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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Gurdjieff |
 | | One of the key beliefs of Gurdjieff is that individuals live their lives in a type of spiritual sleep, unaware of their essence and outside forces. | | | The Gurdjieff movement is similar to mainline religions and human potential movements with regards to terminology. | | | Followers of Gurdjieff participate in Gurdjieff Movements which are sacred gymnastics, and physical-mental exercises used to arouse consciousness. |
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| | Gurdjieff, G. I. |
| | Gurdjieff developed his philosophy and teaching more aligned with Buddhism than Christianity; for he thought Christianity, as we know it, is the distorted remnants that survived the falsifications of Greece and the power politics of Roman. | | | The conflict between the old and the new started Gurdjieff on a search for a knowledge, in a sense, a lost knowledge; for he had became convinced that in some prior epoch mankind had possessed knowledge, which had been lost, of the true sense and purpose of human life and the way to its fulfillment. | | | They live frugally and communally; but at times were asked to join Gurdjieff in his Rabelaisian feasts and drinking parties. |
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| | G. I. Gurdjieff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gurdjieff's teaching has many aspects that are well described in 'In Search of the Miraculous' - a book written by P D Ouspensky who met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915 and who studied under him for several years. | | | I teach people how to listen to themselves." The teaching addresses the question of man's place in the Universe and his possibilities for spiritual development. | | | Gurdjieff's Mission: Introducing The Teaching to the West, 1912–1924 Part II |
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| | Gurdjieff and His School |
| | The term has a very precise meaning in the Gurdjieff teaching, somewhat akin to the meaning of “monastery,” “ashram,” or “brotherhood” as they are used in the history of religions tradition, or as they are applied, say to the school of Pythagoras or the schools of the medieval and Renaissance painters. | | | In any case, this central aspect of his teaching explains in part why at a certain level no comparisons of his teaching with traditional spiritualities are possible, while at deeper levels his ideas are being claimed by some activist followers of all the traditions and denied by others as spiritually invalid. | | | Although there is an increasing recognition of the importance of G. Gurdjieff in the spiritual landscape of the twentieth century, his name continues to evoke a variety of reactions throughout the world, ranging from awe and reverence to suspicion and hostility. |
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| | CESNUR 2001 - Gurdjieff's Changes (Wellbeloved) |
| | Gurdjieff’s obscure spiritual lineage has allowed for the appropriation or absorption of his teaching by those claiming knowledge of its sources in, for example, Hinduism, Western European Occultism, Sufism, Theosophy, or Orthodox Christianity. | | | However, Gurdjieff did adapt ‘his enneagram’ which has a form and a numerology that is connected with the Tree of Life and the zodiac. | | | Gurdjieff’s texts reflect both interests, they contain many occult references and are zodiacally structured. |
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| | Gurdjieff |
| | What makes a guru such as Gurdjieff attractive as a spiritual conquistador is rather his more cynical beliefs, such as the notion that most human beings who are awake act as if they are asleep. | | | Gurdjieff also observed that most people are dead on the inside. | | | Other disciples find Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to be co-gurus. |
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| | Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Fellowship of Friends - Fourth Way School for awakening |
| | Unlike the other three ways of enlightenment (the way of the Fakir, the way of the Monk, the way of the Yogi), the Fourth Way, as Gurdjieff describes, must be found. | | | When you find a Fourth Way school that is led by one who has broken the chains of sleep and attained a higher level of consciousness, you are instructed to reach the full potential of your human evolutionary possibilities. | | | The Fellowship of Friends is a true Fourth Way school based on the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. |
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| | Introduction to Gnosis #20 |
| | The primordial trick of Gurdjieff is to have, in his teaching and practice, hidden the latent religious side and manifested the psychological.27 | | | His name was George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (pronounced "gur-jeef" or "gur-jeff"), and he proved to be one of the most challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic spiritual teachers of our time. | | | These three mystic ways [are] always open to the Muslim, the Christian, or Hindu who wishes to perfect his religion. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Gurdjieff: Making a New World (Sprittual Classics Editions) |
| | Bennett does his valiant best to wade through the obfuscation of Gurdjieff's teaching, to make it as clear as is humanly possible, without surrending his master's conviction that any struggle for insight can only come at a huge price both personally and spiritually. | | | Still I am not convinced that Gurdjieff was much more than a guy who read some esoteric books and had a bunch of unrelated bits of wisdom to proffer. | | | Not a biography of Gurdjieff, but an elucidatory analysis on the development and significance of Gurdjieff's ideas and how they relate to the modern world. |
