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Gurdjieff Music, Movements, and Seminars
Features articles and photographs regarding the Gurdjieff
sacred dances and movements, and the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music.
Also some brief material and quotations regarding Gurdjieff's
disciple John Godolphin Bennett.
The Summa Foundation
A 'Fourth Way' school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
that conducts lectures, workshops, and has library facilities for
members. Includes details of the methods utilised for 'self
remembering' and excerpts from a book in progress.
The
Gurdjieff Forum
Ongoing online
discussion since June 1996 of various aspects of the 'Gurdjieff
Work' in contemporary society. Often features engaging thoughts and
perspectives not found elsewhere. Forum involvement requires a
Promart.com generated password, which also enables access to the
site's archives.
SemioPhysics Feldenkrais Training
Journal and training centre that examines the direct
influence of Gurdjieff upon the bodywork of Moshe Feldenkrais, which
aims to enhance awareness of the instinctive and physical centres.
Valuable insights into the possibility of the Gurdjieff Movements as
an integrated body-mind psychotherapy.
Journey To Essence
Online newsletter of a 'Fourth Way' group located in Denver,
Tampa, and Phoenix (U.S.A.). The usual essays may be useful for the
new practitioner.
Claymont Society For Continuous
Education
Legendary seminar and
conference centre that continues the Gurdjieff/Bennett tradition of
intensive 'continuous education' environments focusing upon
sustainable living programs. The site includes a virtual tour of the
mansion and Bennett's landmark 1974 essay 'A Call For A New
Society.'
By The Way Books
Lists Gurdjieff Work and Fourth Way book titles, including
rare and out of print materials. Excellent mail ordering
service.
Mountain Wind
Site developed by Dennis Lewis, a member of the Gurdjieff
Foundation, and longtime student of Lord Pentland. Resources on the
relationship of breathing to health, and related materials dealing
with self-transformation.
Theodore J. Nottingham
Nottingham is amongst the most perceptive interpreters of the
Gurdjieff Work, and has also translated texts by Karlfried Graf von
Durckheim and Meister Eckhart. Amongst the site highlights is a
remarkable reply to William Patrick Patterson regarding 'The
Mouravieff Phenomenon', and a growing collection of essays and short
stories on spirituality for the new millenium.
Praxis Research Institute
A non-profit organization directed by Robin Amis that
researches, recovers, and publishes Esoteric Christian texts. Praxis
first came to public notoriety with the publication of Boris
Mouravieff's remarkable 'Gnosis' trilogy that linked the Gurdjieff
Work with the Eastern Orthodox Christian 'Philokalia' doctrines and
Mount Athos monastic practices. Amis has subsequently published
texts by St. Theophan the Recluse, Archimandrite George Capsanis,
Bishop Eugraph Kovalevsky and Evagrius of Pontus.
Tayu Centre
A unique 'Fourth Way' school founded in 1976 by Robert Daniel
Ennis, located on a small farm in Northern California. The Tayu
Centre reccommends the keeping of a daily diary and monthly dialogue
for the serious 'Gurdjieff Work' practitioner. The short essays
feature intriguing insights and practices not found
elsewhere.
Discovery Institute
Founded in New Paltz, New York in 1980, this Fourth Way
school has developed a multi-faceted program based on the philosophy
and techniques of Gurdjieff. Founder Frank Cocitto has worked with
the Practical Philosophy Foundation and New York's Waldorf School.
The site features archives of Cocitto's lectures and articles from
the roup's Chronogram magazine.
Gurdjieff Italian Web Pages
Italian web-site on Gurdjieff (with English translation!)
noted for its clear, perceptive comments about the possibility of
'degeneration' of his Work in the postmodern era, and lucid short
essays on Peter Ouspensky, Louis Pauwels, Rafael Lefort, Fritz
Peters and others. Features photographs not often found
elsewhere.
Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Music Home
Page
An often overlooked
aspect of the 'Gurdjieff Work', the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music
compositions have a unique effect on their audience. The authors
have perceptive comments on the compositions and their impact on
modern music. Features rare liner notes, photographs, essays, and
album covers.
The System
Webmaster G.W. Goodwin created this site to disseminate the
ideas of Gurdjieff and his disciples Peter Ouspensky and Rodney
Collins after dissatisfaction with 'The Gurdjieff Foundation' and
Robert Burton's school 'Fellowship of Friends'. Goodwin's insightful
comments about the dangers of 'Fourth Way' groups and his own
experiences with Gurdjieff's methodologies are riveting reading. The
sections on 'self remembering' are also highly recommended. Promises
to be an amazing site when Goodwin completes his planned
material.
Gurdjieff Studies Group
A 'Fourth Way' group located in London and Brighton (U.K.)
that also teaches the sacred dances, the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann
music, and the enneagram profiling system. The group also runs the
home-page for James Moore, a Gurdjieff biographer and scholar. Of
particular interest are the sections on cultural links and Gurdjieff
literature.
