George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was a Greek Armenian mystic who observed that humanity was getting more and more mechanical and automated. He pointed out that human beings are easily given to suggestibility, a condition he felt was killing personal inquiry and the passion to know the truth for oneself through experience. Gurdjieff claimed that deep conditioning and mechanicality i.e. the human condition in general, are akin to a state of waking sleep. Driven by a resolve to discover the truth about human life on earth, he set out to understand the inner workings of the human body and mind, and devised practical methods to make his disciples comprehend these facts for themselves.
With the deep intent to find the truth for himself, he undertook several journeys, at times with a group of friends and at times all by himself, mostly to the East. He travelled to Egypt, the Gobi Desert, India, Tibet and China. read more →