Be period.com

December 3, 2023,

     I have stumbled upon a school on the internet titled beperiod.com.  Beperiod is what this school teaches.  Just be.  That machine in your skull that drones on ceaselessly, shut it off, take a break.

If the neo-pagan witches of modern times call attention and celebrate the celestial movements, i.e. the equinoxes and the solstices among other pagan (before Christianity) sacred days, Be Period latches its anchor on the labors of the months, those medieval calendars with their earth labor of that particular month enshrined in a motif at the flirst letter of the script.  

Beperiod’s creator is Asaf Braverman.  I believe I stumbled on his school on YouTube.  It’s a school, an international school in which one is taught how to connect in a more authentic way with the world we live in.  As a questioning young man Asaf became acquainted with the Russian mystic George Gurdjieff, and then later his student Peter Ouspensky.  Both men established schools on the same model as did their latter student Asaf braverman.

The labors of each month are, for January, a peasant chopping wood in a snowy landscape while mother inside is nursing child, becomes for Beperiod a focus on the three bodies of self, the physical body, the essential body,that is its energy, and the personality body, the essentials of life.  Braverman’s lessons use art to show how the artist is able to depict a person’s being, to depict the unspoken knowledge of the true artist which arrest you upon viewing his work.  Each monthly labor is based on the farmer’s labor to maintain his family and the townspeople.  But here the months’ labors are focused in reaching what I’ve written of in a past post on cosmic consciousness,   https://ggurdjieff.com/about/ has a brief introduction of Asaf’s work, an-in-progress documentary of Gurdjieff and Oupensky.   

  
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Eight o'clock Sunday morning, the police arrive at her apartment in Greenwich Village, "How long have you been living here?" The roommate Elizabeth, after having accepted her half of the deposit money and rent for their new apartment, has called the police. 

New York City doesn’t open its arms to welcome her, but she’s arrived and the adventure of her life is about to unfold.  She’s come from Maine with an invitation from Sarah Lawrence College to participate in the graduate writing program.

How one becomes a seeress is what this memoir explores. Stories have been specifically selected to illustrate, from the sublime to the practical, a spiritual journey introduced in each chapter by an atout, the Tarot’s major archetypes.   From the Fool, to The World, our human journey with its risk and folly unfolds. There is also an artist here alive to her new world seeking inspiration among artists on the Lower East side, learning the ways and foods of her Chinese neighbors, falling in love.