Experiment In Independent Thinking
This site contains rare original documents (public domain)
from the notorious Fellowship of Friends (Renaissaince) group,
detailing the psychological make-up of its founder Robert Burton,
the style of group dynamics used, and some bizarre internal belief
systems. Documents like the 'Slander Journal' are particularly
eye-opening. Not authorised, sponsored, or endorsed by the
Fellowship of Friends!
Hall of Heroes: Gurdjieff
'Knight of the Supremacy of the Will' by Sir. Hassein is an
informative essay that examines Gurdjieff's legacy, psychology, and
the Enneagram from the context of antinomian spiritual chivalry
practices within the Temple of Set's 'Order of the Trapezoid'.
'There is no Truth but Effort, otherwise known as Will' ~ ~
Gurdjieff.
fUSION Anomaly: George
Gurdjieff
Introductory profile of
Gurdjieff within the context of memetic engineering, with selected
quotes. Profile is part of an excellent site!
The Cult-o-Meter
An irreverent Gurdjieff-quoting cult diagnostic tool from the
people at 'Suck' that de-constructs cult awareness group rhetoric,
cult TV shows, relationships, New Media, and Canadians. Subversive
wit at its finest.
G.I. Gurdjieff and Wilhelm
Reich
An interesting long
overdue fusion: "The purpose of this site is twofold: 1) to
introduce the merger of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way with Wilhelm
Reich's orgonomy as a means of becoming more conscious and 2) to
share student experiences of this work as applied in practice to
daily life situations."
Gurdjieff International
Review
Edited by scholar J.
Walter Driscoll, this site is an informed source of critical essays,
commentaries, and rare documents concerning the Gurdjieff Work and
its later mutations. An absolute MUST for Gurdjieff fans. Updated
quarterly.
Charles T. Tart
Home-page and virtual library for trans-personal psychologist
and academic Charles T. Tart, who has extensively studied and
written about the Gurdjieff Work. Useful lectures, notes and related
material dealing with altered states of consciousness and anomalous
experiences. You can order his classic books 'Altered States of
Consciousness', 'Waking Up', and 'Living The Mindful Life'
directly.
The Fourth Way Gurdjieff Ouspensky
School
One of many
'Gurdjieff-Ouspensky' schools online (caveat emptor!). Useful
information on the psychology of conscious evolution and current
practices, and an excellent bibliography. Mandatory reading includes
the sections 'Errors On The Way' and 'False Schools & Sham
Religions.'
Telos Journal Online
The first regular international journal for the Gurdjieff
Work, edited by author William Patrick Patterson, who has an
orthodox interpretation of the Work's events and cultural legacy.
The journal article excerpts feature scathing attacks on 'Fellowship
of Friends' founder Richard Burton, and Russian aristocrat Boris
Mouravieff, whose 'Gnosis' trilogy linked the Gurdjieff Work with
aspects of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Telos often features
intriguing applications of the Gurdjieff Work to combat the ruthless
toxicity of the postmodern condition.
About Cults: Fellowship of
Friends
The 'Fellowship of
Friends' (Renaissance), founded by self-styled 'Fourth Way' teacher
Robert Earl Burton is one of the most controversial contemporary
groups. Burton never studied directly with Gurdjieff or Ouspensky
(he did study with Alex Horn), and is not recognised by the
Gurdjieff Foundation as a legitimate heir, but has promoted himself
as a self-proclaimed 'Teacher' who became notorious when his Edgar
Cayce-like prophecy of California falling into the sea due on April
11th 1988 failed to occur (he also claimed to be founding a 'New
Civilization' that would survive an Armageddon). The FOF promotes
itself by leaving 'Gurdjieff/Ouspensky' Centres bookmarks in stores,
despite several disputes with publishers and authors. This site by
Stella and Harold Wirk (who met Burton in July 1970 and studied with
the FOF until 1982) describes how this esoteric school began to turn
into a cult within three years, the group dynamics and
'authoritarian power god' processes underlying this transformation
(the school forgets its original aim and exists only to
survive/propagate itself), and the inevitably decline that followed.
Exercises designed to increase awareness of neuro-physiological,
social, and individual limitations became extremely regimented (see
the Wirk-Sheet and famous Hell Letter). This site contains letters,
e-mail, and distinctive portraits. An important reminder that the
Gurdjieff Work does not have obedience, faith, or blind
belief!
The Shadows Of Ideas: A Distant Glimpse Of
Gurdjieff
John Shirley captures
the enigmatic Graeco-Armenian magus George Gurdjieff in this
excellent essay, concluding with some invaluable insights on the
many counterfeit groups in existence today. Shirley studied in an
authentic Work group spearheaded by Jacob Needleman. Highly
recommended reading! |
