Incontri con Gurdjieff. Trascrizione integrale degli insegnamenti trasmessi a Parigi in Rue des Colonels-Renard 1941-1943

by G.I. Gurdjieff

È il 1941. In una Parigi devastata dalla guerra, G. I. Gurdjieff continua a insegnare nonostante i pericoli e le difficoltà del periodo. Col gruppo di lavoro che gli è stato presentato da Madame de Salzmann, il maestro armeno tiene regolari incontri nel suo appartamento, durante i quali risponde su questioni pratiche del Lavoro e dà consigli specifici, esercizi e direttive.

115 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Armenian: Գեորգի Իվանովիչ Գյուրջիև, Georgian: გიორგი გურჯიევი, Greek: Γεώργιος Γεωργιάδης, Russian: Гео́ргий Ива́нович Гюрджи́ев, Georgiy Ivanovich Gyurdzhiev, or Gurdjiev) was an influential Greek-Armenian mystic, spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century, and a self-professed 'teacher of dancing'.

He taught that the vast majority of humanity lives their entire lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep," but that it was possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff developed a method for doing so, calling his discipline "The Work" (connoting "work on oneself") or "the Method." According to his principles and instructions, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness is different from that of the fakir, monk or yogi, so his discipline is also called (originally) the "Fourth Way." At one point he described his teaching as being "esoteric Christianity."

At different times in his life, Gurdjieff formed and closed various schools around the world to teach the work. He claimed that the teachings he brought to the West from his own experiences and early travels expressed the truth found in ancient religions and wisdom teachings relating to self-awareness in people's daily lives and humanity's place in the universe. The title of his third series of writings, Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am', expresses the essence of his teachings. His complete series of books is entitled All and Everything.