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	G. I. Gurdjieff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol, Armenia (now Gyumri, Armenia), traveled to many parts of the world (such as Central Asia, Egypt, Rome) before returning to Russia and teaching in Moscow and St.
		To this end Gurdjieff also taught movements as an aid, which are performed as part of a class; and he also left a body of music that he brought back from his visits to remote monasteries, and which was set down by one of his pupils, Thomas de Hartmann.
		Gurdjieff is best-known through the published works of his pupils, such as P.D. Ouspensky, author of In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, which some regard as a crucial introductory book about his teaching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gurdjieff (1457 words)

	Gurdjieff, G. I.
		Priests and doctors taught Gurdjieff, according to his father's plan that he should prepare himself for a single vocation, to be a physician of the body and a confessor of the soul.
		Gurdjieff developed his philosophy and teaching more aligned with Buddhism than Christianity; for he thought Christianity, as we know it, is the distorted remnants that survived the falsifications of Greece and the power politics of Roman.
		Gurdjieff viewed life's processes as being governed by the repetition of the seven stages of development that only proceed if given a boost, or shock, much as music continues along the octave over slower and faster intervals.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/g/gurdjieff_g_i.html (2975 words)

	Gurdjieff Legacy
		Humanity, Gurdjieff realized, had entered a precarious new period in its evolution.
		The world would be destroyed, Gurdjieff warned, unless the 'wisdom' of the East and the 'energy' of the West were harnessed and used harmoniously.
		, Gurdjieff gave the necessary shock: he introduced to the West a unique and powerful esoteric teaching of self-transformation.
	www.gurdjieff-legacy.org (161 words)

	Gurdjieff and His School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gurdjieff was born probably in 1866 of a Greek father and an Armenian mother in Alexandropol (now Gumri), Armenia, a region where Eastern and Western cultures mixed and often clashed.
		The Gurdjieff teaching may perhaps be understood as a journey into and beyond that silence along with and by means of the demand to attend to the ordinary life of ourselves as we are.
		By 1909 Gurdjieff had learned secrets of the human psyche and of the universe that he knew to be necessary for the future welfare of humanity, and he set himself the task of transmitting them to those who could use them rightly.
	bmrc.berkeley.edu /people/misc/School.html (7549 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Gurdjieff
		Gurdjieff established the Institute because he believed his ideas needed to be rediscovered by his students.
		Students of Gurdjieff believe this state is the result of three centers or paths; the mental, located in the head, the emotional which is in the heart, and the physical which is located in the belly.
		Gurdjieff believed that energy is produced which feeds the cosmos and consequently sustains the universe.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/gurdjieff.html (2891 words)

	CESNUR 2001 - Gurdjieff's Changes (Wellbeloved)
		Gurdjieff is quoted as saying that he taught via occultism because it was a subject his pupil had studied, but that there is ‘no need to use occultism as the base from which to approach an understanding of the truth’.
		During this time Gurdjieff had a high profile life, within a matter of months he had the reputation of both charlatan and magician, the Institute became a kind of tourist attraction and on Saturdays there were demonstrations of sacred dancing and of magic.
		Gurdjieff did not provide a clear lineage and so his teaching was open to appropriation by those who claimed to be in touch with his teachers.
	www.cesnur.org /2001/london2001/wellbeloved.htm (2287 words)

	Big Sur Tapes: Gurdjieff, G.I.
		This feature film is based on the spiritual autobiography of G. Gurdjieff, in which he describes his personal search and meetings, in remote areas of the Middle East and Central Asia, with men who shared a consuming desire to understand the deepest mysteries of life and were not dismayed by the obstacles they encountered.
		Hoeller elaborates on Gurdjieff's method for breaking through the mundane experience of time which is either cyclical or linear and can be psychologically unsatisfactory.
		Gurdjieff was one of the most controversial teachers of the century.
	www.bigsurtapes.com /merchant.mv67.htm (524 words)

