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by Kamal Amin
Egyptian-American architect Kamal Amin spent 8 years training with Frank Lloyd Wright and remained with Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, modeled on Gurdjieff's Prieuré, for 18 years following Wright's death in 1959. Amin shows what a powerful influence Wright was, as well as recording the intense and mixed relationship he had with Wright's wife and widow, Olgivanna Lazovich Wright, an early pupil of Gurdjieff's. Among the many people Amin meets at Taliesin are Svetlana Stalin, Karl Menninger, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg.
Paperback, 264 pp.
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Price: $17.00
by Margaret Anderson
A basic text of the secondary Fourth Way literature written by one of Mr. Gurdjieff's direct pupils. Margaret Anderson, co-editor of the legendary avant-garde literary magazine the Little Review, gives a sense of the times, the people, Gurdjieff and the teaching as he presented it.
212 pp.
Price: $14.00
by David Appelbaum
Gurdjieffian and philosopher David Appelbaum explores the moment of shock when the seamless web of momentum is suddenly disrupted. In this gap, during which the spatio-temporal categories of thought are brought to a standstill, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve.
186 pp.
Price: $24.00
by David Appelbaum
The first in his three volume work on the interval (see Disruption and The Delay of the Heart), Appelbaum explores the moment of shock when a gap is created, evoking awareness, and ignorance passes to knowledge. Says Frederick Turner, University of Texas, "This is one of the most brilliant, interesting and utterly original books I have read. It replaces Derrida's despairing notion of absence with a full and potent foundation of presence."
154 pp.
Price: $18.00
by J.G. Bennett, Foreward by Anthony Blake
The enneagram is a universal symbol for understanding how a process in time could become organized to become an evolutionary event; one that is no longer "in" time but creating its own time to become a living structure that is relatively immortal. From the transformation of the Biosphere to the setting up of a scientific experiment; from manufacturing to aesthetic development; from the preparation of a meal to "The Sermon on the Mount," the enneagram is shown to be a key to understanding the very structure of intelligence itself.
144 pp.
Price: $18.00
by J.G. Bennett
Bennett's best book on Gurdjieff. Explores his mission and methods of teaching. Photos and illustrations.
253 pp.
Price: $20.00
by J.G. Bennett
Fluent in Turkish and determined to investigate Gurdjieff's Islamic sources, 56-year-old J.G. Bennett set out in 1953 on a long journey through Islamic countries ending with a visit to Kars. Meeting with Islamic holy men, Sufis, Naq'shbandi dervishes, Yezidi priests and charlatans, Bennett seeks out hidden knowledge while giving an insightful and prophetic portrait of Islamic societies. In doing so, Bennett comes to a new appreciation of Gurdjieff. "The more I listened to the holy man the more I marvel at Gurdjieff. How was it possible for an Asiatic, gaining his knowledge in Central Asia to bring to the West a teaching that cuts right down to the roots of our problems? The complete transformation of our system to a world teaching has not yet been accomplished, but as I look at Emin Bey, a man of utmost goodness and purity of heart combined with great inner strength, I turn my thoughts toward Gurdjieff with an even greater respect than before."
243 pp.
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Price: $25.00
by J.G. Bennett
A compilation of six of Bennett's 1954 talks. These include: "The Reason for Man's Existence on the Earth," The Human Organism and its Functions," "Consciousness and its Possible Transformations," and "The First and the Second Death of Man."
113 pp.
Price: $14.00
by J.G. Bennett
An esoteric history of the spiritual unfolding of life on this planet. Both a study of unconventional history and a vision of the workings of a higher intelligence on the Earth, and evidence for the historical existence of men who have in the past realized such a level of intelligence within themselves.
178 pp.
Price: $20.00
by J.G. Bennett
Starting from a point of practical study, Bennett expands upon such subjects as "I" and "Not I," "Intention and Action," and "Understanding versus Knowing." These talks were given at a particularly creative period of his life when he returned to the practice of techniques he had learned from Mr. Gurdjieff but was still strongly influenced by his experiences with Pak Subud.
312 pp.
Price: $27.00
by J.G. Bennett
A series of lectures focusing on what Bennett takes to be the essential meaning of Beelzebub's Tales.
Index, 137 pp.
