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Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 2022
G. I. Gurdjieff (1877[?]–1949) left a system of integrated ideas and practices which can provide promising fresh perspectives on stubborn theological conundrums, including teachings on God and the devil, angelic orders, creation, the soul, life-after-death, reincarnation and recurrence, free-will and determinism, the proper order of human life, and ...
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G. I. Gurdjieff (1877[?]–1949) left a system of integrated ideas and practices which can provide promising fresh perspectives on stubborn theological conundrums, including teachings on God and the devil, angelic orders, creation, the soul, life-after-death, reincarnation and recurrence, free-will and determinism, the proper order of human life, and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2013
This article examines the diverse routes that G. I. Gurdjieff’s (c.1866– 1949) work has traversed, from the time of the very first Gurdjieff-based groups established in his lifetime in England, America and France, to the new groups that formed around the world after his death.
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This article examines the diverse routes that G. I. Gurdjieff’s (c.1866– 1949) work has traversed, from the time of the very first Gurdjieff-based groups established in his lifetime in England, America and France, to the new groups that formed around the world after his death.
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Did Gurdjieff Write Scripture?
Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 2022Did Gurdjieff write scripture? Can we understand Gurdjieff’s writings in terms of a category he did not use? Conversely, can Gurdjieff’s ideas and practices be used to understand scripture in other traditions? For Gurdjieff, the important lens of scrutiny was not “scripture” but his own categories of “objective art” and “subjective art.” He considered ...
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Religion and the Arts, 2017
This article focuses on the links between revolutionary and iconoclastic Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), and G. I. Gurdjieff. Grotowski is widely honored in the theater world, and understood to have been involved in creating what have been called spiritual experiences within theater movements of the late twentieth century. His work
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This article focuses on the links between revolutionary and iconoclastic Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), and G. I. Gurdjieff. Grotowski is widely honored in the theater world, and understood to have been involved in creating what have been called spiritual experiences within theater movements of the late twentieth century. His work
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International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2016
Several descriptions have been given to the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866?-1949), including ‘esoteric Christianity’, a herald of the ‘New Age Movement’ and a standalone system called ‘The Work’ or the ‘Fourth Way’. Scholars qualify their assessments by noting Gurdjieff’s exposure to Theosophy, Spiritualism and Hypnotism, or his background in ...
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Several descriptions have been given to the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866?-1949), including ‘esoteric Christianity’, a herald of the ‘New Age Movement’ and a standalone system called ‘The Work’ or the ‘Fourth Way’. Scholars qualify their assessments by noting Gurdjieff’s exposure to Theosophy, Spiritualism and Hypnotism, or his background in ...
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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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