The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky

When P. D. Ouspensky was asked if he intended to publish his lectures, he answered: ‘What is the use? The most important is not the lectures but the questions and answers.’ This book consists of verbatim extracts from talks and answers to questions given by Ouspensky between 1921 and 1946. Chapter I is a general [...]

‘Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am’ by Gurdjieff

‘Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am”‘ was first privately printed in 1974. It is the incomplete text of the third Series of All and Everything by G. I. Gurdjieff. The book comprises a prologue, Gurdjieff’s description of five of his lectures (delivered on five nights starting November 28 and ending December 19, 1930) [...]

Meetings with Remarkable Men – G. GURDJIEFF

Meetings with Remarkable Men is the second volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. It was published in 1963 and tells the tale of the young Gurdjieff growing up in a world torn between his unexplainable experiences and the developing modern sciences. The book takes the form [...]

Gurdjieff, Enneagram and the Fourth Way

This essay will survey Gurdjieff’s central ideas, locate his sources and delineate the main reasons for his “Work”; explain chief methods and evaluate his place in the history of ideas and in the contemporary visions of human condition. 31 pages, download here: Gurdjieff Enneagram and the Fourth Way You might also be interested in Ouspenskys [...]