Gurdjieff taught that human beings require three distinct kinds of nourishment: ordinary food, air, and impressions. Of these three, impressions—the raw material of our sensory experience—may be the most crucial and the least understood.  One can live for weeks without food, minutes without air, but not even a second without the "food" of impressions. This session explores how our mechanical identification with thoughts and reactions robs us of the opportunity to be nourished by whatever life presents. What changes when we recognize that the quality of our attention determines whether our experience feeds us or exhausts us? Margaret Flinsch, one of Gurdjieff's early pupils, once observed, "Eat or be eaten." This evening we will consider the hidden meaning of this phrase, with special attention paid to the food of impressions.

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