Rough Beast
Nausea
How to Serve Your Fellow Man
...of consciousness
The Making of Art(ists)
I and Others
Seeing the Seer
Stitching and Unstitching: the power of "I"
Endurant Being
"Being" in Beelzebub
Proprioception and Self-consciousness
I(nner) Work
Four-Dimensional Being
Being Split, Being United: Theater and Inner Work
A Pilgrimage to the Gobi desert (presented at All and Everything conference 2021)
Two Zhikrs
The Gnosis of Gurdjieff: A series of video discussions
Conscience: A Good Friday Nightmare
A Prolegominism To Erasure
Fragmentation Impartiality and Conscience in Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff, Poet
The Bezels of Beelzebub (presented at All and Everything conference 2018)
Overseeing the Self: a meditation
The search for "I am"
The Way of Sacrifice
and the Light Within
Kundabuffer
The arc and secret of Gurdjieff's teaching
Music and inner work
A Brief History of God
The Breeds of Dogs
Music and Work
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching: an
appreciation
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Voices of the Silence
Sung with bassoon accompaniment to tune of Movement French 30
The Gurdjieff Foundation
Poetry
Those Who Profess
Whose Words These Are
After Life
The Ghost in Us
12 Haiku
Where Once a Man
They Say
Tempting Death
The Best
Summer Night San Rémy
Artificial Light
Predator
Experience
Now
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer
Painted Love
What Does the Elephant
New Byzantium
The Fine and the Coarse
Like Genesis
A Meditation in the Middle of the Night
Our Present Life
The Law of World Creation and World Renewal
Aphorism
Elements
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Plan
Sailing
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the
Milky Way)
Questions
Recipe for Man
Poem's Sound
Productions (R. Hodges &
Gurdjieff Foundation San Francisco)
Gurdjieff-Rumi Concert 2010
Music of Three Worlds 2005
Music of Three Worlds 2003
2009 World Masters Judo Championship Gold
Medal
Studies of African music, dance, and spirituality
African Sources List
(books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of
Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great
African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in
African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
trans-Gurdjieffian Reflections
|
|
|
|
The 27 types, as combinations of parts of centers
|
Myriagram |
No Way
Fortress of Self
Poison
What Rough Beast
Nausea
How to Serve Your Fellow Man
...of consciousness
The Making of Art(ists)
I and Others
Seeing the Seer
Stitching and Unstitching: the power of "I"
Endurant Being
"Being" in Beelzebub
Proprioception and Self-consciousness
I(nner) Work
Four-Dimensional Being
Being Split, Being United: Theater and Inner Work
A Pilgrimage to the Gobi desert (presented at All and Everything conference 2021)
Two Zhikrs
The Gnosis of Gurdjieff: A series of video discussions
Conscience: A Good Friday Nightmare
A Prolegominism To Erasure
Fragmentation Impartiality and Conscience in Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff, Poet
The Bezels of Beelzebub (presented at All and Everything conference 2018)
Overseeing the Self: a meditation
The search for "I am"
The Way of Sacrifice and the Light Within
Kundabuffer
The arc and secret of Gurdjieff's teaching
Music and inner work
A Brief History of God
The Breeds of Dogs
Music and Work
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching: an
appreciation
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Voices of the Silence
Sung with bassoon accompaniment to tune of Movement French 30
The Gurdjieff Foundation
Poetry
Those Who Profess
Whose Words These Are
After Life
The Ghost in Us
12 Haiku
Where Once a Man
They Say
Tempting Death
The Best
Summer Night San Rémy
Artificial Light
Predator
Experience
Now
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer
Painted Love
What Does the Elephant
New Byzantium
The Fine and the Coarse
Like Genesis
A Meditation in the Middle of the Night
Our Present Life
The Law of World Creation and World Renewal
Aphorism
Elements
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Plan
Sailing
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the
Milky Way)
Questions
Recipe for Man
Poem's Sound
Productions (R. Hodges & Gurdjieff Foundation San Francisco)
Gurdjieff-Rumi Concert 2010
Music of Three Worlds 2005
Music of Three Worlds 2003
2009 World Masters Judo Championship Gold Medal
Studies of African music, dance, and spirituality
African Sources List
(books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of
Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great
African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in
African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.
Click here for résumé.
Co-founder
(2000) and VP of Technology of Octiv Inc., which was acquired
in 2005 by Plantronics Inc.
Recently
Principal Scientist, Synaptics, Inc.
Consultant on DSP and Machine Learning research and development.
Email: rbhodges@gmail.com
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