George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Armenian: Գեորգի Գյուրջիև, Greek: Γιώργος Γκουρτζίεφ, Russian: Георгий Иванович Гурджиев) (or Gurdjiev); January 13, 1866? – October 29, 1949), was a Greek-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher. He called his discipline "The Work"(connoting "work on oneself", according to Gurdjieff's principles and instructions), or (originally) the "Fourth Way". At one point he described his teaching as "esoteric Christianity".
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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Armenian: Գեորգի Գյուրջիև, Greek: Γιώργος Γκουρτζίεφ, Russian: Георгий Иванович Гурджиев) (or Gurdjiev); January 13, 1866? – October 29, 1949), was a Greek-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher. He called his discipline "The Work"(connoting "work on oneself", according to Gurdjieff's principles and instructions), or (originally) the "Fourth Way". At one point he described his teaching as "esoteric Christianity".
At different times in his life Gurdjieff formed and closed various schools around the world to utilize his teachings. He claimed that the teachings he brought to the West from his own experiences and early travels expressed the truth found in ancient religions and wisdom teachings relating to self-awareness in people's daily lives and humanity's place in the universe. One could express the essence of his teachings in the title of his third series of writings: Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am', while his complete series of books goes under the name...
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