Exchanges Within: Questions from Gurdjieff Group Meetings With John Pentland in California 1955-1984

by Lord Pentland

Examines the concepts behind the teaching of Gurdjieff.

Genres: Spirituality

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[The Esoteric Jungle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lord Pentland worked hard to be in good fellowship with - and work indefatigably for & help fund - the true Buddhist and Hindu Temples in America in his day lasting unto now. He also had some meetings with Casteneda. He sometimes spoke of a dire necessity for a universalism that preserves all the traditions wisdom teachings not denigrates them into an indeterminate mush of “let’s all just get along and forget what was taught” as is being done among so many Unitarian movements today.

Gurdjieff choose him as his chief representative to the U.S. not only because he was more solid than 10 stoics, not only because he was a rare bird in modernity like Gurdjieff in wanting to salvage esoteric doctrines of the ancients, not only because his full title is Lord Henry John Sinclair 2nd Baron Pentland of the Sinclair family (a family that may be among the last Templars who came to America before Columbus and who certainly helped found a true proto-masonic America in Samuel Adam’s day before the Columbus’ protege East India Company groups started taking it all back over), but also he choose him because he was awake and knew himself. It will be odd if he is utterly forgotten to history in the coming generations, I hope not, but we live in strange days here in what Elliott Smith liked to call “the wild and wooly west.”