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| | John Shirley: Gurdjieff |
| | Others intuit that the core of his teaching derives from a mystic school that predates all known religions and sects; a teaching that may be the taproot of all esoteric teachings. | | | Gurdjieff provided numerous techniques to this end - such as a form of sacred dance called the Movements, and an infinitely refinable discipline of meditation - which I am not qualified to discuss. | | | He spent years in monasteries in Central Asia, including a spiritual community in the mountains of Bokhara, the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan; he was apparently in close contact with mystics tucked away in the esoteric circles of the Russian Orthodox orders; he studied in Tibet and India. |
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| | Chronology of Gurdjieff's Life |
| | Where Gurdjieff himself actually stipulates a date, I bracket in the chronology a source reference (using the simple code explained in the References section). | | | The very date of his birth is in dispute, although Gurdjieff himself stipulates 1866. | | | Between then and 1912 we are chasteningly reliant on Gurdjieff's own four impressionistic accounts, which - in the nature of myth - are innocent of consistency, Aristotelian logic and chronological discipline. |
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| | Gurdjieff Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience Group of New Mexico |
| | Various Gurdjieff groups around the world, most notably those maintained by the Gurdjieff Foundation and Gurdjieff Society, work toward self-knowledge and inner freedom on the basis of a sober and informed, yet profoundly joyous faith in consciousness. | | | The new group will be dedicated also to living this approach in an attempt to help maintain the correct interpretations of Gurdjieff’s teachings and even to advance them. | | | Born in Alexandropol in 1866, in a region of the Czarist Empire that could be viewed as the seam between Europe and Asia, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff traveled throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa in search of knowledge concerning the psycho-spiritual possibilities of human beings and our unique place in the Universe. |
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| | Gurdjieff Internet Guide |
| | Gurdjieff's message is often misunderstood when the direction towards 0neness and God is not taken into consideration. | | | It reminds me of the story of a pilgrim, who thought he was on his way to Mecca and when he asked for the way was told: 'I am afraid that you will not reach Mecca, because the road you are on is heading towards Turkestan'. | | | The 'Good News' are that the Books, Articles, E-books, Links and some other sections will reappear at GIG in the course of 2005. |
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| | Gurdjieff Videos |
| | Follows Gurdjieff's search for pre-sand Egypt, beginning with the Sphinx and Great Pyramid, to Thebes and the Temple in Man and Karnak, to the Valley of the Kings, the Temples of Edfu and Abu Simbel, and into Ethiopia where he unexpectedly discovers the origin of the ancient teaching of the Fourth Way. | | | Films of Ramana Maharshi's devotees taken over the years at Sri Ramanasraman and the sacred hill of Arunachala. | | | The Life and Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Part II — Gurdjieff's Mission: Introducing the Fourth Way to the West, 1912–1924 |
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| | Comments on 18947 MetaFilter |
| | Ah, let me add Gurdjieff And The Kabbalah, Gurdjieff and Christianity and Gurdjieff and Sexuality for your syncretic completist pleasure. | | | These could even be described as meditations except they are active, involve some doing, rather than passive and contemplative. | | | disinformation has links concerning these, among others in their great Gurdjieff page. |
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| | disinformation george gurdjieff |
| | Nottingham is amongst the most perceptive interpreters of the Gurdjieff Work, and has also translated texts by Karlfried Graf von Durckheim and Meister Eckhart. | | | An important reminder that the Gurdjieff Work does not have obedience, faith, or blind belief! | | | Amis has subsequently published texts by St. Theophan the Recluse, Archimandrite George Capsanis, Bishop Eugraph Kovalevsky and Evagrius of Pontus. |
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| | Silva Mind Control, UFOs, Gurdjieff- Ouspensky, Swedenborgianism, Atheism- Marxism, Modernism |
| | Gurdjieff's "theology" leaves no place for the notion of the existence of an objective God who is other than the self... | | | - In 1956 he went to England, gaining a following among former disciples of Gurdjieff, and developed a process for surrendering to God's power (latithan): Prospective recipients enter a dark room, and wait. | | | In his book "Beelzebub's..." Gurdjieff talks about "a future prophet of consciousness", and many believe he is "Subud", a Javanese, on whom in 1925 a ball of light descended and overwhelmed him; an event called "a latithan" (God's power purifying the soul). |
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| | Enneagram and Process....tales of the octave. |
| | The most commonly known form of the enneagram is the "Fourth Way" form taught by Gurdjieff in the first half of this century. | | | It was claimed to be an ancient symbol being made public for the first time. | | | The enneagram as used by Gurdjieff is a diagram representing the "Law of Seven". |
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| | The DuVersity Library: The Fourth Way |
