George Adie: A Gurdjieff Pupil in Australia by George Adie & Joseph Azize
A pupil of Ouspensky who met Gurdjieff in 1948, Adie led groups in England and then Australia from 1965 until his death in 1989. Included is a sketch of his life and a selection of his talks along with photos.
309 pp.
Price: $50.00
Reflections from the Shining Brow: My Years with Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lazovich by Kamal Amin
Egyptian-American architect Kamal Amin spent 8 years training with Frank Lloyd Wright and remained with Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, modeled on Gurdjieff's Prieuré, for 18 years following Wright's death in 1959. Amin shows what a powerful influence Wright was, as well as recording the intense and mixed relationship he had with Wright's wife and widow, Olgivanna Lazovich Wright, an early pupil of Gurdjieff's. Among the many people Amin meets at Taliesin are Svetlana Stalin, Karl Menninger, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg.
Paperback, 264 pp.
The Unknowable Gurdjieff by Margaret Anderson
A basic text of the secondary Fourth Way literature written by one of Mr. Gurdjieff's direct pupils. Margaret Anderson, co-editor of the legendary avant-garde literary magazine the Little Review, gives a sense of the times, the people, Gurdjieff and the teaching as he presented it.
212 pp.
Price: $14.00
The Delay of the Heart by David Appelbaum
Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an "initiatory ethics." Continues the line of thought given in Disruption and intimates a secret of delay that is behind all traditional teachings and suggests ways that a sensitivity to a sacred obligation emerges from the heart of human experience.
167 pp.
Price: $20.00
The Stop by David Appelbaum
The first in his three volume work on the interval (see Disruption and The Delay of the Heart), Appelbaum explores the moment of shock when a gap is created, evoking awareness, and ignorance passes to knowledge. Says Frederick Turner, University of Texas, "This is one of the most brilliant, interesting and utterly original books I have read. It replaces Derrida's despairing notion of absence with a full and potent foundation of presence."
154 pp.
Price: $18.00
Voice by David Appelbaum
Explores the subjugation of voice by thought and indicates means for reversing the authority of the sound and for freeing up the voice. Concluding that the poetic voice reconciles the search for semantic meaning with the raw, acoustical effect that free voice causes, Appelbaum proposes a new and radical interpretation of the truth of voice—that it is true if it provides a disclosure of our human contradictions.
155 pp.
Price: $35.00
Enneagram Studies by J.G. Bennett, Foreword by Anthony Blake
The enneagram is a universal symbol for understanding how a process in time could become organized to become an evolutionary event; one that is no longer "in" time but creating its own time to become a living structure that is relatively immortal. From the transformation of the Biosphere to the setting up of a scientific experiment; from manufacturing to aesthetic development; from the preparation of a meal to "The Sermon on the Mount," the enneagram is shown to be a key to understanding the very structure of intelligence itself.
144 pp.
Price: $20.00
Gurdjieff: Making a New World by J.G. Bennett
Bennett's best book on Gurdjieff. Explores his mission and methods of teaching. Photos and illustrations.
253 pp.
Price: $20.00
Idiots in Paris by Elizabeth and J. G. Bennett
These diary entries from John and Elizabeth Bennett cover the few months before Gurdjieff's death. The two diaries complement each other well: while J. G. Bennett is primarily focused on his inner struggles to implement Gurdjieff's teachings, Elizabeth Bennett gives a detailed account of the milieu and the psychology behind it, of which they were a part, describing the events and personalities around her as well as her own private difficulties and revelations. This 2008 edition contains new material—unpublished entries from Elizabeth Bennett's Paris diary and a foreword essay by George Bennett.
144 pp.
Price: $20.00
Journeys in Islamic Countries by J.G. Bennett
Fluent in Turkish and determined to investigate Gurdjieff's Islamic sources, 56-year-old J.G. Bennett set out in 1953 on a long journey through Islamic countries ending with a visit to Kars. Meeting with Islamic holy men, Sufis, Naq'shbandi dervishes, Yezidi priests and charlatans, Bennett seeks out hidden knowledge while giving an insightful and prophetic portrait of Islamic societies. In doing so, Bennett comes to a new appreciation of Gurdjieff. "The more I listened to the holy man the more I marvel at Gurdjieff. How was it possible for an Asiatic, gaining his knowledge in Central Asia to bring to the West a teaching that cuts right down to the roots of our problems? The complete transformation of our system to a world teaching has not yet been accomplished, but as I look at Emin Bey, a man of utmost goodness and purity of heart combined with great inner strength, I turn my thoughts toward Gurdjieff with an even greater respect than before."
243 pp.
Making a Soul: Human Destiny & The Debt of Our Existence by J.G. Bennett
A compilation of six of Bennett's 1954 talks. These include: "The Reason for Man's Existence on the Earth," The Human Organism and its Functions," "Consciousness and its Possible Transformations," and "The First and the Second Death of Man."
113 pp.
