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Gnostic sensibility in Gurdjieff’s “Work”

2018
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Fasting in Christianity and Gurdjieff

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 2015
The 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, 1997
24 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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Gurdjieff, His Music and Teaching

2015
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Introduction Gurdjieff, Hypnosis, and Hermeneutics

2009
Mysticism 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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Through the Lens of Gurdjieff

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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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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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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