direct contact

What keeps us going in a certain path?
Is just readings, practice, theory......or glimpses of direct contact?
Is there another "reality" which is not the one we normally "see", "live in"?, and if so, is it posible to contact it, really, not just theorize about it?

(Dedicated to Itay)

(video clip from the 1979 film "Meetings with remarkable men" based on Gurdjieff book of the same title)