Thursday, April 15, 2004
Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas
GURDJIEFF: An Introduction to His Life & Ideas by John Shirley, TPB from Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., ISBN 1585422878. Gurdjieff, born in 1866 in the shifting border area between Turkey and Russia, was truly a spiritual pioneer. While many of his students were well-known, few understood this man of complex writings and sometimes confounding methods. Novelist John Shirley presents a lively, reliable explanation of how to approach the sage and his ideas. In accessible, dramatic prose he retells what we know of Gurdjieff, surveys his teaching methods and the lives of his key students, and helps readers to enter the unparalleled originality of this remarkable teacher. With notes and index.
