Gurdjieff - Rare Remarkable

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff - parts of the only moving images (film, footage) of G.I.Gurdjieff 1947-49. Fourth Way. Movements. Ouspensky.

Suggested reading:

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949; London: Routledge, 1947. - P.D. Ouspensky

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Boston: Shambhala, 1996, and Samuel Weiser Inc., 1996, ISBN 0-87728-910-7 (6 volumes)

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff (1950)

Other books off on a tangent:

The Reality of Being, by Jeanne de Salzmann, 2010, Shambhala Publications, ISBN 978-1-59030-928-5

The Unknowable Gurdjieff, Margaret Anderson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1962, ISBN 0-7100-7656-8

Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma by J. G. Bennett, 1969

Gurdjieff: Making a New World by J. G. Bennett 1973, ISBN 0-06-090474-7

Idiots in Paris by J. G. Bennett and E. Bennett, 1980

Becoming Conscious with G.I. Gurdjieff, Solanges Claustres, Eureka Editions, 2005

Mount Analogue by René Daumal 1st edition in French, 1952; English, 1974

Gurdjieff Unveiled by Seymour Ginsburg, 2005

Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff by Thomas and Olga de Hartmann, 1964, Revised 1983 and 1992

IT'S UP TO OURSELVES, A Mother, A Daughter and Gurdjieff, a Shared Memoir and Family Photoalbum by Jessmin and Dushka Howarth, Gurdjieff Heritage Society, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9791926-0-9

Undiscovered Country by Kathryn Hulme, 1966

The Gurdjieff Years 1929--1949: Recollections of Louise March by Annabeth McCorkle

Teachings of Gurdjieff : A Pupil's Journal : An Account of Some Years With G.I. Gurdjieff and A.R. Orage in New York and at Fontainbleau-Avon by C. S. Nott, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1961

On Love by A. R. Orage, 1974
Psychological Exercises by A. R. Orage 1976

The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky, 1957

The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P. D. Ouspensky, 1978

Eating The "I": An Account of The Fourth Way: The Way of Transformation in Ordinary Life, William Patrick Patterson, 1992

Boyhood with Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters, 1964

Gurdjieff Remembered by Fritz Peters, 1965

The Gurdjieff Work by Kathleen Speeth ISBN 0-87477-492-6
Gurdjieff: An Introduction To His Life and Ideas by John Shirley, 2004, ISBN 1-58542-287-8

Gurdjieff: A Master in Life, Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch, Dolmen Meadow Editions, Toronto, 2006

Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse, 1980

Gurdjieff: An Approach to his Ideas, Michel Waldberg, 1981, ISBN 0-7100-0811-2

A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching, Kenneth Walker, 1957

Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts, Sophia Wellbeloved, Routledge, London and N.Y., 2003, ISBN 0-415-24898-1

Who Are You Monsieur Gurdjieff?, René Zuber 1980

Gurdjieff, Louis Pauwels, 1964

The Self and I: Identity and the question "Who am I" in the Gurdjieff Work, Dimitri Peretzi, 2011, ISBN 978-960-99708-1-5

Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study, by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, foreword by J. Walter Driscoll, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009 (HC)/2012 (PB), ISBN 978-0230615076 (HC), ISBN 978-1137282439 (PB)

The Shadows of the Masters, Leonardo Vittorio Arena, ebook, 2013.

Comprehensive biographies

Gurdjieff: Making a New World posthumous work by John G. Bennett, 1973, Harper, ISBN 0-06-060778-5
The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers by James Webb, 1980, Putnam Publishing. ISBN 0-399-11465-3
Gurdjieff: The anatomy of a Myth by James Moore, 1991, ISBN 1-86204-606-9
Gurdjieff's America: Mediating the Miraculous by Paul Beekman Taylor, 2004, Lighthouse Editions, ISBN 1-904998-00-3. Reissued as Gurdjieff's Invention of America 2007, Eureka Editions.
G. I. Gurdjieff: A New Life by Paul Beekman Taylor, 2008, Eureka Editions, ISBN 978-90-72395-57-3

Music

G.I. Gurdjieff Sacred Hymns, by Keith Jarrett, ECM, 1980
Seekers of the Truth: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume One, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992
Reading of a Sacred Book: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Two, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992
Words for a Hymn to the Sun: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Three, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992
Gurdjieff/deHartmann, piano music pianist Elsa Denzey, GFT (record label), 1998
Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements, by Wim van Dullemen, Channel Classics, 1999
Thomas de Hartmann: Music for Gurdjieff's '39 Series' , by Wim van Dullemen, Channel Classics, 2001
Chants, Hymns and Dances, by Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, ECM, 2004
Melos, by Anja Lechner, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and U.T. Gandhi, ECM, 2008
The Way of the Sly Man, by Dave Morgan, Being Time, 2010
Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff, by Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble, ECM, 2011

[IrieBlessJah]

Im a part of the Salzmann family, my great granfather, Alexandre De Salzmann got my family on the 4th way. As someone growing up in the groups and living by its teachings, all I can say is, Be here, now.