Price: $20.00
by J.G. Bennett
This is the fascinating life story of a highly intelligent and gifted but quixotic seeker who moves from teacher to teacher—Gurdjieff, Idries Shah, Pak Subu and Shivapuri Baba, to name a few—in his relentless search to find himself. Bennett begins with an out-of-body experience during the First World War which is too bad, as the experiences that really formed him and with which he had to deal all his life—his birth, parents and childhood memories—remain unknown.
Photos, index, 352 pp.
Price: $32.00
by Solange Claustres. Translated by Dawn Wakefield and Paul Richardson
Solange Claustres first met Mr. Gurdjieff in 1941 during the German occupation of France. He soon put her in the position of leading Movements classes. His devoted student until his death in 1949, for over 60 years she has lived his teaching, and for many years has led her own Work groups in France. A rare and valuable book destined to take its place among the classics of the Gurdjieff teaching.
168 pp.
Price: $35.00
by Rodney Collin
A longtime student of P.D. Ouspensky's who, following his teacher's death, left England for Mexico to establish the teaching there. Collin's wife assembled and edited his notebooks, papers and talks following his death, and the result is this new cloth edition limited to 1,000 copies. Topics include sincerity and honesty, creativity, truth, marriage, the fourth dimension.
Hardcover, index, 18 photos, 95 pp.
Price: $25.00
by René Daumal
Unabridged audio CD in MP3 format read by Dr. William J. Welch.
CD-MP3
Price: $30.00
commentary by Meister Eckhart
This is an in-depth exploration of the Lord's Prayer with a commentary by Meister Eckhart. According to Gurdjieff "Most ancient prayers have nothing in common with petitions; they are, as it were, 'recapitulations'. By repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavors to experience what is in them—their content—with his mind and feeling, concentrating and reflecting on the real sense of each word—what it really means to him, how he can understand it. In this way, many ideas will become connected in his thinking and many thoughts relating to the words of the prayer will pass through his mind. And then it is precisely these thoughts which can do for him what he asks God to do." The prayer, according to Ouspensky, is divided into three and these three divisions are again triply divided.
159 pp.
Price: $30.00
by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt
The first comprehensive biography of the gifted French avant-garde writer and poet best known for his Mount Analogue and A Night of Serious Drinking. At sixteen he began to teach himself Sanskrit so as to penetrate to the essence of Hindu philosophy, but it was the teaching of Gurdjieff that changed his life. Madame de Salzmann's role as his teacher is depicted, as is Gurdjieff's presence, in the closing days of Daumal's life.
Hardcover, 252 pp.
Price: $28.00
by Irv Givot
The process of self-observation as seen through the nine points of the Enneagram by a student of A.L. Staveley.
Hardcover, 88 pp.
Price: $15.00
by G.I. Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff's magnum opus, an esoteric jewel. Said A.R. Orage: "It is really an objective work of art, of literature of the highest kind; it is in the category of scripture." A must-read for all serious students of The Fourth Way.
Hardcover, 1238 pp.
Price: $45.00
by G.I. Gurdjieff read by Dr. Welch
Dr. William Welch was a longtime student of Gurdjieff and a noted Fourth Way teacher. This project, the first of its kind, was begun in 1992 and lasted three years, two years before his death. This set of four CDs in MP3 format contains the whole of Gurdjieff's magnum opus. The CDs can be played on a computer or other device equipped to handle the MP3 format. They cannot be played on an ordinary audio CD player.
CD-MP3
Price: $60.00
This new and long-awaited second edition references all editions of Beelzebub's Tales, including the classic edition of 1950 and the later 1992 and 1999 editions. It also includes page correlation with foreign language editions, as well as a pronunciation guide, background notes and missing or variant text.
Hardcover, 564 pp.
Price: $60.00
The voices of seven speakers, four of whom were present at readings attended by Mr. Gurdjieff, pronounce each of the unusual words appearing in the First Series. Of the three remaining speakers, one spoke both Armenian and Persian as a child; another is fluent in English and Slovenian; and a third speaks only English. The CD-ROM plays on either a PC or MAC.
CD-ROM
Price: $20.00
This beautiful hand-crafted volume with a corkskin cover and Egyptian papyrus endpapers gives all the prayers and hymns appearing in G.I. Gurdjieff's All and Everything. A unique offering showing a deep but little recognized part of Gurdjieff's teaching.
