Why Bother: The Riddle of the Good Samaritan
In the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said: “Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.” In the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus gives us the key to breaking the code of his sayings. In Why Bother? The Riddle of the Good Samaritan, author Orest Stocco solves the […]
Do We Have an Immortal Soul
“I” is the mystery of life. “I” is a miraculous unit of reflective self-consciousness that is aware of its own individuality and separateness from life; and although every “I” is made of the same individuated consciousness of life, each “I”, in the words of the Romantic poet John Keats, “possesses a bliss peculiar to each […]
Gurdjieff Was Wrong, But His Teaching Works
Gurdjieff was wrong but his teaching works…is the story of one man’s remarkable journey of self-discovery which dispels the Gurdjieffian premise that man is not born with an immortal soul. With his own quest, Orest Stocco illustrates that we are all born with a spark of divine consciousness; but not until we take evolution into […]
The Summoning of Noman
Monday, March 19, 2012. I had my first dream last night that indicates I am reliving my same life over again in a parallel world. In my dream, a woman that I know said to me, “There are two of you.” I am astounded by her comment, because I seem to know that there are […]
The Merciful Law of Divine Synchronicity
I was going on twenty-four and living in Annecy, France when it happened: a soul moment so charged with energy that it changed the dynamic of my life…
Death, The Final Frontier
Despite my Roman Catholic faith growing up, when I encountered the “doctrine uttered in secret” I felt an immediate attraction to it; and although it threw my Christian faith into confusion, I pursued the doctrine of reincarnation. And the more I read on reincarnation, the more convinced I was that when we die we come […]
The Pearl of Great Price
“Stories bear the truth of the human condition, and the human condition is the story of our becoming; but not until we solve the riddle of our becoming will literature resolve the issue of the human condition. This makes literature endlessly fascinating, because every writer speaks to their place in the enan-tiodromiac process of man’s […]
The Fourth Corner of the Abyss
The Fourth Corner of the Abyss by Orest Stocco tells the story of how his high school poem “Noman,” which he wrote more than fifty years ago, changed his life by calling upon him to find his lost soul. This story will shift one’s paradigm and set one free from their ego/shadow personality that keeps […]
One Rule to Live By: Be Good
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” This is the title of the celebrated painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, questions that we would all like answered; but one can read all the libraries in the world and have every experience imaginable and still not know the answer to these […]
My Writing Life
Few writers have impacted writing like Ernest Hemingway, and My Writing Life is a personal account of the impact he had upon the author from the day he discovered him in high school. Not only does My Writing Life offer a unique insight into the art of writing, but into the complicated life of Ernest […]