![]() ![]() Gurdjieff calls us to awaken, telling us: "Man's possibilities are very great. ![]() He can become conscious and find his true place as a human being in the creation, but this requires a profound transformation". He is not free to him, everything 'happens'. "Man is asleep", said Gurdjieff, "he has no real consciousness or will. It is a way in life, on which - gradually, for it cannot be done all at once - everything has to be questioned - one's beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, one's whole outlook on the life of man on this Earth. To follow the way he proposed, nothing is to be believed until verified by direct experience and life in the world is not to be renounced. He called this teaching 'The Fourth Way'. ![]() ![]() In 1912 he brought to Moscow an unknown teaching, a teaching that was neither a religion, nor a philosophy, but a practical teaching to be lived. With inspired like-minded companions, he set out to find in Asia and Africa the truth he sought, learning many languages, and acquiring many practical skills to earn the money for his journeys. To his questions: Who am I? Why am I here? he found no answer either in religion or in science, but suspected that the truth lay hidden behind what had come down from the past in religious traditions and those strange myths and legends which he learned from his father, a traditional bard or 'ashokh'. His first tutor was a priest and he also received a scientific education in surroundings and a way of life that had changed little for centuries. Basic information about Gurdjieff Gurdjieff was born in Armenia around 1870. Nott's sequel Further Teachings of Gurdjieff: Journey Through This World and his translation of Conference of the Birds are also available in Kindle format from Toward Publishing. The journal is not an exposition of the theory of the Gurdjieff system it is rather an account of the cumulative effect on one person of practical work in an authentic esoteric school. It has also a description of life at the Ch�teau du Prieur� as experienced by the pupil. The book, compiled from hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, is a record of sayings and doings of Gurdjieff and their impact on the young pupil at that time. About this book This is a first hand account of a disillusioned young man who, having travelled round the world studying various ways and religions, finally meets Gurdjieff in New York, and is convinced by seeing the demonstrations of sacred dances that at last he has found the Way he is looking for. ![]()
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