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Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances and Movements
2012In 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, 2017The “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, 2016G. 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, 2021openaire +1 more source
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.
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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.
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A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching
Books Abroad, 1959Leo Hertel, Kenneth Walker
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Gurdjieff and Contemporary Physics and Chemistry
Alternative Spirituality and Religion ReviewJames Webb stated that the source of Gurdjieff’s ideas could be discerned, and that the enquiry helped interpret his method. He purported to identify Blavatsky’s Theosophy as an important source. I contend that the features Webb appeals to for this identification are better understood as hailing from nineteenth century chemistry and science more ...
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