Price: $40.00
by G.I. Gurdjieff
An esoteric work in the form of autobiography written to furnish, as Gurdjieff says, "the material required for a new creation." Reveals the depth and intensity of Gurdjieff's search which attracted to him significant influences whom he calls, "remarkable men." With them he travelled throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia to find the origin of an ancient teaching.
303 pp.
Price: $16.00
by G.I. Gurdjieff
Talks by Gurdjieff in the early years from 1917–1935 as recorded by his students. Includes "Glimpses of Truth" and aphorisms.
276 pp.
Price: $16.00
by G.I. Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff's "First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity." Gives descriptions and outlines of his Three Series.
96 pp.
Price: $10.00
by Rina Hands
Details Gurdjieff's "Science of the Idiots" toasts. Floor plan of Gurdjieff's apartment. Meeting with John Pentland.
Hardcover, photographs, 88 pp.
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Price: $15.00
by Jane Heap
Jane Heap entered the Work in 1924 and by 1927 had been asked by Gurdjieff to lead a group in Montmartre. With Orage, she helped edit the English edition of Beezlebub's Tales to his Grandson. In 1935 Gurdjieff sent her to England to lead groups, which she did until her death in 1964. A.L. Staveley, a pupil of hers for 20 years, said, "She was an artist in words as well as materials of all kinds. The precision with which an idea was presented, the fact that it appeared as a picture rather than as verbal thought, was a little shock and entered a pupil as an unforgettable impression." After her death, her extensive notes were collected and a selection of these was published as The Notes of Jane Heap. This is a second selection.
Hardcover, 95 pp.
Price: $22.00
by Jane Heap
Personal notes of a keen early student who Gurdjieff asked to teach. Gives real feeling and insight into the Work.
Hardcover, 158 pp.
Price: $20.00
by Bob Hunter
A biography of Ouspensky by an Australian writer and longtime member of the Work. It reveals, among many other things, that the austere manner in which Ouspensky delivered lectures was only a facet of his personality. In fact, he was warm-hearted in his personal dealings and had an extraordinary insight into people, as well as history and science.
296 pp.
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Price: $35.00
Compiled and produced by Gert Jan Blom, creator of the acclaimed Harmonic Development: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948–1949, the Oriental Suite is comprised of a 256-page hardcover book bundled with four newly recorded CDs. The CDs contain both the Paris orchestrations and the American versions of the eight public demonstrations of the Sacred Gymnastics and Movements at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris between December 13 and 25, 1923. The music, composed by Mr. Gurdjieff to accompany these dances, was orchestrated by Thomas de Hartmann and performed by an orchestra of 35 musicians. In January 1924 Gurdjieff and his students gave a series of public demonstrations in New York, Boston and Chicago. At Gurdjieff's request, de Hartmann adapted the full orchestral scores for a smaller ensemble in America. Both the Paris orchestrations and the American versions have been recorded for the first time by the Metropole Orchestra and the Little Orchestra. An addenda section features music intended for Gurdjieff's unfinished ballet The Struggle of the Magicians. The book is illustrated with many new photos and unique historical documents, as well as the recollections of people who were present for the demonstrations. Also included is the extensive press coverage generated during these public appearances. Among the recollections are those of P.D. Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann, Anna Butkovsky-Hewitt, Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch, Jessmin Howarth, Denis Saurat and J.G. Bennett.
Price: $99.00
I played objective music to make you cry, answered Mr. Gurdjieff to a question from Dorothy Caruso [see her A Personal History]. "There are many kinds of music—some to make laugh, or to love or to hate. This the beginning of music—sacred music, too, three thousand years old. Your church music comes from such but they don't realize. They have forgotten. This is temple music—very ancient."
Featured are 113 harmonium improvisations recorded in Mr. Gurdjieff's apartment in Paris. They are separated into four series:
1. First Series—recorded between April 1 and July 21, 1949
2. Mesoteric Series—recorded between July 22 and August 18, 1949
3. American Series—recorded between August 25 and September 27, 1949
4. Second Series—recorded between September 27 and October 16, 1949
This collection also includes the very first recordings of Mr. Gurdjieff's harmonium music played at the Wellington Hotel, New York City, between December 1948 and early February 1949—his last visit to America. These recordings also include several talks and stories as told by Mr. Gurdjieff to his pupils.