	Gurdjieff Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience Group of New Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is dedicated to critical, experiential cross referencing of Gurdjieff’s views on the human condition and human potential with theory and data from the modern sciences of evolutionary psychology, cognitive psychology, and the behavioral and brain sciences.
		Gurdjieff showed the way to achieve profound change in oneself and to live with a lifelong sense of search and discovery, without turning away from the ordinary things of life, which prove by the light he offered to be not ordinary at all.
		Gurdjieff lived this approach and it was a key element enabling him to formulate his incisive and practical teachings and methods.
	biology.unm.edu /Biology/pwatson/public_html/gfnm2002.htm (2012 words)

	Introduction to Gnosis #20
		Gurdjieff taught that man in his undeveloped state was subject to the law of accident.
		Gurdjieff, who believed human beings were on a low rung of an enormous cosmic food chain, did not think awakening was possible for any more than a few isolated individuals working together, who, like prisoners digging a tunnel, may be able to find a way out.
		Gurdjieff's abundant sense of humor, his relentless will, the depth of his teachings, the richness and drama of his life, all retain the capacity to fascinate and inspire even now, forty years after his death.
	www.lumen.org /intros/intro20.html (3826 words)

	Gurdjieff, Self-Observation, Self-Sensing, Breathing
		First introduced to the West by G.I. Gurdjieff, the remarkable teacher of psycho-spiritual transformation, as part of his overall system of work on oneself, self-observation is best approached not as a technique but rather as an entirely new relationship to oneself as a living, breathing being.
		Using various methods handed down from Gurdjieff, we were to attempt to discover in ourselves an attention that could "record" whether what we were experiencing at the moment was a thought, a feeling, a sensation, or some combination of these or other functions.
		Gurdjieff makes clear that it is only when our ordinary attention is actively occupied with experiencing the present moment that the higher energy of awareness can appear, an awareness that relates us simultaneously to our inner and outer worlds.
	www.breath.org /self-observation (3295 words)

	George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
		Rejoined by some followers, Gurdjieff established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in 1919 at Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia; it was reestablished at Fontainebleau, Fr., in 1922.
		"Gurdjieff's basic assertion was that human life as ordinarily lived is similar to sleep; transcendence of the sleeping state required work, but when it was achieved, an individual could reach remarkable levels of vitality and awareness.
		The patriarchal host, massive of presence, radiating a serene power at once formidable and reassuring, dispensed this 'food' in various ways, always unexpected; sometimes in thunderclaps of rage, sometimes telling a story that only one of all the table would know was meant for himself, sometimes merely by look or gesture thrusting home the truth.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/scripts/gurdjieff.html (733 words)

	Gurdjieff
		It was at his Institute that Gurdjieff promoted a litany of preposterous occult and mystical notions about the universe, which he claimed he was taught by wise men while traveling and studying in Central Asia.
		Gurdjieff's mostly uninteresting or unintelligible musings were presented in more accessible language by his disciple Petyr Demianovich Ouspensky.
		Gurdjieff obviously had a powerful personality, but his disdain for the mundane and for natural science must have added to his attractiveness.
	skepdic.com /gurdjief.html (682 words)

	Silva Mind Control, UFOs, Gurdjieff- Ouspensky, Swedenborgianism, Atheism- Marxism, Modernism
		Gurdjieff's "theology" leaves no place for the notion of the existence of an objective God who is other than the self...
		In his book "Beelzebub's..." Gurdjieff talks about "a future prophet of consciousness", and many believe he is "Subud", a Javanese, on whom in 1925 a ball of light descended and overwhelmed him; an event called "a latithan" (God's power purifying the soul).
		It is one the offshoots of Gurdjieff: A "monastic" group under Robert Burton.
	www.religion-cults.com /Cults/Other/Other.htm (2067 words)