| | At the same time, we assume that Gurdjieff being an intelligent man did not believe that his ideas were the sole source of fourth way initiative in the world. | | | There are no clear cut indications from Gurdjieff about the relation between 'fourth way people' and the rest of humanity. | | | This is harmonious development, as in Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. To some degree, his series of movements or 'sacred gymnastics' epitomised this approach (in the learning of them rather than their performance). |
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| | The Gurdjieff Teaching |
| | This nucleus with the assistance of others who have subsequently been prepared maintains a series of centers throughout the world where Gurdjieff's methods are practiced. | | | For an introduction to the teaching of Gurdjieff, see | | | Gurdjieff prepared a nucleus of people to be able to transmit his teaching after his death. |
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| | TEACHING GURDJIEFF WORK |
| | It is not an invented teaching; it is knowledge from the past, gathered over many years, and with considerable hardship by Gurdjieff, and recast into a psychological teaching suitable for the West and present time. | | | Serious students will find echoes of it in the cores of all real religions. | | | I have been concerned with the Gurdjieff teaching for very many years and particularly, for the last 25 years, with a group in East Anglia, in the United Kingdom. |
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| | Lourens Hupkes since 1973 volunteer of Gurdjieff Foundation |
| | They all are invited to publish their personal texts or articles under their names here freely. | | | That evening I spoke with several people and I asked them about this writing group and its plans. | | | This is not a site of: GURDJIEFF STICHTING NEDERLAND |
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| | Big Sur Tapes: Gurdjieff, G.I. |
| | Gurdjieff was one of the most controversial teachers of the century. | | | This book is many people's primary introduction to Gurdjieff, emphasizing the intellectual side of his teachings. | | | This is Ouspensky's astonishing account of his search for meaning - the record of his years as a student of Gurdjieff and as an elaborator of Fourth Way teachings. |
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| | Gurdjieff, Self-Observation, Self-Sensing, Breathing |
| | Whether or not one agrees with Gurdjieff, his approach to self-observation and awareness—as described by P.D. Ouspensky in his book In Search of the Miraculous—has had a huge impact on many Western psycho-spiritual teachings, and provides an excellent starting point for anyone searching for a deeper understanding of herself or himself. | | | To my knowledge, Gurdjieff does not discuss this in his writings, but the actual practice of following the breath is an important part of the sittings as they were handed down by Gurdjieff. | | | It allows us to experience new levels of self-awareness, and by so doing to live more conscious, harmonious lives. |
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| | Gurdjieff Self-Study Group - Portland, Oregon |
| | Jerry and Russell welcome anyone interested in this aspect of the Gurdjieff teaching to join us and to bring any questions they might have. | | | Staveley for over 20 years and have had the opportunity to learn from many other experienced members of the Gurdjieff "Work," who had worked with Gurdjieff himself or his most senior students. | | | They are most happy to share their experience and the insights, which this intensive work has afforded them. |
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| | Gurdjieff, the Enneagram, and Tradition - by Jim Gomez. | | | Aspects of Gurdjieff's life and teaching - by Jacob Needleman. | | | This site takes a research approach to the wide variety of Gurdjieff sites on the Internet, and tracing the history and the branches of the Gurdjieff movement. |
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| | Nathan Bernier - The Enneagram, Symbol of All and Everything - Gurdjieff |
| | Directly, through oral tradition, he trained disciples who, in their turn, formed groups and continue his Work until now. | | | Gurdjieff influenced our present world in three different ways. | | | The third series, "Life is Real only then when 'I am'", contains five talks and a chapter on "The Outer and Inner World of Man," and ends unexpectedly and mysteriously. |
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| | Gurdjieff Message Board |
| | In 1912, G.I. Gurdjieff arrived in Russia from points unknown, bearing with him an extraordinary spiritual teaching drawn from ancient, secret schools throughout Asia. | | | The teaching, which has come to be known as "the Work," is dedicated to awakening human beings to their unseen state of sleep and fragmentation and to the miraculous possibilities that await those willing to make the effort to wake up. | | | And now you can set out on the way." -- G.I. Gurdjieff |
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| | Realization.org: G.I. Gurdjieff |
| | A moderated mail list devoted to the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, and their descendants. | | | This is Gurdjieff's magnum opus, a novel in which he attempts to "destroy, mercilessly... | | | An autobiographical account of Gurdjieff's youth and early travels, first published in 1963, organized around portraits of men and women who aided Gurdjieff in his journeys in remote parts of the Near East and Central Asia. |
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| | Gurdjieff Links |
| | Computer scientist, Gurdjieff, and African drumming and African spiritualism enthusiast Richard Hodges | | | Keith Jarrett's piano recording Sacred Hymns of G. Gurdjieff | | | , a student of Gurdjieff who also was with the Dalai Lama - |
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| | George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Movement, sacred dance, books, music, teaching |