Price: $14.00
The Masters of Wisdom by J.G. Bennett
An esoteric history of the spiritual unfolding of life on this planet. Both a study of unconventional history and a vision of the workings of a higher intelligence on the Earth, and evidence for the historical existence of men who have in the past realized such a level of intelligence within themselves.
178 pp.
Price: $20.00
Sunday Talks at Coombe Springs: Practical Themes for Human Transformation by J.G. Bennett
Starting from a point of practical study, Bennett expands upon such subjects as "I" and "Not I," "Intention and Action," and "Understanding versus Knowing." These talks were given at a particularly creative period of his life when he returned to the practice of techniques he had learned from Mr. Gurdjieff but was still strongly influenced by his experiences with Pak Subud.
312 pp.
Price: $27.00
Talks on Beelzebub's Tales by J.G. Bennett
A series of lectures focusing on what Bennett takes to be the essential meaning of Beelzebub's Tales.
Index, 137 pp.
Price: $20.00
Witness: The Story of a Search by J.G. Bennett
This is the fascinating life story of a highly intelligent and gifted but quixotic seeker who moves from teacher to teacher—Gurdjieff, Idries Shah, Pak Subu and Shivapuri Baba, to name a few—in his relentless search to find himself. Bennett begins with an out-of-body experience during the First World War which is too bad, as the experiences that really formed him and with which he had to deal all his life—his birth, parents and childhood memories—remain unknown.
Photos, index, 352 pp.
Price: $32.00
Becoming Conscious with G.I. Gurdjieff by Solange Claustres. Translated by Dawn Wakefield and Paul Richardson
Solange Claustres first met Mr. Gurdjieff in 1941 during the German occupation of France. He soon put her in the position of leading Movements classes. His devoted student until his death in 1949, for over 60 years she has lived his teaching, and for many years has led her own Work groups in France. A rare and valuable book destined to take its place among the classics of the Gurdjieff teaching.
168 pp.
Price: $35.00
The Mirror of Light by Rodney Collin
A longtime student of P.D. Ouspensky's who, following his teacher's death, left England for Mexico to establish the teaching there. Collin's wife assembled and edited his notebooks, papers and talks following his death, and the result is this new cloth edition limited to 1,000 copies. Topics include sincerity and honesty, creativity, truth, marriage, the fourth dimension.
Hardcover, index, 18 photos, 95 pp.
Price: $25.00
A Recapitulation of the Lord's Prayer commentary by Meister Eckhart
This is an in-depth exploration of the Lord's Prayer with a commentary by Meister Eckhart. According to Gurdjieff "Most ancient prayers have nothing in common with petitions; they are, as it were, 'recapitulations'. By repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavors to experience what is in them—their content—with his mind and feeling, concentrating and reflecting on the real sense of each word—what it really means to him, how he can understand it. In this way, many ideas will become connected in his thinking and many thoughts relating to the words of the prayer will pass through his mind. And then it is precisely these thoughts which can do for him what he asks God to do." The prayer, according to Ouspensky, is divided into three and these three divisions are again triply divided.
159 pp.
Price: $30.00
René Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt
The first comprehensive biography of the gifted French avant-garde writer and poet best known for his Mount Analogue and A Night of Serious Drinking. At sixteen he began to teach himself Sanskrit so as to penetrate to the essence of Hindu philosophy, but it was the teaching of Gurdjieff that changed his life. Madame de Salzmann's role as his teacher is depicted, as is Gurdjieff's presence, in the closing days of Daumal's life.
Hardcover, 252 pp.
Price: $28.00
Beelzebub's Tales read by Margaret Flinsch (CD-MP3) by G.I. Gurdjieff read by Margaret Flinsch
So impressed was Margaret Flinsch when at seventeen years old she first heard a reading of Mr. Gurdjieff's book that she went to the Prieuré to see him and has been a student of the Work ever since. Completed in her 101st year, she made the recording because of her belief that "listening is the path to the subconscious mind." This set of four CDs in MP3 format contains the whole of Gurdjieff's magnum opus. The CDs can be played on a computer or other device equipped to handle the MP3 format. They cannot be played on an ordinary audio CD player.
CD-MP3
Price: $60.00
Seven Aspects of Self-Observation by Irv Givot
The process of self-observation as seen through the nine points of the Enneagram by a student of A.L. Staveley.
Hardcover, 88 pp.
Price: $15.00
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff's magnum opus, an esoteric jewel. Said A.R. Orage: "It is really an objective work of art, of literature of the highest kind; it is in the category of scripture." A must-read for all serious students of The Fourth Way.
Hardcover, 1238 pp.
Price: $45.00
Meetings with Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff
An esoteric work in the form of autobiography written to furnish, as Gurdjieff says, "the material required for a new creation." Reveals the depth and intensity of Gurdjieff's search which attracted to him significant influences whom he calls, "remarkable men." With them he travelled throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia to find the origin of an ancient teaching.
