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Aries, 2020
Abstract George Gurdjieff (1866–1949) and his students’ stay in Constantinople in 1920–1921 remains a blank spot in the movement’s history. Very few records relating to this period survive. In Constantinople, Gurdjieff succeeded in founding the first branch of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, after his attempts in Tbilisi in ...
K. Burmistrov
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Abstract George Gurdjieff (1866–1949) and his students’ stay in Constantinople in 1920–1921 remains a blank spot in the movement’s history. Very few records relating to this period survive. In Constantinople, Gurdjieff succeeded in founding the first branch of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, after his attempts in Tbilisi in ...
K. Burmistrov
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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
Joseph Azize
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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
Joseph Azize
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2020
Abstract The chapter takes two exercises given by Gurdjieff to various people as their last exercise from him. The first, from Solange Claustres, is a discipline for being more conscious as one goes through one’s daily activities by relating them to one’s conscious aim and efforts to remember oneself.
Joseph Azize
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Abstract The chapter takes two exercises given by Gurdjieff to various people as their last exercise from him. The first, from Solange Claustres, is a discipline for being more conscious as one goes through one’s daily activities by relating them to one’s conscious aim and efforts to remember oneself.
Joseph Azize
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Gurdjieff: Ritual Movements and Prayer
Alternative Spirituality and Religion ReviewG. I. Gurdjieff, a mystic of Greek descent, said that, in ancient religion, ritual and sacred dance were guidebooks containing vital truth, which could not be understood without a key. They were “guidebooks” in that they aimed to bring one to a state where one can experience one’s individual reality, and even a relationship to God.
Joseph Azize
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Gurdjieff’s “Help for the Deceased” Exercise
Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2020From about 1939 to 1947, G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) taught some of his pupils exercises to send help to deceased persons and at the same time develop themselves. So far as the author is aware, the exercise is entirely unique in the annals of contemplation and mysticism.
Joseph Azize
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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.
Joseph Azize
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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.
Joseph Azize
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Gurdjieff and the Mystical Tradition
2020Abstract Gurdjieff was fundamentally a mystic in that his system was designed to come into a state where the lower centers or “brains” (mind, feeling, organic instinct) are made healthy and are harmonised together and are aligned with the higher “centers”.
Joseph Azize
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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 ...
Joseph Azize
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Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
This article discusses two complementary approaches to wholeness at least partly indebted to the system of self-transformation developed by spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff: first, British philosopher of science Henri Bortoft’s discussion of authentic wholeness; and second, British philosopher J. G.
David Seamon
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This article discusses two complementary approaches to wholeness at least partly indebted to the system of self-transformation developed by spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff: first, British philosopher of science Henri Bortoft’s discussion of authentic wholeness; and second, British philosopher J. G.
David Seamon
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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 ...
Joseph Azize
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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 ...
Joseph Azize
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