READING AND FURTHER INQUIRY
Perhaps the book most responsible for the spread of the ideas and cultural influence of Gurdjieff is P. D. Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous (1949.New York: Harcourt, 1965.) Gurdjieff himself left several books including All and Everything (1950. New York: Dutton; Arkana, 1992) and Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963. New York: Dutton, 1991) a spiritual auto-biography that in 1978 became a feature film directed by Peter Brook. Ouspensky's and Gurdjieff's books have gone through many re-printings and are readily available in hardback and paper.
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950) New York: E. P. Dutton; Arkana, 1992.
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963) New York: Dutton
Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago, as Recollected by His Pupils (1973) Foreword by Jean de Salzmann. New York: E. P. Dutton.
Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am" (1975) New York, Triangle Editions
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1949) New York.
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1st ed., 1950; 2nd ed. 1974, enlarged, New York: Vintage Press)
Toward Awakening, Far West Press, San Francisco (out of print)
John Pentland
Exchanges Within: Questions from Everyday Life Selected from Gurdjieff Group Meetings with John Pentland in California, (1997) New York: Continuum Press
Real understanding of Gurdjieff's ideas can only come through direct experience and verification, something the reading of books cannot provide. Accordingly, Gurdjieff established and oral tradition for the transmission of his ideas. Therefore, contact with a group is essential.
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