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| | The Spirit of Things: 6 March 2005 - The Curmudgeon & the Mystic - Alf Garnett and Gurdjieff |
 | | That’s from the film 'Meetings with Remarkable Men', about the early life of the enigmatic mystic, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, who was born in Russian Armenia in 1866 and died in Paris in 1949. |
 | | Warren Mitchell played Gurdjieff’s father in the Peter Brook film, ‘Meetings with Remarkable Men’ made in 1979, which is also the title of a book by Gurdjieff about his early encounters with spiritual teachers. |
 | | Rachael Kohn: There’s a scene in the film, ‘Meetings with Remarkable Men’ when a young Gurdjieff asks his father, ‘When we die, is there nothing left?’ And his father says, ‘I don’t believe that the soul lives on forever, and yet I’m certain that through certain experiences, we can develop a fine substance in ourselves. |
| www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/spirit/stories/s1312785.htm (6328 words) |
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