303 pp.
Price: $16.00
Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am" by G.I. Gurdjieff
The most esoteric of all Gurdjieff's writings. Material and exercises for the arising of objective and impartial mentation.
190 pp.
Price: $15.00
The Herald of Coming Good by G.I. Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff's "First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity." Gives descriptions and outlines of his Three Series.
96 pp.
Price: $10.00
Guide & Index to Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
This new and long-awaited second edition references all editions of Beelzebub's Tales, including the classic edition of 1950 and the later 1992 and 1999 editions. It also includes page correlation with foreign language editions, as well as a pronunciation guide, background notes and missing or variant text.
Hardcover, 564 pp.
Price: $60.00
Pronunciation Guide to Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
The voices of seven speakers, four of whom were present at readings attended by Mr. Gurdjieff, pronounce each of the unusual words appearing in the First Series. Of the three remaining speakers, one spoke both Armenian and Persian as a child; another is fluent in English and Slovenian; and a third speaks only English. The CD-ROM plays on either a PC or MAC.
CD-ROM
Price: $20.00
Gurdjieff Prayer Book
This beautiful hand-crafted volume with a corkskin cover and Egyptian papyrus endpapers gives all the prayers and hymns appearing in G.I. Gurdjieff's All and Everything. A unique offering showing a deep but little recognized part of Gurdjieff's teaching.
Price: $40.00
Gurdjieff's Oriental Suite
Compiled and produced by Gert Jan Blom, creator of the acclaimed Harmonic Development: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948–1949, the Oriental Suite is comprised of a 256-page hardcover book bundled with four newly recorded CDs. The CDs contain both the Paris orchestrations and the American versions of the eight public demonstrations of the Sacred Gymnastics and Movements at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris between December 13 and 25, 1923. The music, composed by Mr. Gurdjieff to accompany these dances, was orchestrated by Thomas de Hartmann and performed by an orchestra of 35 musicians. In January 1924 Gurdjieff and his students gave a series of public demonstrations in New York, Boston and Chicago. At Gurdjieff's request, de Hartmann adapted the full orchestral scores for a smaller ensemble in America. Both the Paris orchestrations and the American versions have been recorded for the first time by the Metropole Orchestra and the Little Orchestra. An addenda section features music intended for Gurdjieff's unfinished ballet The Struggle of the Magicians. The book is illustrated with many new photos and unique historical documents, as well as the recollections of people who were present for the demonstrations. Also included is the extensive press coverage generated during these public appearances. Among the recollections are those of P.D. Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann, Anna Butkovsky-Hewitt, Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch, Jessmin Howarth, Denis Saurat and J.G. Bennett.
Price: $99.00
Gurdjieff - Harmonic Development: Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948–49
I played objective music to make you cry, answered Mr. Gurdjieff to a question from Dorothy Caruso [see her A Personal History]. "There are many kinds of music—some to make laugh, or to love or to hate. This the beginning of music—sacred music, too, three thousand years old. Your church music comes from such but they don't realize. They have forgotten. This is temple music—very ancient."
Featured are 113 harmonium improvisations recorded in Mr. Gurdjieff's apartment in Paris. They are separated into four series: 1. First Series—recorded between April 1 and July 21, 1949 2. Mesoteric Series—recorded between July 22 and August 18, 1949 3. American Series—recorded between August 25 and September 27, 1949 4. Second Series—recorded between September 27 and October 16, 1949
This collection also includes the very first recordings of Mr. Gurdjieff's harmonium music played at the Wellington Hotel, New York City, between December 1948 and early February 1949—his last visit to America. These recordings also include several talks and stories as told by Mr. Gurdjieff to his pupils.
There is also an addenda section which contains several unlabeled pieces from the original wire recordings. The grand total of recorded pieces is thus 136—over 19 hours of music. All are brought together in chronological sequence on a single disc in MP3 format. Included also is a short 9-minute film made by Evelyn Sutta on several automobile trips with Mr. Gurdjieff during the summer of 1949. This disc will play on any computer with MP3 software installed and on most recent DVD players. An extra two-CD set in standard audio format contains a representative compilation of recordings; these discs will play on any CD player.
In addition, there is a handsome and copiously illustrated 144-page book with many previously unpublished photographs of Mr. Gurdjieff and recollections of people who were present when these recordings were made.
Price: $65.00
Diary of Madame Egout Pour Sweet: With Gurdjieff in Paris 1948-1949 by Rina Hands
Details Gurdjieff's "Science of the Idiots" toasts. Floor plan of Gurdjieff's apartment. Meeting with John Pentland.
Hardcover, photographs, 88 pp.
