Issue 103 turns toward “here and what lies beyond,” asking how love, form, and attention steady us amid suffering and mortality. In his discourse, Alireza Nurbakhsh considers love in the midst of human suffering, proposing a practice of presence that refuses denial and cultivates compassion. Essays and conversations widen the lens—Chris Hoffman’s “The Shape of All Shapes,” Carlo Filice’s “Afterlife Reports,” Jawid Mojaddedi’s “Dying to Die?,” a dialogue on the Gurdjieff Work with Paul Kane and Roger Lipsey, and “Thus Spake the Dervish,” an interview with Alexandre Papas. Poetry gathers Alireza Nurbakhsh’s “Idol Breaker” alongside new work by Eve Powers, Jeni Couzyn, and Roger Loff; CultureWatch reviews Undone.