Book description
This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he
offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many
countries who joined him in Paris and New York.
The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material
crucial to an understanding of the nature and intensity of personal
effort required for an all-inclusive work on oneself. This is followed
by a series of talks which Gurdjieff gave to his pupils in New York in
1930, and then by a long, but incomplete, essay on 'The Outer and
Inner World of Man'.
Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol, and trained in Kars both as a
priest and a physician. For some twenty years, he travelled in the
remotest regions of Central Asia and the Middle East - this time was
crucial in the moulding of his thought. With his party of followers,
he was responsible for the opening of the Institute for the Harmonious
Development of Man.
Other key works available from Arkana: BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS
GRANDSON, VIEWS FROM THE REAL WORLD and MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN.
