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Gurdjieff : an introduction to his life and ideas / John Shirley.
- Title
- Gurdjieff : an introduction to his life and ideas / John Shirley.
- Author
- Shirley, John, 1953-
- Publication
- New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BP605.G94 G877 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 301 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas, novelist and storyteller John Shirley offers a lively, deeply felt exploration of the man and his thought. Shirley brings together much of what we know of Gurdjieff's early life and education. Surveying the teacher's methods and the lives of his leading pupils, Shirley delineates the importance of the oral tradition in Gurdjieff's teachings and how it is carried on today."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-285) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Where We're At and Where We Wish to Be -- Meeting a Remarkable Man -- The Search Begun -- In Search of the Miraculous -- Three Mirages: Progress, Evolution, and Unity -- Finland and the Miraculous; The Caucasus and Revolutionary Psychosis -- Beelzebub in France and America; G.I. Gurdjieff Beyond -- "Gurdjieff. Not Will Die!" -- Farther up the Octave: Bibliographical Suggestions -- Are We "Food for the Moon"? -- The Octave and the Ray of Creation--and Theoretical Physics.
- ISBN
- 1585422878 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003061375
- OCLC
- 53007069
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library