[tarangita]

Gurdjieff used to say that if you start getting disidentified from things, sooner or later you will fall upon your essential being. That is the basic meaning of renunciation. Renunciation does not mean, sannyas does not mean, renouncing the world and escaping to the Himalayas or to a monastery -- because if you escape from the world and go to a monastery, nothing is going to change. You carry the same mind. here in the world, the house was yours, and the wife was yours; there the monastery will be yours, the religion will be yours. It will not make much difference. The 'mine' will persist. It is a mind-attitude -- it has nothing to do with any outside space. It is an inner illusion, an inner dream, an inner sleep.
Renunciation means: wherever you are, there is no need to renounce the things because in the first place you never possessed them. It is foolish to talk about renunciation. It means as if you were the possessor and now you are renouncing. How can you renounce something which you never possessed? Renunciation means coming to know that you cannot possess anything. You can use, at the most, but you cannot possess. You are not going to be here forever -- how can you possess? It is impossible to possess anything. You can use and you can be grateful to things that they allow themselves to be used. You should be thankful to things that they allow themselves to be used. They become means, but you cannot possess them.
Dropping the idea of ownership is renunciation. Renunciation is not dropping the possessions but possessiveness. And this is what Gurdjieff calls getting unidentified. This is what Bauls call realizing 'Ardhar Manush' -- the essential man. This is what Zen people call the original face. OSHO

[markoblazney]

This was a lovely homage to a most extraordinary man of earth.

[desoconnor]

A force major but kind, respective of the state of the beings in his space and yet encouraging thorough teaching . Eventually teaching ends for several reasons .

[Allrights]

I cry EVERY time i see this, tears of Love.. What an amazing Human being to have walked this Earth. Man nr. 7.5

[sjsoni]

All time great master walk on this planet. This planet, I think, indebted for this. Just tears starts rolling on the cheek. No amount of love is enough for him.

[kevinrai]

wow videos of Gurdjieff live. thank you for sharing

[ancientocc]

Thanks for this rare video, the mighty presence of this man is obvious in every second!

[rashmithapar]

I love him. l'm seeing his video for the first time and He is so magnetic

[frankindia]

It is such a gift to see these moving images of this extraordinary man and enlightened teacher.  We are so fortunate to be able to experience movies, short though they may be,  of various Masters here.  Though I once studied at the Pinnacle in NY under the guidance of Irmis Popoff, a student of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, I am now on a different path.  However, the truth of 'the work' and of his teaching resonates within me to this day, and every day.

[AMWLondon]

There is also a film called Gurdjieff in Armenia which is worth seeing that describes his background and teaching.

[markhughes]

..casual encounter with just some of this man’s material in the early 1990s put me on a ‘rolling high’ for more than three years I think..still there really waiting for the ‘next time’.. 5:22

[arvindjain]

Indeed Rare and Remarkable too !!A man of goodwill !! Thank you Aenschool !!

[jeremyhaines]

This is so very interesting
His neice called luba gurdjieff owned luba restaurant in London from the 1950s to the 1990s.

[AlicanKml]

I started questioning my existence at the age of 7, and as a child of a Muslim family at a young age, my first stop was the Quran. Then this wasn't enough for me. At the age of 13, I decided that this was not enough and continued to search in bitter anguish. I met Osho when I was 16, and at 18 I experienced kundalini in nature for the first time. I had an extraordinary experience that I didn't believe it, things were getting deeper and I was starting to get scared but I only felt good emotions and Love, my mind was still scared, then I needed someone like me or a servant, The only thing I was passionate about in life was my desire to search, there is no one like me around me, I wish there was one in the world. It is good to know that there are people like me, we will not turn back from our path. Now I am 19 years old and sometimes I progress and sometimes I take a break. I could not focus on university because of reading spiritual books. Now I decided not to study at university. I will work and gain financial freedom with savings at an early age and continue reading the books of masters about my only passion, the search.

[sjsoni]

Gurdjief touched me more than anyone from the day one. have no words to say anything more. A most precious jewel on this planet

[suzkeeps]

In every scene Gurdjieff is aware of the camera rolling. Awareness. Thank you AENSCHOOL

[markoradulovic]

The message remains stronger than ever!

[vonmazur]

May you wake up and see yourself as you really are...

[SophiaFieldsDoA]

I don't just HEAR beautiful music, I feel it penetrating through me in every physiological sense!