Jane Heap/Notes by Jane Heap
Jane Heap entered the Work in 1924 and by 1927 had been asked by Gurdjieff to lead a group in Montmartre. With Orage, she helped edit the English edition of Beezlebub's Tales to his Grandson. In 1935 Gurdjieff sent her to England to lead groups, which she did until her death in 1964. A.L. Staveley, a pupil of hers for 20 years, said, "She was an artist in words as well as materials of all kinds. The precision with which an idea was presented, the fact that it appeared as a picture rather than as verbal thought, was a little shock and entered a pupil as an unforgettable impression." After her death, her extensive notes were collected and a selection of these was published as The Notes of Jane Heap. This is a second selection.
Hardcover, 95 pp.
Price: $23.00
The Notes of Jane Heap by Jane Heap
Personal notes of a keen early student who Gurdjieff asked to teach. Gives real feeling and insight into the Work.
Hardcover, 158 pp.
P.D. Ouspensky: Pioneer of the Fourth Way by Bob Hunter
A biography of Ouspensky by an Australian writer and longtime member of the Work. It reveals, among many other things, that the austere manner in which Ouspensky delivered lectures was only a facet of his personality. In fact, he was warm-hearted in his personal dealings and had an extraordinary insight into people, as well as history and science.
296 pp.
A Woman's Work With Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Anandamayi Ma & Pak Subuh by Mary Ellen Korman
The spiritual life story of Ethel Merston based on her diaries and recollections is an important historical work, as well as a keen insight into many of the seminal teachers of her times. Merston was one of Gurdjieff's first English pupils and lived at the Prieuré from 1922 until 1927. Her seriousness and organizational abilities led Gurdjieff to put her in charge in his absences. Fritz Peters gives a wonderful account of what she had to put up with (he gives her the name Miss Madison) in his Boyhood with Gurdjieff. In India, she lived at Ramana Maharshi's ashram for many years. She gives a first-person account of his death and also the meeting between The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Anandamayi Ma (with whom she often traveled). She also attended many of Krishnamurti's talks and seminars in the 1930s, was a friend of Sunyata, Alain Daniélou, Krishna Prem and Swami Omananda. In the 1950s she was initiated into Subud by Pak Subuh at J. G. Bennett's Coombe Springs study house. At Mendham, she met again her friends from her Gurdjieff days—Mme de Salzmann, Mme Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann and Peggy Flinsch—and was introduced to Lord John Pentland.
"The life of a seeker of truth, Ethel Merston, is recounted in this English language book. Her extraordinary quest for enlightenment which led her to meet many of the eminent spiritual figures of the last century: G. I. Gurdjieff (and others in the Fourth Way, to which she remained faithful her whole life—P. D. Ouspensky, J. G. Bennett, Mme de Salzmann and Lord Pentland), Krishnamurti, Anandamayi Ma, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Ramana Maharshi, to name only a few. We follow her on her voyage from bourgeois England to the heart of India, a voyage as much exterior as interior. Her journal, kept daily, serves as Ariadne's thread for the author of the biography, who presents Ethel Merston's impressions and comments restored to us in all their freshness, and what each encounter brought forth in her. With Gurdjieff, she learned of the separation between the "I" and the "it," that is to say to realize that "it" thinks in us, that "it" moves, that "it" reacts, all automatically. This teaching was for her a valuable tool of discrimination in all her future encounters. She wasn't touched by Krishnamurti's teaching, although she found in it emphases on the conditioned mental process familiar to her. Of particular interest are her direct accounts of a meeting between Krishnamurti and Anandamayi Ma, who questioned Krishnamurti about the reason for his refusal of gurus, and the meeting between Anandamayi Ma and The Mother of Auroville. But it is Ramana Maharshi who made the greatest impression on her: "The idea of time is only in your mind. It is not in the Self. There is no time for the Self. Time arises as an idea after the ego arises. You exist even in the absence of time and of space." Of this Ethel Merston wrote: "All was new for me." She would return regularly to Ramana Maharshi's ashram, even being present at his death. The biography makes clear the differences between the teachings, and the bearers of these teachings, as experienced by Ethel Merston. It is thus a first hand testimony of evolved beings, with strong references to contemporary spirituality, as well as the impressions of a woman animated by the wish to awaken, with her doubts, incomprehensions, rejections and resistances, and her flashes of understanding, her maturing. An interesting work, reflecting an epoch and a search." —Revue 3e millénaire
"There are few comprehensive accounts of individual Western pioneers who were interested in Indian spirituality in the first part of the 20th century. Ethel Merston left an intimate record of her journey as she constantly questioned and searched for a remedy to relieve the malady of her soul. We owe to Mary Ellen Korman our appreciation for chronicling that time and bringing to life many of the people Ethel Merston encountered, and who we never quite knew as fellow seekers committed to the search for higher truths." —The Mountain Path, The Journal of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
"I found Ethel Merston's life story fascinating. The narrative completely absorbed me and I was captivated from the first sentence by both substance as well as style. Ethel Merston was an exceptional individual and it is wonderful that her story has finally been told. An important work with considerable research." —Ram Alexander, Editor, Death Must Die: A Western Woman's Life-Long Spiritual Quest with Shree Anandamayee Ma
Photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 324 pp.