	The Gurdjieff Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866?-1949) was born in Russian Armenia.
		Gurdjieff's basic teaching is that human life is lived in waking sleep; transcendence of the sleeping state requires a specific inner work, which is practiced in private quiet conditions, and in the midst of life with others.
		Gurdjieff prepared a nucleus of people to be able to transmit his teaching after his death.
	r.hodges.home.comcast.net /G/G.html (296 words)

	Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Fellowship of Friends - Fourth Way School for awakening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky introduced the powerful ideas of the Fourth Way to those seeking to know the truth about man's existence on earth.
		Gurdjieff said that the Fourth Way does not require a person to give up the usual conditions of life; indeed, these conditions are ideal for self-observation.
		Gurdjieff clearly stated, "I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself." Verification is the foundation for work on oneself in a Fourth Way school.
	www.apollo.org (700 words)

	Gurdjieff Videos
		Particularly stressed are the "St. Petersburg Conditions" and Gurdjieff's technique of "divine acting." The video vividly demonstrates Gurdjieff's warning to America of the rise and challenge of the East with footage recalling the 9/11 attack and its aftermath.
		Follows Gurdjieff's search for pre-sand Egypt, beginning with the Sphinx and Great Pyramid, to Thebes and the Temple in Man and Karnak, to the Valley of the Kings, the Temples of Edfu and Abu Simbel, and into Ethiopia where he unexpectedly discovers the origin of the ancient teaching of the Fourth Way.
		Meeting Gurdjieff in Tiflis in 1919, Olgivanna Ivanovna Lazovich, daughter of a supreme court justice and an army general (her mother), became his lifelong pupil.
	www.gurdjieffvideos.com (859 words)

	G.I. Gurdjieff
		He met Gurdjieff in the 1930s, took an active part in the New York group in the following years, and eventually became the president of the Gurdjieff Foundation in New York, a post he occupied for the last thirteen years of his life.
		Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man’s teleological purpose in the universe.
		Gurdjieff, G. I., $13.95 Great changes have taken place since the death of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, yet much of the mystery that surrounded him in his lifetime remains.
	triadbooks.com /OrderPages/Gurdjieff.htm (1146 words)

	The DuVersity Library: The Enneagram
		Gurdjieff referred to the two moments of coupling and integration as 'shocks', which meant the meeting of independent elements.
		Gurdjieff says about this that the interval is 'contained in' the higher do.
		The assimilation of impressions, the third being-food, according to Gurdjieff, 'is not subject to cosmic law'.
	www.duversity.org /ideas/enneagram.html (1987 words)

	Gurdjieff Self-Study Group - Portland, Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Individuals interested in the work of George I. Gurdjieff are invited to explore the practical side of Mr.
		Gurdjieff since the liberation of Paris in 1945 to Gurdjieff's death in 1949.
		Staveley was also a member of the group run by Jane Heap -- one of Gurdjieff's most trusted students -- in London, England, during World War II, while Gurdjieff was cut off from the rest of the world in Nazi-occupied France.
	northwardspirit.home.comcast.net /gurdjieff.htm (277 words)

	Comments on 18947 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gurdjieff's greatest disicple and interpeter was P. Ouspensky, whose In Search Of The Miraculous is the introduction wherein first most meet Gurdjieff and his thought.
		Gurdjieff is frequently compared with Carlos Castaneda and may have been one of his influences.
		Gurdjieff's teachings were responsible for Peter Murphy (of "Bauhaus" fame) converting to Sufi Islam some time back.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/18947 (1250 words)

	Gurdjieff Internet Guide
		Gurdjieff did not bring a 'new idea of God'; what he did was to introduce the spirit of Sufism into the Western world of Christianity and in this way bringing East and West closer to each other.
		Gurdjieff's message is often misunderstood when the direction towards 0neness and God is not taken into consideration.
		Gurdjieff asked: "when you remember yourself, which self do you remember?" As we are, we do not know ourselves, and we have no change 'of remembering the right self', but we have an idea, a concept, in our head that we know what it is and what it means, and this cuts us off.
	www.gurdjieff-internet.com (2386 words)