There is also an addenda section which contains several unlabeled pieces from the original wire recordings. The grand total of recorded pieces is thus 136—over 19 hours of music. All are brought together in chronological sequence on a single disc in MP3 format. Included also is a short 9-minute film made by Evelyn Sutta on several automobile trips with Mr. Gurdjieff during the summer of 1949. This disc will play on any computer with MP3 software installed and on most recent DVD players. An extra two-CD set in standard audio format contains a representative compilation of recordings; these discs will play on any CD player.
In addition, there is a handsome and copiously illustrated 144-page book with many previously unpublished photographs of Mr. Gurdjieff and recollections of people who were present when these recordings were made.
Price: $65.00
by Mary Ellen Korman
The spiritual life story of Ethel Merston based on her diaries and recollections is an important historical work, as well as a keen insight into many of the seminal teachers of her times. Merston was one of Gurdjieff's first English pupils and lived at the Prieuré from 1922 until 1927. Her seriousness and organizational abilities led Gurdjieff to put her in charge in his absences. Fritz Peters gives a wonderful account of what she had to put up with (he gives her the name Miss Madison) in his Boyhood with Gurdjieff. In India, she lived at Ramana Maharshi's ashram for many years. She gives a first-person account of his death and also the meeting between The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Anandamayi Ma (with whom she often traveled). She also attended many of Krishnamurti's talks and seminars in the 1930s, was a friend of Sunyata, Alain Daniélou, Krishna Prem and Swami Omananda. In the 1950s she was initiated into Subud by Pak Subuh at J. G. Bennett's Coombe Springs study house. At Mendham, she met again her friends from her Gurdjieff days—Mme de Salzmann, Mme Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann and Peggy Flinsch—and was introduced to Lord John Pentland.
"There are few comprehensive accounts of individual Western pioneers who were interested in Indian spirituality in the first part of the 20th century. Ethel Merston left an intimate record of her journey as she constantly questioned and searched for a remedy to relieve the malady of her soul. We owe to Mary Ellen Korman our appreciation for chronicling that time and bringing to life many of the people Ethel Merston encountered, and who we never quite knew as fellow seekers committed to the search for higher truths."
—The Mountain Path, The Journal of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
"I found Ethel Merston's life story fascinating. The narrative completely absorbed me and I was captivated from the first sentence by both substance as well as style. Ethel Merston was an exceptional individual and it is wonderful that her story has finally been told. An important work with considerable research."
—Ram Alexander, Editor, Death Must Die: A Western Woman's Life-Long Spiritual Quest with Shree Anandamayee Ma
Photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 330 pp.
Price: $25.00
translated by Dieter Kurth
This is the oldest and most authentic guide to an ancient Egyptian temple ever written, as it originates with an Egyptian Priest who lived in the first century B.C.E., under the last kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, when the construction and decoration of the huge temple was finally completed. These walls tell about the Seven Sages who came from the island "Homeland of the Primeval Ones" which sank during a catastrophic flood. The parallel with what is written in the First Series is exact. Dieter Kurth is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Hamburg.
Photographs and drawings, 96 pp.
Price: $18.00
by Jean-Yves Leloup
Incorporating the recent discovery of the Gospel of Judas with other gospels and various apocryphal texts, Leloup probes the deeper meanings of the biblical presentation to argue that Judas' betrayal was Jesus' idea. His betrayal would show the "evil" in humankind and set Judas by Jesus' side in eternity. "There where I am, " said Jesus, "is where I wish you, too, to be."
174 pp.
Price: $15.00
by Maurice Nicoll
An original and learned inquiry into psychological dimensions, higher levels of understanding as they relate to time, eternal recurrence and man's integration. A noted British psychologist, once the close student of Carl Jung and later Ouspensky, Nicoll led Fourth Way groups until his death in 1953.
294 pp.
Price: $35.00
by Maurice Nicoll
A further elucidation of the themes explored in his The New Man, Nicoll examines the idea of sin which he takes in its original Greek meaning of missing the mark, as in a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it. Subjects dealt with include the Parable of the Sower, the Grain of Mustard Seed, Metanoia, War in Heaven and Esoteric Schools.
257 pp.
