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Gurdjieff

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Gurdjieff
Georgei Ivanovitch . ?1877-- 1949, Russian mystic: founded a teaching centre in Paris (1922)


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Gurdjieff, reputed to be a crazy-knowledge teacher, secretly paid irritating students to attend his school, so disciples would be forced to stay on their toes, and be compelled to make progress in self-development.
George Gurdjieff was an early eastern mystic whose work I drawn to early on.
Ouspensky, a Fourth Way or Gurdjieff School leader, who near the end of his life in 1947 was very depressed (confusion and depression have been common ailments of lifelong disciples of the Western guru tradition).
 
 
 
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