Gurdjieff 's Teaching

Essays, Lectures, and Reviews

• "Gurdjieff's Ideas About Man and the Universe" (lecture with questions and answers, 1986)
• "The Gurdjieff Work" (lecture with questions and answers, 1992)
• "Reflections on Thinking" (~1980)
• "Reply to Ron Hoeflin on Free Will" (1996)
• Review of Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets, by Russell Smith
• Review of The Theory of Celestial Influence, by Rodney Collin
• Review of Waking Up, by Charles Tart
• "What Is This Life?" (1996)

E-mail Lists
There are a number of Gurdjieff-related lists. Those listed here are the most active.
The posts are of highly variable quality. No single point of view predominates. Write to the moderator to join a list.

• FourthwayWork. About 250 members. Moderator: Jordan Weisz <[email protected]>.
• Gurdjieff Forum. About 300 members. Moderator: John Chickering <[email protected]>.

Gurdjieff Links (There are no links to "schools" here; searching for a school is an individual matter.)

• EBibliography <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8401/EBibliography.htm>
• Far West Editions. Publisher of Material for Thought journal and a number of interesting books and monographs. The focus is on the spiritual traditions, including much Gurdjieff-related content. <http://www.farwesteditions.com>.
• Gurdjieff International Review. Scholarly articles on Gurdjieff and his teaching. Edited by Gregory Loy and J. Walter Driscoll. Full text is available on the Web. <http://www.gurdjieff.org>.
• Gurdjieff Internet Guide (Reijo Elsner) <http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/>.

Background Links

• Photographs of Russia in the early 1900's (Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii) <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/>
• The Triune Brain (Paul MacLean) <http://www.ezls.fb12.uni-siegen.de/mkroedel/paul_maclean.html>

Reading List

Consciousness and Mind

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