Price: $35.00
by Maurice Nicoll
Employing a rare example of intellectual intuition and erudition, Nicoll sifts the New Testament Gospels to reveal the esoteric teaching beneath their surface interpretation. Subjects include the idea of temptation, the Marriage at Cana, the Good Samaritan, Laborers in the Vineyard, Judas Iscariot, Sermon on the Mount, Necessity of Prayer, and the Kingdom of Heaven.
202 pp.
Price: $30.00
edited by C.S. Nott
With his customary penetrating insight and lucid command of the English language A.R. Orage, the man Gurdjieff called "my brother," and the editor of All & Everything, provides a perspective and scale revealing riches previously considered inaccessible to all but initiates. Nott was Orage's good friend and a longtime student of Gurdjieff.
Hardcover, 136 pp.
Price: $16.00
edited by C.S. Nott
A basic text of secondary literature of the teaching of The Fourth Way in the West, C.S. Nott's journal covers the years 1923–1928 and also includes Orage's commentary on Beezlebub's Tales. The perspective and information given makes it an invaluable and unique source.
230 pp.
Price: $15.00
by Elaine Pagels and Karen King
The recent discovery of the Gospel of Judas, newly translated by Karen King, restores the vibrant and tumultuous experience of early Christianity—as opposed to the unbroken procession of a uniform faith which has been systematically put forward. Elaine Pagels, a world-renowned expert on early Christianity, brings the necessary depth of context and subtlety for a true evaluation of the gospel's meaning and import. This new Judas the reader encounters is much in accord with how Gurdjieff spoke of him more than 70 years ago.
Softcover, index, 198 pp.
Price: $15.00
by William Patrick Patterson
Since Castaneda's first book, The Teachings of Don Juan, readers have wondered about his sources. Here, shown concept-by-concept, is the primary source of Castaneda's ideas—Gurdjieff's Fourth Way. Also explored is don Juan's true identity, the meaning of Castaneda's "jump into the abyss," the life of the Nagual and his witches. Also included in full is the first reference to Nagualism, anthropologist Daniel Brinton's essay "Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folklore and History" written in 1894.
"Although inclined to skepticism about Castaneda, I found myself reading The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda with total fascination. As it tells just about everything, I imagine this will be the definitive book on Castaneda."
—Colin Wilson, author, The Outsider and The Occult
"Patterson brings original insight into the forces and influences that formed Castaneda's sorceric adventure. Particularly interesting are the role of Anaïs Nin and the revelation of the source of many of Castaneda's supposedly sorceric ideas."
—Mary Ellen Korman, author, A Woman's Work: The Life of Ethel Merston
"A must read for anyone who has followed Carlos on his extraordinary journey. The way William Patrick Patterson expounds on Carlos' teachings is astounding!"
—Margaret Runyan, author, A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda
"This is the most brilliant and insightful rendering to date of the 'Ultimate Impeccable Warrior,' Carlos Castaneda, my father."
—C.J. Castaneda
Hardcover, chronology, notes, index, appendices, 290 pp.
Price: $28.00
by William Patrick Patterson
Expanded edition. Includes a gallery of 17 paintings depicting different stages in the journey.
"Most books on the Work, while quite valuable, are too dry. Eating The 'I' is a major step in changing that; here we have a real human being, like you and I, struggling with Gurdjieff's teachings, sharing moments of despair and moments of insight and liberation. I found it hard to put the book down."
—Charles T. Tart. Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Univ. of CA, author of Waking Up
"Books about students and teachers are a dime a dozen. The general procedure is to either write about your teacher in hushed tones of reverence or be slyly critical showing your superior understanding of the teachings he or she transmitted. Not to be cynical, but having read hundreds of "spiritual" biographies certain patterns appear. However, with this book, my preconceptions were shattered. Here is an honest, perhaps brutally honest, recounting of a student's quest for knowledge. There is no attempt to whitewash or make petty points of one-upmanship. The story is recounted with a clarity and self analysis which is not often found in print, and while admirable, can be painful to read. The people portrayed are shown "warts and all", both teacher and student(s) are shown as individuals working towards true awareness, not as characters wearing masks in a spiritual psychodrama (as so many contemporary spiritual biographies seem to read).
