Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, the Teaching, His Mission
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1879514087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 668 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gurdjieff in a new light Hal Stalworth This is a remarkable and important book for all those who are interested in Gurdjieff and the teaching he brought. It unearths new information from library archives about Gurdjieff the person, his methods of teaching, about his relationships with key students—Ouspensky, Orage, Salzmann, De Hartman, Toomer&. Everything, and more Annie in Healdsburg G I Gurdjieff ReviewG.I. Gurdjieff is THE source book for accurate, verifiable information on the seminal teacher of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched, with citations for all the pertinent information just as a resource for information about Gurdjieff this book is essential.But there is more, so muc. A Remarkable Book About A Remarkable Man With his latest book, William Patrick Patterson provides the reader an insightful and scholarly biography of G. I. Gurdjieff, but the book is far more than a typical biography. While there have been several other biographies, along with many personally revealed slices of Gurdjieff’s life and teaching, this
Material from all of Gurdjieff's direct students and their library archives, much of it not available until recently, is assembled in chronological form as it happened. The aim is to give an objective, panoramic view of Gurdjieff's life, the inner substance of the seminal and scientific teaching of self-development he discovered, and his unrelenting mission to introduce and establish this esoteric teaching in the West. The author's ninth and final book on the Work is a comprehensive and factual account of Gurdjieff and The Fourth Way. Included are Uspenskii's (original Russian spelling) never-before-published essays "Why I Left Gurdjieff" and "Where I Diverge from Gurdjieff"; original deleted material from Search; Uspenskii's American femme fatale, Carman Barnes; Jessie Dwight Orage's short stories "Elsie at the Prieuré" and "Elsie and Allah"; notes of Kathryn Hulme and Solita Solano (1935-39); The Science of Idiotism, and the complete scenario of Gurdjieff's ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians.
--—Robert Black, Living Traditions. Readers will find here an expertly assembled narrative – a chronological mosaic of the activities, inner and outer, of Gurdjieff and his followers, pieced together from the records kept by many. The book then proceeds year by year, month by month, often day by day, ending with Gurdjieff s death on October 29, 1949, and his burial. Exhaustively referenced this is really quite an achievement. The most significant thing about Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, The Teaching, His Mission is its focus. Also included in this new book are such rarities as Gurdjieff's scenario for his ballet The Struggle of the Magicians and Frank Lloyd Wright's "Gurdjieff at Taliesin." --—Jeff Zaleski, Publisher and Editor, ParabolaI have spent a lifetime studying t