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Author : Paul Beekman Taylor
Publisher : Lighthouse Editions Limited
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1904998003
Offers information and stories about Gurdjieff, setting him within the cultural and social contexts of America between 1924 and 1935.
Author : A. Orage,George Gurdjieff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518745547
The volumes of "The Force of Gurdjieff" Magisteria publishing collection reunite various rare, important and sometimes unknown texts written by people who were influenced by the remarkable force of the Gurdjieff's teaching. This volume reunites all the material from volumes 1, 2 and 5 in our collection. While being the only disciple acknowledged by Gurdjieff in his own writings, referring to him as "my inner world essence friend", Orage, besides having an important contribution to Gurdjieff's teaching through his help with the first translation of Gurdjieff's books in English language and through his own writings and lectures, was a crucial self standing spiritual figure through his own work and ideas. This book contains explanations of Gurdjieff exercises.
Author : George I. Gurdjieff,Alfred R Orage,Magisteria
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1508720460
As we live in the age of electronic transmitted knowledge, we have compiled a short selection from Magisteria's Force of Gurdjieff volumes 1, 2 and 5 in order to present you with a taste of Gurdjieff's ideas presented by Alfred Orage at the groups in America. As far as we are concerned, these short texts are food for pondering, which represents that basic human activity leading to formal reasoning, as Orage used to say. They should be consumed and digested amidst our modern life for the special energy they release and this is why we have made them available as such. For the full texts of Orage transcriptions, please see the aforementioned volumes. You must also know that we have also prepared a complete, extended edition, on paper, for everyone who desires to have these three volumes under the same cover.
Author : Robert Ellwood,Harry Partin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315507231
This text explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exist outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Author : Seymour B. Ginsburg
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780835631112
"If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching." Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru's death) and include both annual visits to Sri Madhava Ashish's Mirtola ashram, near Almora, in India's Himalayan foothills, and a lengthy correspondence. Along the way, the entrepreneur/author would not only be caught up in the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, but also in the search for the elusive unitive vision — the world viewed from the perspective of the greater Self and not the personality. In this remarkable spiritual document, the reader shares the search, increasingly catching glimpses of the unitive vision as the book draws toward a close that is also an opening out, into the vaster dimensions of the human mind.
Author : Paul Beekman Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9492590042
This book is a revised and corrected addendum to the biography G. I. Gurdjieff, A New Life, which was published in 2008It is appropriate to justify presenting another book to the corpus of works about him, and to wonder whether there are enough interested readers to warrant its publication. The response is an emphatic "yes," for the ideas of Gurdjieff and their sources are not passing mid nineteenth century fads or fancies. Not only was he recognized during his lifetime as an important messenger of vital ideas (Taylor, Gurdjieff in the Public Eye), but since his death his ideas have moved in ever widening cultural circles everywhere. There are over fifty Gurdjieff groups in the Western world alone, and groups in Africa, South America and Australia. I estimate there are over forty thousand active followers of Gurdjieff's ideas, as well as countless others who are exposed to his fourth way concepts and designs such as his enneagram. Interest in Gurdjieff and studies of him are bound to continue expanding.
Author : Michael S. Pittman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441131133
G.I. Gurdjieff (d. 1949) remains an important, if controversial, figure in early 20th-century Western Esoteric thought. Born in the culturally diverse region of the Caucasus, Gurdjieff traveled in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere in search of practical spiritual knowledge. Though oftentimes allusive, references to Sufi teachings and characters take a prominent position in Gurdjieff's work and writings. Since his death, a discourse on Gurdjieff and Sufism has developed through the contributions as well as critiques of his students and interlocutors. J.G. Bennett began an experimental 'Fourth Way' school in England in the 1970s which included the introduction of Sufi practices and teachings. In America this discourse has further expanded through the collaboration and engagement of contemporary Sufi teachers. This work does not simply demonstrate the influence of Gurdjieff and his ideas, but approaches the specific discourse on and about Gurdjieff and Sufism in the context of contemporary religious and spiritual teachings, particularly in the United States, and highlights some of the adaptive, boundary-crossing, and hybrid features that have led to the continuing influence of Sufism.
Author : Wim van Dullemen
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781942493433
Scores of books exist about the life and teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff (~1866-1949), yet few devote significant coverage to “the Gurdjieff Movements.” These several-hundred precise and mostly asymmetrical gestures, arranged into detailed choreographies for groups of practitioners, were designed by Gurdjieff himself. This new book reconsiders the eminent role of the Movements, revealing them as a vital yet often-neglected component in the transmission of Gurdjieff’s legacy. Van Dullemen, whose first Movements’ teacher received her instruction from Gurdjieff himself, is in a unique position to offer background, theory and first-hand experience about this subject. He is a professional musician and a long-time practitioner of the Gurdjieff work who trained in these Movements and served as a master accompanist for the practice for over thirty years. “No book can teach the Movements,” the author clearly asserts. And, he makes no such attempt here. Far from an instruction manual, The Gurdjieff Movements, A Communication of Ancient Wisdom, offers invaluable insight into and greater understanding of the whys and wherefores of this fourth arm of the vast teaching that comprises Gurdjieff’s complete communication: his books, his oral teachings, his music and finally his Movements. Along with fascinating stories of his own journey of discovery, van Dullemen has skillfully integrated: – autobiographical descriptions of the master Gurdjieff – interviews with direct pupils of Gurdjieff – diligent research within a wide range of firsthand sources – descriptions of the scientific, cultural and social climate during Gurdjieff’s time, and – the relationship between these and his teaching. The book is also a rare accomplishment. While highly authoritative, it is nonetheless written in a direct style with clear language, making it accessible to the public at large who may have interest, but little background, in this esoteric science and practice.
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791423972
This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.
Author : Sophia Wellbeloved
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135132569
This unique book offers clear definitions of Gurdjieff's teaching terms, placing him within the political, geographic and cultural context of his time. Entries look at diverse aspects of his Work, including: * possible sources in religious, Theosophical, occult, esoteric and literary traditions * the integral relationships between different aspects of the teaching * its internal contradictions and subversive aspects * the derivation of Gurdjieff's cosmological laws and Ennegram * the passive form of "New Work" teaching introduced by Jeanne de Salzmann.
Author : Louise Welch
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0710090161
Recounts the efforts of Orage, an influential London editor, to prepare America for the teachings of Gurdjieff
Author : Paul Beekman Taylor
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578631289
This title provides a glimpse into the nature of the thought of two influential men and the origins of the spiritual path they taught. Known as esoteric teachers, Gurdjieff especially, is well-known in the West to those who follow the occult tradition.
Author : Johanna Petsche
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004284449
In Gurdjieff and Music Johanna Petsche examines the large and diverse body of piano music produced by Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) in collaboration with his devoted pupil Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956). Petsche draws on a range of unpublished materials and data from original field research to critically situate and assess this music within its socio-cultural and unique religio-spiritual
Author : William Rory Dickson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438457581
Offers an overview of Sufism in North America. In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one that exists in diverse and beguiling forms. Sufism’s broad-minded traditions of philosophy, poetry, and spiritual practice infused Islamic civilization for centuries and drew the attention of interested Westerners. By the early twentieth century, Sufism was being practiced in North America. Today’s North American Sufism can appear either explicitly Islamic or seemingly devoid of Islamic religiosity. Dickson provides indispensable background on Sufism’s relation to Islamic orthodoxy and to Western esoteric traditions, and its historical development in North America. The book goes on to chart the directions that North American Sufism is currently taking, directions largely chosen by Sufi leaders. The views of ten North American Sufi leaders are explored in depth and their perspectives on Islam, authority, gender, and tradition are put in conversation with one another. A more detailed picture of North American Sufism emerges, challenging previous scholarly classifications of Sufi groups, and highlighting Sufism’s fluidity, diversity, and dynamism. William Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg.
Author : Solange Claustres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9492590182
Becoming Conscious with G.I.Gurdjieff Solange Claustres In principle all known Traditions are based on 'belief'. Gurdjieff's teaching is not a matter of belief, but of having a discerning spirit with which to practise and experience what is taught in order to understand, and to become conscious and responsible for oneself. It is a teaching which includes "work" on the three main parts of the human being, enabling a furtherment and deepening develop- ment of the whole. This teaching has always existed. It surfaces in one form or another, according to the demands and needs of time, place and changing civilisations, whenever humanity is out of balance and loses its reason and lucidity. This teaching is neither a religion nor a philosophy. It can help us to further our understanding of our own Tradition. The essential is that it is practised in our current daily life, just as it is, without changing it. The aim of this teaching is to become conscious: it is transmitted orally and practically, from teacher to pupil, and also from elder to younger members within a group. Solanges Claustres was close to Gurdjieff from 1941 until his death in 1949. She has more than 60 years experience of being involved in this teaching. She led movements classes from the very beginning, and she took part in numerous movements films. She has led her own work groups on Gurdjieff's teaching in France. She has directed movements classes, and taken part in the guidance of work groups in England, Holland and the U.S.A.