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Gurdjieff Books
A list of Gurdjieff books. Some convey Gurdjieff’s theories and methods, others his life, and yet others his aims and ambitions.
Esoteric Christianity
According to the Parable of the Sower, understanding distinguishes between the different circles of humanity, between Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity.
Esoteric Buddhism
The premise behind esoteric Buddhism was that truth could be experienced, but could not be expressed literally without being corrupted. One could teach truth, therefore, not through explicit instruction, but through reflection.
Chief Feature
While we are a multiplicity of brains with a multiplicity of impulses, all converge at a single point. “Our habitual emotions, the way we think, what we invent,” explained Peter Ouspensky “all turn around one axle and that axle is chief feature.”
Gurdjieff on Visual Art
There are figures of gods that can be read like books, not with the mind but with the emotions, provided they are sufficiently developed...
Gurdjieff’s Metaphor of the Carriage
A man as a whole, with all his distinct and separately functioning localizations… is almost exactly comparable to that means for transporting a passenger which consists of a carriage, a horse, and a coachman. - Gurdjieff
Fourth Way School
An active Fourth Way school of worldwide membership dedicated to self-study by revisiting ancient teachings from a psychological perspective
Ouspensky
Peter Ouspensky rejected the science and psychology of his time under the strong suspicion that there had to exist a superior system of thought...
Why did Ouspensky Leave Gurdjieff?
Why did Ouspensky leave Gurdjieff? Why did he decide to distance himself at some point and work separately?
In Search of the Miraculous
In Search of the Miraculous is a book authored by Peter Ouspensky, widely regarded as the most comprehensive account of the teachings of Gurdjieff...
Maurice Nicoll
Dr. Maurice Nicoll’s work within the body of Fourth Way literature arguably represents the most complete, organized, and computational presentation available on the subject...
Rodney Collin
Rodney Collin did much to materialize the aim of his teacher to integrate modern science with ancient wisdom, a process he correlated with the difference and relationship between laws and facts or deductive and inductive reasoning...