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Gurdjieff’s “Help for the Deceased” Exercise

Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2020
From 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.
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Gurdjieff and the Mystical Tradition

2020
Abstract 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”.
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Conclusion Gurdjieff’s Roundabout Yezidi Circle

2009
In a passage from P. D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, Gurdjieff reportedly distinguishes “black magic” from “white magic” by one prominent feature, that the black magic (which he regards as possibly being altruistic, like white magic) has a tendency to “use people for some, even best of aims, without their knowledge and understanding” (1949 ...
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Biographical Studies of G.I. Gurdjieff

Fieldwork in Religion, 2016
The various published biographies and biographical notices of G.I. Gurdjieff (c.1865-1949) are of diverse style, quantity and content. While some have made considerable contributions to the subject, most attempts have reacted for or against Gurdjieff’s status as what might call an ‘Enlightened Master’.
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Gurdjieff: Ritual Movements and Prayer

Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
G. 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.
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An Overview of Gurdjieff’s Ideas

2020
Abstract Gurdjieff’s teaching was based on a set of coherent principles, relating the ultimate unity of the Creation to the diversity of the phenomena in it. Reality, for Gurdjieff, is a property of the whole, the reality of the phenomena being only relative.
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Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances and Movements

2012
In the course of his unique career as a magus-cum-mystic, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff taught two distinct series of sacred dances and movements ('the Movements'). To understand the significance of the Movements within the Gurdjieff teaching, one must consider both this teaching and the man himself. Both Gurdjieff 's ideas and the movements he fashioned
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The Contemporary Context of Gurdjieff’s Movements

Religion and the Arts, 2017
The “sacred dances” or “Movements” were first revealed by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1949) in 1919 in Tiflis (Tblisi), the site of the first foundation of his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. The proximate cause of this new teaching technique has been hypothesized to be Jeanne de Salzmann (1889–1990), an instructor of the ...
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Intentional Communities in the Gurdjieff Teaching

International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2016
G. I. Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) claimed that individuals could not advance spiritually but that in a group progress was possible. He founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, first in Tiflis, Georgia in 1919, and for a second time at the Prieuré des Basses Loges in Fontainebleau-Avon, south of Paris, in 1922.
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Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises

Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2021
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