Views from the Real World is a collection of early talks by the spiritual leader G. I. Gurdjieff compiled by his students. The book has been collected from meeting notes during sessions in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, and Chicago by his pupils. The first part of the book is the text: Glimpses of Truth – an account written by one of his Russian pupils, just before the Russian Revolution. This is the first—and probably the only one—of a series of essays on Gurdjieff’s ideas which he accepted that members of his circle in Moscow in 1914 should write. The author is not known. The second part is called Talks and is later sessions mainly from Western Europe. Download it here (285 pages):

 Views from the Real World G I Gurdjieff

You can find all books by G. I. Gurdjieff here on the site. Here are some of his major works: