Updates
| Feb 23 2024 | Exploring the Mind (new chapter) |
| Feb 23 2024 | Exploring the Body (new chapter) |
| Nov 24 2023 | The chapters in the Search, Controversy, Methods, Successors and Legacy pages have been revised and updated |
| May 26 2023 | Inner Work Exercises II (new chapter) |
| Dec 8 2022 |
Inner Work Exercises I (new chapter) |
| May 20 2022 | Inner Work Principles III (new chapter) |
| Mar 10 2022 | Inner Work Principles II (new chapter) |
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, who brought an ancient esoteric
teaching to the West, was one of the most important spiritual teachers of
the 20th century. The impact of his ideas, teaching methods and powerful personality
continue to challenge and fascinate seekers of wisdom more than half a century
after his death. His teaching, known as ‘the Work’ - which has
come to be called the ‘Fourth Way’ - has greatly influenced spiritual
seekers throughout the world.
Assessments of Gurdjieff by students, followers, journalists, critics, scholars
and fellow spiritual teachers are bewilderingly diverse, ranging from ‘charlatan’
and ‘black magician’ to ‘extraordinary spiritual master’
and even ‘A Messenger from Above.’
In light of such a conflicting portrait of Gurdjieff there is a real need to
examine his life, teachings and influence on the contemporary world based on
an objective, balanced approach free from preconceptions or ideological bias.
The intent of this website is to bring together multiple perspectives from a
wide range of sources to examine and evaluate the Gurdjieff phenomena, with
the hope of stimulating debate and discussion rather than providing any final
definitive statement or conclusion.
