Gurdjieff practices
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Biographies
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866?-1949) “Greco-Armenian holistic philosopher, thaumaturge, and teacher of Sacred Dances (whose ancillary personae as musicologist, therapist, hypnotist, raconteur, explorer, polyglot, and entrepreneur exercise the taxonomic mind).” —, (445) James Moore Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch The exact date of birth is unknown, but it is estimated to be somewhere between 1866 and 1877. Born in Alexandropol (Russian Armenia), grew up in Kars and is said to have trained as both a physician and a priest. As a young man he pursued his interest in esotericism while traveling widely around North Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. After returning to Russia (before WWI), he began to gather pupils of his own and set up learning communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg. During the Russian Revolution he moved these teaching groups to various locations near the southern coast of Russia and then to Tbilisi in Georgia. His final destination before moving permanently to Western Europe was Istanbul. It was here that he became enthralled with Suf
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George Gurdjieff
Greek–Armenian philosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949)[1] was a Greek–Armenian philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.[2] Gurdjieff taught that people are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and serve our purpose as human beings. The practice of his teaching has become known as "The Work"[3] (connoting work on oneself) and is additional to the ways of the Fakirs (Sufis), Monks and Yogis, so that his student P. D. Ouspensky referred to it as the "Fourth Way".[4]
Gurdjieff's teaching has inspired the formation of many groups around the world. After his death in 1949, the Gurdjieff Foundation in Paris was established and led by his close pupil Jeanne de Salzmann in cooperation with other direct pupils of Gurdjieff, until her death in 1990; and then by her son Michel de Salzmann, until h
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Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff International Review
The Man and the Literature
by James Moore
to those who want to make
themselves shoes."
G. I. Gurdjieff
More than a hundred years ago Gurdjieff was a poor boy in the obscure town of Kars, on the Russo-Turkish frontier: today his name is becoming a modish verbal token, which (like Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein) is absurdly conceived to be self-explicatory. Those who would now narrowly appropriate him as 'the inspirer of the ecology movement' or 'the initiator of contemporary eupsychian therapies' — tho
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