| | goerg ivanovitch gurdjieff resources, teaching, gurdjieff movement, gurdjieff sacred dance, Spiritual growth, consciousness, awareness, awakening, spiritual teachings, book store, music, dvd video store, spiritual gift shop | | | Gurdjieff's bibliography, book reviews, links to online stores where you can buy Gurdjieff's books, music of Gurdjieff's teaching written by written by Thomas and Olga de Hartmann. | | | - A companionable, non-commercial group of independently minded men and women engaged in a practical and guided study of Gurdjieff and his teaching. |
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| | Gurdjieff Movements.com |
| | and originally appeared in the book, "Gurdjieff: Making a New World" ©Bennett Books, 1994. |
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| | The DuVersity Library: The Enneagram |
| | Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky | | | Gurdjieff first introduced the enneagram to his pupils in 1916. | | | Gurdjieff says about this that the interval is 'contained in' the higher do. |
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| | Gurdjieff Foundation |
| | The Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, with affiliated centers in Europe and South America, was created after Gurdjieff’s death for the practice of his teaching under the guidance of his devoted pupil Madame Jeanne de Salzmann. |
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| | The Gurdjieff Society |
| | The Society was formed soon after Gurdjieff's death according to directions he had previously given to Jeanne de Salzmann. | | | The Society is one of the four founder-members of the International Association of Gurdjieff Foundations (www.iagf.org). | | | You cannot even conceive a shadow of what man is capable of attaining..." |
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| | The Gurdjieff Foundation of Florida |
| | There is another reality which some have found. | | | We are a group of people in the Miami area who come together to work with the ideas that Gurdjieff has brought. | | | G.I. Gurdjieff left behind a way for modern man to find the meaning and purpose of life, to experience life actively and consciously. |
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| | Gurdjieff and Sufi Paths |
| | This site will explore the particulars of this relationship and the many synergies that exist between these two great teaching systems. | | | By their very nature, the Gurdjieff Work and Sufism are related. | | | These paths can lead to a real destination, unlike most of the trails that meander about the trackless wastes that we call our lives. |
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| | Gurdjieff's Teaching |
| | "Gurdjieff's Ideas About Man and the Universe" (lecture with questions and answers, 1986) | | | "The Gurdjieff Work" (lecture with questions and answers, 1992) | | | Review of The Theory of Celestial Influence, by Rodney Collin |
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| | Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | He taught that ordinary people could attain a higher state of awareness and take control over their lives. | | | He fled the Russian Revolution (1917) with a band of followers, settling in Fontainebleau, France, where he established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man (1922). | | | Disciples in the United States organized the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York (1953) and a similar group in San Francisco (1958). |
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| | gurdjieff and the fourth way - the path of inner alchemy |
| | If you are unfamiliar with Gurdjieff's teachings, in this section you will find his main works, all of them reviewed by our editors. | | | gurdjieff and the fourth way - the path of inner alchemy | | | Do you have any questions of general interest to ask? |
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| | Gurdjieff Elec. Publishing |
| | A subscription to the Gurdjieff International Review, a source of informed essays and commentary on the history, writings, and teachings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. | | | Gurdjieff Electronic Publishing is a nonprofit corporation established to conduct research, publish, and disseminate educational material to the public on the ideas and teaching of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. | | | Most of these individually printed essays are taken from various issues of the Gurdjieff International Review. |
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| | Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the Fourth Way |
| | As always, the only option is to decide for yourself, and be guided by your own spiritual light and intuition. | | | Gurdjieff and Work (html version - not fully formatted) - pdf version - Arvan Harvat | | | Psychobabble Triumphant - a cold look at the Gurdjieff-Ouspensky system - Arvan Harvat |
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| | Gurdjieff Foundation Of California |
| | and in accordance with the indications Gurdjieff gave his | | | closest pupils, the Gurdjieff Foundation of California was |
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| | The Gurdjieff Society of Australia was established in the 1950s and works under the direction of senior pupils of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York and the Gurdjieff Society of London. | | | Based in Sydney, we work with groups and individuals throughout Australia and New Zealand. |
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| | Breathing, Breath, Gurdjieff, Taoism, Chi Kung |
| | Through Natural Breathing, Taoism, Chi Kung, and the Ideas and Practices of G. Gurdjieff | | | Use HotBot to search our websites (breath.org and mountainwind.com), or to search the entire Web. | | | Please click here to go to our new, comprehensive, website |
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