This volume presents a selection of writings based on papers originally presented at the G.I. Gurdjieff: Caucasian Influence in Contemporary Life and Thought conferences or, as they came to be called, the Armenia-Gurdjieff Conferences, which were held in Yerevan, Armenia in the summers from 2004-2007. Gurdjieff was born in Gyumri, Armenia, to an Armenian mother and a Cappadocian-Greek father, and was raised in eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus. According to his own accounting, he spent his early years traveling in Central ...
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This volume presents a selection of writings based on papers originally presented at the G.I. Gurdjieff: Caucasian Influence in Contemporary Life and Thought conferences or, as they came to be called, the Armenia-Gurdjieff Conferences, which were held in Yerevan, Armenia in the summers from 2004-2007. Gurdjieff was born in Gyumri, Armenia, to an Armenian mother and a Cappadocian-Greek father, and was raised in eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus. According to his own accounting, he spent his early years traveling in Central Asia, Asia Minor, Egypt, India, and Tibet in search of undiscovered knowledge. Eventually, after 1921, his work led him to Europe where lived, wrote, and taught until his death in 1949. Though not having received great popular attention, he remains an important figure of the twentieth century and his influence continues to grow into the twenty-first century. A growing body of secondary literature connected to the work of Gurdjieff has been produced in fields as disparate as psychology, philosophy, literature, health, ecology, and religion. The conferences and the book aim to provide a forum of exchange about the ideas, influence, and work of Gurdjieff, while making a contribution to the reintroduction of the work of Gurdjieff to Armenia, which had been cut off from his ideas and works during the Soviet period. The articles here reflect a range of work addressing key contributions and ideas of Gurdjieff, from more academic studies of All and Everything, or Beelzebub??? (TM)s Tales to His Grandson, to a discussion of the application of Gurdjieff??? (TM)s ideas and principles in the education of children, to a chapter on the music and of Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann.
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Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket. Writings based on papers presented at the G.I. Gurdjieff: Caucasian Influence in Contemporary Life and Thought conferences, 2004-2007; Chapters included are Gurdjieff and Greek Esoteric Thought'by George L. Beke, Laughter as Demolition and Reconstruction in Beelzebub's Tales by Michael Pittman, Introduction to the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann Piano Music by John Allen Watts, Preliminary Remarks on Soul-Making in Beelzebub's Tales by Michael Pittman, Gurdjieff's View of War by Otto Gonzalez, Gurdjieff's View of Education in Beelzebub's Tales by Michael Pittman, Gurdjieff and the Education of Children by Lillian Firestone, The Transformation of Substances and Human Meaning by Otto Gonzolez; 94 pages.