Price: $25.00
Inside a Question by Henriette Lannes
A direct student of Gurdjieff in the 1940s, Henriette Lannes was asked after his death by Madame de Salzmann to move to London to unite the four separate Work groups established there. For the next 30 years Mme Lannes lead what was to become the Gurdjieff Society of London. Here are 51 of her talks and selections from her meetings.
201 pp.
Only 7 copies left.
Price: $40.00
Judas and Jesus: Two Faces of a Single Revelation by Jean-Yves Leloup
Incorporating the recent discovery of the Gospel of Judas with other gospels and various apocryphal texts, Leloup probes the deeper meanings of the biblical presentation to argue that Judas' betrayal was Jesus' idea. His betrayal would show the "evil" in humankind and set Judas by Jesus' side in eternity. "There where I am, " said Jesus, "is where I wish you, too, to be."
174 pp.
Price: $15.00
The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union by Jean-Yves Leloup, foreword by Jacob Needleman
In this new translation of the gospel from the Coptic, Leloup, an Orthodox theologian and professor of theology, philosophy and psychology, shows that this text—long condemned by the Church as "the works of the flesh"—is really the sacred initiatic union between male and female principles that once was the heart of Christianity's sacred mystery.
173 pp.
Price: $15.00
Living Time and the Integration of The Life by Maurice Nicoll
An original and learned inquiry into psychological dimensions, higher levels of understanding as they relate to time, eternal recurrence and man's integration. A noted British psychologist, once the close student of Carl Jung and later Ouspensky, Nicoll led Fourth Way groups until his death in 1953.
294 pp.
Price: $35.00
The Mark by Maurice Nicoll
A further elucidation of the themes explored in his The New Man, Nicoll examines the idea of sin which he takes in its original Greek meaning of missing the mark, as in a spear thrown at some object and failing to hit it. Subjects dealt with include the Parable of the Sower, the Grain of Mustard Seed, Metanoia, War in Heaven and Esoteric Schools.
257 pp.
Price: $35.00
The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ by Maurice Nicoll
Employing a rare example of intellectual intuition and erudition, Nicoll sifts the New Testament Gospels to reveal the esoteric teaching beneath their surface interpretation. Subjects include the idea of temptation, the Marriage at Cana, the Good Samaritan, Laborers in the Vineyard, Judas Iscariot, Sermon on the Mount, Necessity of Prayer, and the Kingdom of Heaven.
202 pp.
Price: $30.00
Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal edited by C.S. Nott
A basic text of secondary literature of the teaching of The Fourth Way in the West, C.S. Nott's journal covers the years 1923–1928 and also includes Orage's commentary on Beezlebub's Tales. The perspective and information given makes it an invaluable and unique source.
230 pp.
Price: $15.00
A.R. Orage's Commentaries on Gurdjieff's All & Everything edited by C.S. Nott
With his customary penetrating insight and lucid command of the English language A.R. Orage, the man Gurdjieff called "my brother," and the editor of All & Everything, provides a perspective and scale revealing riches previously considered inaccessible to all but initiates. Nott was Orage's good friend and a longtime student of Gurdjieff.
Hardcover, 136 pp.
Price: $18.00
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Dionysian Spirit of The Age by A. R. Orage
Before meeting Gurdjieff, Orage was thoroughly acquainted with the philosophy of Nietzsche and his concepts of the Overman and Good and Evil, as this small book shows.
Facsimile reprint of first 1907 edition
83 pp.
Price: $19.00
On Love & Psychological Exercises by A.R. Orage
Two of Orage's most important writings are now back in print in one volume. Also included is "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fountainebleau," Gurdjieff's aphorisms and over 200 exercises which Gurdjieff gave.
208 pp.
Price: $17.00
Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion by Ahmed Osman
Comparing the chronology of the Old Testament and its factual content with ancient Egyptian records, Ahmed Osman, author of Moses and Akhenaten and The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt, presents a cogent and insightful argument declaring that the major characters of Hebrew scriptures—including Solomon, David, Moses and Joshua—are based on Egyptian historical figures. Further, and more importantly, he shows how the major tenets of Christian belief—One God, the Trinity, the hierarchy of heaven, life after death and the virgin birth—are all of Egyptian origin. Compare this with what Gurdjieff says in In Search of the Miraculous.
Photos and index, 270 pp.
Price: $18.00
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas & the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels and Karen King
The recent discovery of the Gospel of Judas, newly translated by Karen King, restores the vibrant and tumultuous experience of early Christianity—as opposed to the unbroken procession of a uniform faith which has been systematically put forward. Elaine Pagels, a world-renowned expert on early Christianity, brings the necessary depth of context and subtlety for a true evaluation of the gospel's meaning and import. This new Judas the reader encounters is much in accord with how Gurdjieff spoke of him more than 70 years ago.
Index, 198 pp.
