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2019
Abstract This is the first analysis of all of Gurdjieff’s published internal exercises, together with those taught by his students, George and Helen Adie. It includes a fresh biographical study of Gurdjieff, with groundbreaking observations on his relationships with P. D. Ouspensky and A. R. Orage (especially why he wanted to collaborate
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Abstract This is the first analysis of all of Gurdjieff’s published internal exercises, together with those taught by his students, George and Helen Adie. It includes a fresh biographical study of Gurdjieff, with groundbreaking observations on his relationships with P. D. Ouspensky and A. R. Orage (especially why he wanted to collaborate
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2005
Thesis ([PhDSoSc(Communic,InformatStud)])--University of South Australia, 2005. This dissertation is aimed at a contemporary reading of certain aspects of the teaching brought to the West by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. In particular it focuses on enunciating relevant aspects of this teaching in the idiom of modern day psychology so as to create spaces
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Thesis ([PhDSoSc(Communic,InformatStud)])--University of South Australia, 2005. This dissertation is aimed at a contemporary reading of certain aspects of the teaching brought to the West by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. In particular it focuses on enunciating relevant aspects of this teaching in the idiom of modern day psychology so as to create spaces
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Moveable feasts: The Gurdjieff work
Religion Today, 1994A New Religious Movement (NRM) moves: stasis is not on offer. The founder’s pipe-dream, his grand chimera, is evangelical dynamism with canonical arrest. Muhammad, for example, would convert the world, yet cautions: ‘Beware of novel affairs for surely all innovation is error.’ . . . In vain!
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Fasting in Christianity and Gurdjieff
Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 2015The use of fasting by the Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff (c. 1866– 1949) has never been studied. Although it was not as important in Gurdjieff’s system as his better known methods (e.g. self-observation and the sacred dances), fasting nonetheless numbered among the techniques he employed for ‘self-remembering’.
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Gurdjieff and Ego-Enhancement: A Powerful Alliance
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 199724 housewives wishing to take more control over their lives were matched on their Control of Life Thermometer scores, one member of each pair being randomly allocated to either an Experimental or a Control group. While this latter group read material on how they might achieve the increased control they desired, the Experimental group had two 50-minute ...
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2020
Abstract By the end of 1930, a crucial shift had taken place in Gurdjieff’s teaching. He had effectively closed his French operations to concentrate on his writing, and, although it was probably not his intention, he had significantly reduced the operations of the groups that A. R. Orage had been maintaining for him in the United States.
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Abstract By the end of 1930, a crucial shift had taken place in Gurdjieff’s teaching. He had effectively closed his French operations to concentrate on his writing, and, although it was probably not his intention, he had significantly reduced the operations of the groups that A. R. Orage had been maintaining for him in the United States.
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Introduction Gurdjieff, Hypnosis, and Hermeneutics
2009Mysticism has traditionally been concerned with seeking human spiritual awakening from the hypnotic sleep of every day life in favor of attaining direct knowledge and/or experience of the hidden meaning, reality, and truth of all existence (cf. Underhill [1911] 1999; Tart 1986, 1994; Bishop 1995).
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2020
Abstract The more reliable and datable exercises for Gurdjieff’s activities in the 1930s is examined in this chapter: these comprise an “Exercise concerning Aim and Energy”, “There Are Two Parts to Air,” and “Make Strong! Not Easy Thing.” These, together with the reminiscences of Hulme, support the thesis that, in this period, Gurdjieff ...
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Abstract The more reliable and datable exercises for Gurdjieff’s activities in the 1930s is examined in this chapter: these comprise an “Exercise concerning Aim and Energy”, “There Are Two Parts to Air,” and “Make Strong! Not Easy Thing.” These, together with the reminiscences of Hulme, support the thesis that, in this period, Gurdjieff ...
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A Biographical Sketch of Gurdjieff
2020Abstract Gurdjieff is described as a man with a rich heritage, that of the Greek-origin inhabitants of Asia Minor, but no home, being disposed by the events of the Russian Revolution. He transplanted his teaching from Russia to Western Europe, eventually adopting France as his permanent base, although he made many trips to the United ...
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Fieldwork in Religion, 2016
G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations ...
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G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations ...
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