"Eating The 'I' is not only a book about "the work" or the "fourth way" with specific reference to a period of teaching in America under Lord Pentland, it illustrates the very way in which "the work" operates. Here is spirituality in conflict, here is spirituality worked out in the alchemical furnace of everyday experience. The Fourth Way is not that of the ascetic, monk or saint, but that of a person using everyday life as his or her classroom. These concepts while outlined by various individuals within the book are also reflected in the actual conflicts and problems which the author discusses. He lives the "Fourth Way", so rather than being a set of beliefs, a spiritual system or a sequence of exercises (while it may contain such), it is a way of life.
"This makes Eating The 'I' a powerful read. You not only get an outline of the Fourth Way, but a taste of what it is like to live applying these principles within everyday experience. The uniqueness of such a presentation makes this work of exceptional significance to anyone wondering how a spiritual life can be had within the hectic modern world we live in.
"A truly magnificent work of great importance and of increasing relevance in a world in which spiritual values seem to be fast vanishing."
—Thubten Drimay, Editor, Living Traditions magazine
416 pp.
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by William Patrick Patterson
This is the first book to examine the Rope, the ladies-only group of spiritual seekers, all lesbians except one, that G.I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris' Left Bank. During his thirty-seven years of work in the West, Gurdjieff's creation of the Rope remains his most enigmatic. The conclusions reached by the author about why Gurdjieff created the Rope are as original as they are surprising and will be of serious interest to those involved with feminine spirituality in all its many forms.
Photos, notes, chronology, references, index, 330 pp.
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Price: $50.00
by William Patrick Patterson
Explores the teacher-student relationship as seen through the lives of Gurdjieff and Uspenskii.
"The tension between the richly contrasting personalities of Gurdjieff and Uspenskii is a cameo of the problems with which the personal transformation tradition has had to contend....[A] finely-told chronicle of a classic event in occult history, set against the backdrop of overwhelming dramatic, historic events, effectively set into the narrative as date-lines."
—Robert S. Ellwood, Chairman, Dept. of Religion, University of Southern California.
Notes, references, index, 312 pp.
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by William Patrick Patterson
The Greek translation.
Notes, references, index, 319 pp.
Only 2 copies left, each author signed.
Price: $50.00
by William Patrick Patterson
The first book to examine the spiritual theft and appropriation that marks our time. A detailed and well-documented study, it illustrates how the enneagram movement commercialized an ancient alchemical symbol, how Robert Burton, founder of The Fellowship of Friends, arrogated The Fourth Way teaching, and how Boris Mouravieff plagiarized and tried to appropriate it.
"A lucid and compelling account of conflict and charlatanism surrounding one of the most important alternative spiritual movements of our day. Indeed, one sees the crisis unfold before one's eyes, for the author does not hesitate to charge those he finds responsible for debasement of the message of George Gurdjieff with opportunism and self-inflation. This book is important as a 'white paper' for those concerned about the broader Gurdjieff movement, and as a case study for all students of contemporary spiritual movements."
—Robert S. Ellwood, Chairman, Dept. of Religion, University of Southern California.
Notes, references, index, 156 pp.
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by William Patrick Patterson
The Japanese translation.
Notes, references, index, 185 pp.
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Price: $50.00
by William Patrick Patterson
Voices in the Dark weaves together the oppression and fear of the Nazi Occupation of Paris with the transcripts from 31 of G.I. Gurdjieff's wartime meetings. Voices that helped to mold the time speak out—Camus, Malraux, Sartre, Beauvoir, Gide, Daumal, de Gaulle, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and many others. Explored in depth is the little-recognized but powerful influence of the pseudo-occult in the ideology at the foundation of Hitler's vision.
"This is probably the most unusual book about Gurdjieff, himself the most mysterious and penetrating teacher of esoteric knowledge in the 20th century. Between vivid descriptions of the German occupation of Paris, in the early 1940s, as all Europe is engulfed in the horror of the Nazi death machine, we read of Gurdjieff, now in his 70s, calmly working with his students, probing, provoking, giving exercises and encouragement—two coexisting worlds, yet an infinity apart. I found the book totally absorbing and illuminating."
—Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Psychologist, author, The Unfolding Self
Photos, notes, references, index, 342 pp.
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by John Pentland
Selections, questions, and answers of Gurdjieff group meetings led by the remarkable man that Gurdjieff chose to lead the Work in America, Lord John Pentland.