Hardcover, Price: $25.00
Softcover, Price: $15.00
Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time by William Patrick Patterson
The seventh and final book in William Patrick Patterson's survey of The Fourth Way, Spiritual Survival warns of Technology's challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. Explored in great and original depth is how the seminal teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way—the teaching for our time—offers the esoteric keys and practices to self-awakening in a radically changing, high voltage and mercurial world-time.
"William Patrick Patterson's books become more profound and exciting as time goes on. Spiritual Survival is one of the best so far, full of wonderful insights." —Colin Wilson, author, War Against Sleep
"In a world quickly becoming dominated by soulless machines, how does one keep one's soul? Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time is a guide to spirituality in a technology driven world. Rather than shunning technology and loathing it, William Patrick Patterson tells readers to consciously embrace it as part of their lives and learn to control it instead of letting it control oneself. Spiritual Survival is a strong choice for those feeling something is missing in their lives." —James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review
"Explores the seminal teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way in great and original depth through a detailed introduction, illustrative meetings and probes and essays of key esoteric ideas and practices of how to self-awaken in this radically changing world-time. In this seventh and final book on Gurdjieff's teaching, William Patrick Patterson warns that unless we learn to control Technology, it will control us. We will lose our spiritual heritage and simply become machine-like worker ants. Patterson holds that Technology is not different from us—it is simply our rational part developed to an extraordinary binary degree. To understand it, we must first understand ourselves and our potential which is the focus of the teaching." —Arizona Networking News
"G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way is an ancient spiritual teaching for modern times which directly confronts technology and its potential for damaging spirituality. Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time is a teaching guide presenting not just the concepts, but how to actually apply them in our ordinary lives. Case history examples pack a survey of philosophical and psychological ideas to complete a context that lets us know where we are, how we got there and what to do about it." —Diane C. Cox, Editor, The Bookwatch
No softcover will be published. Hardcover, notes, index, bibliography, 430 pp.
The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda by William Patrick Patterson
Since Castaneda's first book, The Teachings of Don Juan, readers have wondered about his sources. Here, shown concept-by-concept, is the primary source of Castaneda's ideas—Gurdjieff's Fourth Way. Also explored are don Juan's true identity, the meaning of Castaneda's "jump into the abyss," the life of the Nagual and his witches. Also included in full is the first reference to Nagualism, anthropologist Daniel Brinton's essay "Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folklore and History" written in 1894.
"Although inclined to skepticism about Castaneda, I found myself reading The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda with total fascination. As it tells just about everything, I imagine this will be the definitive book on Castaneda." —Colin Wilson, author, The Outsider and The Occult
"Patterson brings original insight into the forces and influences that formed Castaneda's sorceric adventure. Particularly interesting are the role of Anaïs Nin and the revelation of the source of many of Castaneda's supposedly sorceric ideas." —Mary Ellen Korman, author, A Woman's Work: The Life of Ethel Merston
"A must read for anyone who has followed Carlos on his extraordinary journey. The way William Patrick Patterson expounds on Carlos' teachings is astounding!" —Margaret Runyan, author, A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda
"This is the most brilliant and insightful rendering to date of the 'Ultimate Impeccable Warrior,' Carlos Castaneda, my father." —C.J. Castaneda
Eating The "I": A Direct Account of The Fourth Way—The Way of Using Ordinary Life to Come to Real Life by William Patrick Patterson
Expanded edition. Includes a gallery of 17 paintings depicting different stages in the journey.
"Most books on the Work, while quite valuable, are too dry. Eating The 'I' is a major step in changing that; here we have a real human being, like you and I, struggling with Gurdjieff's teachings, sharing moments of despair and moments of insight and liberation. I found it hard to put the book down." —Charles T. Tart. Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Univ. of CA, author of Waking Up
"Books about students and teachers are a dime a dozen. The general procedure is to either write about your teacher in hushed tones of reverence or be slyly critical showing your superior understanding of the teachings he or she transmitted. Not to be cynical, but having read hundreds of "spiritual" biographies certain patterns appear. However, with this book, my preconceptions were shattered. Here is an honest, perhaps brutally honest, recounting of a student's quest for knowledge. There is no attempt to whitewash or make petty points of one-upmanship. The story is recounted with a clarity and self analysis which is not often found in print, and while admirable, can be painful to read. The people portrayed are shown "warts and all", both teacher and student(s) are shown as individuals working towards true awareness, not as characters wearing masks in a spiritual psychodrama (as so many contemporary spiritual biographies seem to read).
"Eating The 'I' is not only a book about "the work" or the "fourth way" with specific reference to a period of teaching in America under Lord Pentland, it illustrates the very way in which "the work" operates. Here is spirituality in conflict, here is spirituality worked out in the alchemical furnace of everyday experience. The Fourth Way is not that of the ascetic, monk or saint, but that of a person using everyday life as his or her classroom. These concepts while outlined by various individuals within the book are also reflected in the actual conflicts and problems which the author discusses. He lives the "Fourth Way", so rather than being a set of beliefs, a spiritual system or a sequence of exercises (while it may contain such), it is a way of life.
