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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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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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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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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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Conclusion Gurdjieff’s Roundabout Yezidi Circle
2009In 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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Reading Western Esotericism: George Gurdjieff and His “Cunning” Esotericism in advance
Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2021Makhabbad Maltabarova
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