This website is intended to provide the reader with information on Fourth Way Instruction, G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky.

We intend on approaching it by the understanding of modern spirituality. The point to this is that the teaching of Gurdjieff is ageless but the history of certain events and the manner in which the teaching was conveyed is often colored by the times in which they were presented. This has a tendency to mislead students and convey something altogether imbalanced as far as personal growth might be concerned.

Just as the disciples of Jesus are partially responsible for today's understanding of Christianity, so too do the individual followers of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky present a teaching in the light of their own experiences and understanding often to the detriment of the golden thread which wound its way through the magical journey that Gurdjieff presented.

What will be discussed on this website is not only what went on in the teaching system by G. I. Gurdjieff and others but what was the esoteric teaching in back of time, space and change which found its way into the human realm and called Fourth Way Instruction.

This is not a jaded intellectual approach to Gurdjieff from an archaic male approach but rather an approach from an androgynous philosphical consciousness based on the True Essence of what Gurdjieff was Teaching despite the atrophied consciousness he had to deal with at the time. During this time of awakening there will be those who can go the distance Gurdjieff intended but could only prepare students yet unborn to follow with hopes that day would come soon. The day is here now.

East Meets West
Gurdjieff: "Thirty years ago, twelve of us spent many years in Central Asia, and we reconstructed the Doctrine by oral traditions, the study of ancient costumes, popular songs and even certain books. The Doctrine has always existed, but the tradition has often been interrupted. In antiquity some groups and castes knew it, but it was incomplete. The ancients put too much stress on metaphysics; their doctrine was too abstract."
When asked why he came to Europe, Gurdjieff stated:
"Because I want to add the mystical spirit of the East to the scientific spirit of the West. The Oriental spirit is right, but only in its trends and general ideas. The Wester Spirit is right in its methods and techniques. Western methods alone are effective in history. I want to create a type of sage who will unite the spirit of the East with Western techniques."
The above two revelations related by Gurdjieff was from a conversation with Denis Seurat in Fontainebleau in 1923 (related in Gurdjieff: Seeker of the Truth / Journeys to Remarkable Places by Kathleen Riordan Speeth and Ira Friedlander, 1980)
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