"This makes Eating The 'I' a powerful read. You not only get an outline of the Fourth Way, but a taste of what it is like to live applying these principles within everyday experience. The uniqueness of such a presentation makes this work of exceptional significance to anyone wondering how a spiritual life can be had within the hectic modern world we live in.
"A truly magnificent work of great importance and of increasing relevance in a world in which spiritual values seem to be fast vanishing." —Thubten Drimay, Editor, Living Traditions magazine
Ladies of the Rope: Gurdjieff's Special Left Bank Women's Group - French Translation, not available in English by William Patrick Patterson
This is the first book to examine the Rope, the ladies-only group of spiritual seekers, all lesbians except one, that G.I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris' Left Bank. During his thirty-seven years of work in the West, Gurdjieff's creation of the Rope remains his most enigmatic. The conclusions reached by the author about why Gurdjieff created the Rope are as original as they are surprising and will be of serious interest to those involved with feminine spirituality in all its many forms.
Photos, notes, chronology, references, index, 330 pp.
Only 4 copies left, each author signed.
Price: $50.00
Struggle of the Magicians: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship by William Patrick Patterson
Explores the teacher-student relationship as seen through the lives of Gurdjieff and Uspenskii.
"The tension between the richly contrasting personalities of Gurdjieff and Uspenskii is a cameo of the problems with which the personal transformation tradition has had to contend....[A] finely-told chronicle of a classic event in occult history, set against the backdrop of overwhelming dramatic, historic events, effectively set into the narrative as date-lines." —Robert S. Ellwood, Chairman, Dept. of Religion, University of Southern California.
Struggle of the Magicians: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship - Greek Translation by William Patrick Patterson
The Greek translation.
Notes, references, index, 319 pp.
Only 2 copies left, each author signed.
Price: $50.00
Taking With the Left Hand: Enneagram Craze, The Fellowship of Friends, & the Mouravieff 'Phenomenon' by William Patrick Patterson
The first book to examine the spiritual theft and appropriation that marks our time. A detailed and well-documented study, it illustrates how the enneagram movement commercialized an ancient alchemical symbol, how Robert Burton, founder of The Fellowship of Friends, arrogated The Fourth Way teaching, and how Boris Mouravieff plagiarized and tried to appropriate it.
"A lucid and compelling account of conflict and charlatanism surrounding one of the most important alternative spiritual movements of our day. Indeed, one sees the crisis unfold before one's eyes, for the author does not hesitate to charge those he finds responsible for debasement of the message of George Gurdjieff with opportunism and self-inflation. This book is important as a 'white paper' for those concerned about the broader Gurdjieff movement, and as a case study for all students of contemporary spiritual movements." —Robert S. Ellwood, Chairman, Dept. of Religion, University of Southern California.
Taking With the Left Hand: Enneagram Craze, The Fellowship of Friends, & the Mouravieff 'Phenomenon' - Japanese Translation by William Patrick Patterson
The Japanese translation.
Notes, references, index, appendices, 185 pp.
Only 3 copies left, each author signed.
Price: $50.00
Voices in the Dark: Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices in Nazi-Occupied Paris 1940-44. Including transcripts from 31 of Gurdjieff's wartime meetings. by William Patrick Patterson Voices in the Dark weaves together the oppression and fear of the Nazi Occupation of Paris with the transcripts from 31 of G.I. Gurdjieff's wartime meetings. Voices that helped to mold the time speak out—Camus, Malraux, Sartre, Beauvoir, Gide, Daumal, de Gaulle, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and many others. Explored in depth is the little-recognized but powerful influence of the pseudo-occult in the ideology at the foundation of Hitler's vision.
"This is probably the most unusual book about Gurdjieff, himself the most mysterious and penetrating teacher of esoteric knowledge in the 20th century. Between vivid descriptions of the German occupation of Paris, in the early 1940s, as all Europe is engulfed in the horror of the Nazi death machine, we read of Gurdjieff, now in his 70s, calmly working with his students, probing, provoking, giving exercises and encouragement—two coexisting worlds, yet an infinity apart. I found the book totally absorbing and illuminating." —Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Psychologist, author, The Unfolding Self
Only 6 copies left, each author signed and numbered.
Softcover, photos, notes, references, index, 354 pp.
Exchanges Within : Questions from Everyday Life Selected from Gurdjieff Group Meetings with John Pentland in California 1955-1984 by John Pentland
Selections, questions, and answers of Gurdjieff group meetings led by the remarkable man that Gurdjieff chose to lead the Work in America, Lord John Pentland.
372 pp.