372 pp.
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by Fritz Peters, foreword by William Patrick Patterson
Long out of print, this special hardcover reissue of Fritz Peters' account of his five years with G.I. Gurdjieff ranks among the classics of Gurdjieffian literature. Only 11 years old when his aunt, Margaret Anderson, brought him to the Prieuré in June 1924, he immediately became devoted to Gurdjieff. Within weeks, however, Gurdjieff suffered a near fatal car crash. During his recovery the young boy became his "chair carrier." Other tasks included mowing the château's great lawns, kitchen boy, waiter and gatekeeper. He also was to clean Gurdjieff's room, no small task as Gurdjieff delighted in wrecking it. Peters was among the few to whom Gurdjieff gave individual lessons on the teaching. An acute observer and talented writer, Peters' crisp images and scenes, often hilarious, give a rare look at what life was like at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Peters' interactions with Miss Madison (Ethel Merston), Rachmilevitch, and Gurdjieff's dog Philos, as well as A. R. Orage and Gertrude Stein are quite telling. Said the writer Henry Miller of Peters' book, "It's full of amazing anecdotes and the wisdom of life."
Hardcover, introduction, photos, notes, index, 234 pp.
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by Beryl Pogson
Practical applications of self-observation and self-remembering. Pogson, a former student and secretary to Maurice Nicoll, gives accounts of work sessions.
262 pp.
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Price: $35.00
by Allen Roth
The only first-person account to date of what it was like to attend J.G. Bennett's 10-month residential course at Sherborne Academy for Continuous Education, Sherborne, England.
Photos, index, 121 pp.
Price: $20.00
by Frank R. Sinclair
Introduced to the Work by Fairfax Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, the author and self-described "mystic" met his teacher Mme de Salzmann on a visit to the Ouspensky estate at Mendham, New Jersey. Sinclair's original two-month stay extended to a nearly 50-year active participation in the Work in which, to judge from his personalized views of Lord John Pentland and Thomas Forman, he long suffered in silence. That the author puts his views in public now just as he assumes the presidency of the New York Foundation, given the recent passing of Paul Reynard, might be a cause for alarm if the book's underlying strategy was not so transparent—to elevate his teacher to unchallenged supremacy by pointing out the supposed "clay feet" of others. But this is all preparation for his larger aim: to counter James Moore's contention that the work Mme de Salzmann offered was "soft." The book's most interesting aspects are recollections of Gurdjieff's last visit to New York in 1948 by Sinclair's wife, as well as numerous photos not previously seen.
277 pp.
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by A.L. Staveley
How to focus attention in practical ways during everyday life is explored in these three volumes by A.L. Staveley at her work groups. A pupil of Jane Heap's in London during the Second World War, Mrs. Staveley also met G.I. Gurdjieff afterward and attended his meetings and dinners.
99 pp.
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by A.L. Staveley
Volume II of 3 volumes.
115 pp.
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by A.L. Staveley
Volume III of 3 volumes.
175 pp.
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by A.L. Staveley
A pupil of Jane Heap in London from 1939-1959, Annie Lou Staveley met Gurdjieff after the Second World War. She gives a vivid first-hand portrait of Gurdjieff and the way in which he taught in these closing years. "If you were brave enough," she writes, "desperate enough, alert enough—or even, on occasion, surprised enough—you might see a reflection of what he saw at that moment for yourself; that is, the human condition as it appeared in one atom of humanity—yourself."
74 pp.
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by Colin Wilson
Not only did Atlantis exist but Wilson believes the civilizing force behind it was the Neanderthals. Not violent brutes as most think, Neanderthals had sophisticated mathematical and astrological knowledge, including an understanding of the precession of the equinoxes. They also possessed advanced telepathic abilities akin to the "group consciousness" evident in migrating birds and fish.
320 pp.
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by Colin Wilson
Beginning with Schwaller de Lubicz's insight that the erosion on the Sphinx was not caused by wind or sand but by water, Wilson makes a compelling case that—just as Gurdjieff said—Atlantis was the precursor of Egypt's highly advanced, antediluvian society. In his eminently readable style, Wilson combines all the latest evidence and discoveries augmented by his own intuitive strikes to give a picture of Atlantis and the ancient world never before offered.
Notes, bibliography, index, 294 pp.
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