Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas Paperback - 2004
by John Shirley
A dramatic and literate introduction to one of the twentieth century's most influential and intriguing spiritual teachers.
Born in the shifting border between Turkey and Russia in 1866, G. I. Gurdjieff is a man who would continually straddle borders-between East and West, between man and something higher than man, between the ancient teachings of esoteric schools and the modern application of those ideas in contemporary life.
In many respects-from the concept of group meetings to the mysterious workings of the enneagram to his critique of humanity as existing in a state of sleep-Gurdjieff pioneered the culture of spiritual search that has taken root in the West today. While many of Gurdjieff's students-including Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Mansfield, and P. D. Ouspensky-are well known, few understand this figure possessed of complex writings and sometimes confounding methods.
In Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas, the acclaimed novelist John Shirley-one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre-presents a lively, reliable explanation of how to approach the sage and his ideas. In accessible, dramatic prose Shirley retells that which we know of Gurdjieff's life; he surveys the teacher's methods and the lives of his key students; and he helps readers to enter the unparalleled originality of this remarkable teacher.
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Born in the shifting border between Turkey and Russia in 1866, G. I. Gurdjieff is a man who would continually straddle borders-between East and West, between man and something higher than man, between the ancient teachings of esoteric schools and the modern application of those ideas in contemporary life.
In many respects-from the concept of group meetings to the mysterious workings of the enneagram to his critique of humanity as existing in a state of sleep-Gurdjieff pioneered the culture of spiritual search that has taken root in the West today. While many of Gurdjieff's students-including Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Mansfield, and P. D. Ouspensky-are well known, few understand this figure possessed of complex writings and sometimes confounding methods.
In Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas, the acclaimed novelist John Shirley-one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre-presents a lively, reliable explanation of how to approach the sage and his ideas. In accessible, dramatic prose Shirley retells that which we know of Gurdjieff's life; he surveys the teacher's methods and the lives of his key students; and he helps readers to enter the unparalleled originality of this remarkable teacher.
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I remember it vividly . . . When I was a rather lonely boy living in a rural area, I could usually count on Nature to lift me from my self-pity and sadness.
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- Title Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas
- Author John Shirley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 301
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date March 25, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781585422876 / 1585422878
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003061375
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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