A short note on this work.

it's kind of like building a house. what we were doing was sort of like building a framework for a house--maybe even sheetrocking the walls. there was a specific name for it: guitar craft.

if one was helping to build a house, one might be asked what he does. odds are, he won't say, "i'm a house builder." more likely that he'll say, "i'm a carpet layer," or "i'm an electrician." he may, in fact, wear multiple hats, but rarely at the same time. it's all part of a larger work, which is the house.

that which was guitar craft is basically the same idea. one could say that the foundation was j.g. bennett's work, which had a very firm and powerful bed in the gurdjieff work. both are inordinately important and necessary. rf's, and by extension, the circle community's, work is a sort of superstructure which is made possible by that initial infrastructure. or, as rf has put it, a physical manifestation of the bennett line of the gurdjieff work. This is probably an inadequate and inaccurate analogy, but it paints the picture.

guitar craft has ceased to exist, but i also see it as a building that has been established. you can't continue to build a building that is built--that is, you can't build your bedroom endlessly. there is a point at which it is done, and you now have to make it a home. this may mean rediscovering the building you've lived in your entire life.