Boyhood with Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters, foreword by William Patrick Patterson
Long out of print, this special hardcover reissue of Fritz Peters' account of his five years with G.I. Gurdjieff ranks among the classics of Gurdjieffian literature. Only 11 years old when his aunt, Margaret Anderson, brought him to the Prieuré in June 1924, he immediately became devoted to Gurdjieff. Within weeks, however, Gurdjieff suffered a near fatal car crash. During his recovery the young boy became his "chair carrier." Other tasks included mowing the château's great lawns, kitchen boy, waiter and gatekeeper. He also was to clean Gurdjieff's room, no small task as Gurdjieff delighted in wrecking it. Peters was among the few to whom Gurdjieff gave individual lessons on the teaching. An acute observer and talented writer, Peters' crisp images and scenes, often hilarious, give a rare look at what life was like at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Peters' interactions with Miss Madison (Ethel Merston), Rachmilevitch, and Gurdjieff's dog Philos, as well as A. R. Orage and Gertrude Stein are quite telling. Said the writer Henry Miller of Peters' book, "It's full of amazing anecdotes and the wisdom of life."
Hardcover, introduction, photos, notes, index, 246 pp.
Only 5 copies left. There will be no softcover edition.
Discovering Gurdjieff by Dorothy Phillpotts
A member of the early Bennett groups in London, Phillpotts was among those who visited Mr. Gurdjieff at his Paris apartment at war's end. She gives vivid impressions of meeting Gurdjieff, the dinners and travels with him. Says Peter Brook, "Her book brings the objective and the subjective together giving a ground through which precious memories of the Work in its early and soon-to-be forgotten period can be shared."
271 pp.
The Work Life: Based on Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky and Maurice Nicoll by Beryl Pogson
Practical applications of self-observation and self-remembering. Pogson, a former student and secretary to Maurice Nicoll, gives accounts of work sessions.
262 pp.
Sherborne: An Experiment in Transformation by Allen Roth
The only first-person account to date of what it was like to attend J.G. Bennett's 10-month residential course at Sherborne Academy for Continuous Education, Sherborne, England.
Photos, index, 121 pp.
Price: $20.00
Fourth Way Themes - Volume I by A.L. Staveley
How to focus attention in practical ways during everyday life is explored in these three volumes by A.L. Staveley at her work groups. A pupil of Jane Heap's in London during the Second World War, Mrs. Staveley also met G.I. Gurdjieff afterward and attended his meetings and dinners.
99 pp.
Price: $22.00
Fourth Way Themes - Volume II by A.L. Staveley
Volume II of 3 volumes.
115 pp.
Price: $22.00
Fourth Way Themes - Volume III by A.L. Staveley
Volume III of 3 volumes.
175 pp.
Price: $22.00
Memories of Gurdjieff by A.L. Staveley
A pupil of Jane Heap in London from 1939–1959, Annie Lou Staveley met Gurdjieff after the Second World War. She gives a vivid first-hand portrait of Gurdjieff and the way in which he taught in these closing years. "If you were brave enough," she writes, "desperate enough, alert enough—or even, on occasion, surprised enough—you might see a reflection of what he saw at that moment for yourself; that is, the human condition as it appeared in one atom of humanity—yourself."
74 pp.
Price: $13.00
Gurdjieff: A Master in Life by Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch, Edited by Michel de Salzmann
Tchekhovitch, a former wrestler and officer in the Tsar's army, first met Gurdjieff in Constantinople in 1920. A devoted pupil, he traveled with him to the Prieuré and remained in contact until the end of Gurdjieff's life. These disarmingly simple anecdotes reveal how Gurdjieff used the circumstances of ordinary life to bring people to real life. His recollections of the last days of Julia Osipovna, Gurdjieff's wife, are a treasure in themselves. These direct and fresh perceptions make these days live again.
252 pp.
Price: $35.00
Toward Awakening: An Approach to the Teaching Brought by Gurdjieff by Jean Vaysse, Foreword by Lord John Pentland
A renowned French surgeon, Jean Vaysse met Mr. Gurdjieff in 1947 and began to attend group meetings. He later led them. Said Lord Pentland, "This is one of the first accounts to hint at the practical approach of giving attention to the sensation of the body."
159 pp.
Price: $17.00
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales read by Dr. Welch (CD-MP3) by G.I. Gurdjieff read by Dr. Welch
Dr. William Welch was a longtime student of Gurdjieff and a noted Fourth Way teacher. This project, the first of its kind, was begun in 1992 and lasted three years, two years before his death. This set of four CDs in MP3 format contains the whole of Gurdjieff's magnum opus. The CDs can be played on a computer or other device equipped to handle the MP3 format. They cannot be played on an ordinary audio CD player.
CD-MP3
Price: $60.00
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals by Colin Wilson
Not only did Atlantis exist but Wilson believes the civilizing force behind it was the Neanderthals. Not violent brutes as most think, Neanderthals had sophisticated mathematical and astrological knowledge, including an understanding of the precession of the equinoxes. They also possessed advanced telepathic abilities akin to the "group consciousness" evident in migrating birds and fish.
320 pp.