	Enneagram and Process....tales of the octave.
		The most commonly known form of the enneagram is the "Fourth Way" form taught by Gurdjieff in the first half of this century.
		The enneagram as used by Gurdjieff is a diagram representing the "Law of Seven".
		In "In Search of the Miraculous" by Gurdjieff's disciple Ouspensky, for example, the passage of food through the human organism was mapped onto the enneagram while the inner lines indicated the circulation of the blood.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/3199/process.html (2537 words)

	The DuVersity Library: The Fourth Way
		This is harmonious development, as in Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. To some degree, his series of movements or 'sacred gymnastics' epitomised this approach (in the learning of them rather than their performance).
		Indeed, Gurdjieff often indicated that these conditions were ideal, especially in times of turmoil, for the 'awakening' process that he so strongly advocated and which is integral to the effectiveness of the fourth way.
		Over the years since Gurdjieff's death there had been a tendency to bring in more passive lines of work such as is loosely called 'meditation'; but, perhaps more importantly, some began to suspect the critical importance of being able to learn, which is a receptive act.
	www.duversity.org /ideas/4thway.html (1096 words)

	The Gurdjieff Foundation of Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		G.I. Gurdjieff left behind a way for modern man to find the meaning and purpose of life, to experience life actively and consciously.
		We are a group of people in the Miami area who come together to work with the ideas that Gurdjieff has brought.
		We are closely connected with The Gurdjieff Foundation in New York and thus with other Foundation groups throughout the world.
	www.gurdjieff-foundation-florida.org (148 words)

	Chronology of Gurdjieff's Life
		Between then and 1912 we are chasteningly reliant on Gurdjieff's own four impressionistic accounts, which - in the nature of myth - are innocent of consistency, Aristotelian logic and chronological discipline.
		Nevertheless, punctuating Gurdjieff's narrative and certainly not offending it, are a few objective historical events which I differentiate by italicizing.
		Where Gurdjieff himself actually stipulates a date, I bracket in the chronology a source reference (using the simple code explained in the References section).
	www.gurdjieff.org.uk /gs9.htm (4302 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Gurdjieff: Making a New World (Sprittual Classics Editions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gurdjieff had a knack for mesmerizing smart mathematicians and landed two of them, to give some glitz to his bizarre and second rate 'system'.
		Bennett does his valiant best to wade through the obfuscation of Gurdjieff's teaching, to make it as clear as is humanly possible, without surrending his master's conviction that any struggle for insight can only come at a huge price both personally and spiritually.
		Still I am not convinced that Gurdjieff was much more than a guy who read some esoteric books and had a bunch of unrelated bits of wisdom to proffer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0962190160?v=glance (1392 words)

	disinformation \| george gurdjieff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His teachings (often referred to as the 'Gurdjieff Work' or 'Fourth Way') became widely known through the writings and lectures of his pupil, the famous Russian mathematician and journalist Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky, and were later propagated by Alfred Richard Orage, John Godolphin Bennett, Rodney Collins, and Dr. Maurice Nicoll.
		Recognizing that all spiritual movements eventually succumb to entropy, Gurdjieff ended his masterful use of PSYOPS adversity and confrontation at his 'initiatory laboratory' in Fontainebleu (France), concentrating upon conveying his worldview through the mammoth portable mythos 'Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson' (1950), which developed deeper esoteric themes drawn from Sufi, Zoroasterian, Sumer, and Egyptian literature.
		Many of Gurdjieff's concepts influenced Twentieth Century culture, including the Leary/Wilson/Lilly models of 'conscious evolution', the revitalisation of Gnostic Christianity, scientific research on 'split brain' neurology and 'multiple intelligences', Gaia eco-consciousness and the reciprocal maintenance of natural systems.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id132/pg1 (1638 words)

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