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The lives of Jean Toomer : a hunger for wholeness
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ISBN: 0807115487 9780807115480 Year: 1989 Publisher: Baton Rouge London Louisiana State University Press


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Gurdjieff : mysticism, contemplation, and exercises
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ISBN: 9780190064075 0190064072 0190064102 0190064080 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press

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"This is the first analysis of all of Gurdjieff's published internal exercises, together with those taught by his students, George and Helen Adie. It includes a fresh biographical study of Gurdjieff, with ground-breaking observations on his relationships with P.D. Ouspensky and A.R. Orage (especially, why he wanted to collaborate with them, and why that broke down). It shows that Gurdjieff was, fundamentally, a mystic, and that his contemplation-like methods were probably drawn from Mt Athos and its hesychast tradition. It shows the continuity in Gurdjieff's teaching, but also development and change. His original contribution to Western Esotericism lay in his use of tasks, disciplines, and contemplation-like exercises to bring his pupils to a sense of their own presence which could, to some extent, be maintained in daily life in the social domain, and not only in the secluded conditions typical of meditation. It contends that he had initially intended not to use contemplation-like exercises, as he perceived dangers to be associated with these monastic methods, and the religious tradition to be in tension with the secular guise in which he first couched his teaching. As Gurdjieff adapted the teaching he had found in Eastern monasteries to Western urban and post-religious culture, he found it necessary to introduce contemplation. His development of the methods is demonstrated, and the importance of the three exercises in the Third Series, Life Is Real only then, when 'I Am', is shown, together with their almost certain borrowing from the exercises of the Philokalia. G.I. Gurdjieff P.D. Ouspensky A.R. Orage George Adie Mysticism Meditation Contemplation Fourth Way Hesychasm Western Esotericism"--

Gurdjieff
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ISBN: 0203389859 1299477887 1135132496 9781135132491 9780203389850 9781135132644 113513264X 9781135132569 1135132569 0415248973 9780415248976 0415248981 9780415248983 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This unique book offers clear definitions of Gurdjieff's teaching terms, placing him within the political, geographic and cultural context of his time. Entries look at diverse aspects of his Work, including:* possible sources in religious, Theosophical, occult, esoteric and literary traditions* the integral relationships between different aspects of the teaching* its internal contradictions and subversive aspects* the derivation of Gurdjieff's cosmological laws and Ennegram* the passive form of ""New Work"" teaching introduced by Jeanne de Salzmann.


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Gurdjieff and music : the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann piano music and its esoteric significance
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ISBN: 9789004284425 9004284427 9789004284449 9004284443 1322984816 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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In Gurdjieff and Music Johanna Petsche examines the large and diverse body of piano music produced by Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) in collaboration with his devoted pupil Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956). Petsche draws on a range of unpublished materials and data from original field research to critically situate and assess this music within its socio-cultural and unique religio-spiritual

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