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Books on: Gurdjieff

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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Jon Woodson; University Press of Mississippi, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans--Intellectual Life, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch--1872-1949--Influence, Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch--1872-1949--Views On Race, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual Life, Harlem Renaissance, Race In Literature, Toomer, Jean--1894-1967--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

How a Greek exile and mystic teacher influenced America's Harlem Renaissance
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In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching

Book by P. D. Uspenskiei; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1949

Subjects:

Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch--1872-1949

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...to his meeting in St. Petersburg with Georges Gurdjieff. It is Gurdjieff who is referred to, throughout the text of this...the record of Ouspenskys eight years of work as Gurdjieffs pupil. In Search of the Miraculous -2- Chapter...
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Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936

Book by Nelly Y. McKay; University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...3 ) I5I Chapter 7. The Gurdjieff Influence, 1923-1930 I79...religions with me and thus made the Gurdjieff philosophy more comprehensible; to Pat...movement headed by the Eastern mystic George Gurdjieff. Toomer had read and studied Eastern...
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New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography

Book by Elisabeth Arweck, Peter B. Clarke; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Cults--Europe, Western--Bibliography, Europe, Western--Religion--20th Century--Bibliography, Sects--Europe, Western--Bibliography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The first compilation that brings together publications on New Religious Movements (NRMs) from across Western Europe, this useful work includes titles written in most European languages. The Introduction provides an overview of NRMs since 1960 and places them in a global perspective. The literature ...
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The first compilation that brings together publications on New Religious Movements (NRMs) from across Western Europe, this useful work includes titles written in most European languages. The Introduction provides an overview of NRMs since 1960 and places them in a global perspective. The literature, from the late 1970s to the present, covers areas of study such as sociology, psychology, history, theology, and more, and will be of interest to scholars and students in many disciplines. The work is a companion piece to Diane Choquette's New Religious Movements in the United States and Canada: A Critical Assessment (Greenwood, 1985).
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Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit

Book by Robert B. Jones; University of Massachusetts Press, 1993

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, Phenomenology And Literature, Philosophy In Literature, Toomer, Jean--1894-1967--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...3. Landscapes of the Self: Art and Gurdjieffian Idealism 65...the Russian mystic Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. The two chapters which compose this...dimensions of Toomers art in light of Gurdjieffian philosophy. In chapter 3 I examine Gurdjieffian...

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Journal Articles on: Gurdjieff

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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

Journal article by C. K. Doreski; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance...Jon Woodson. To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance...18.00 paper. It would take a Gurdjieffian, literary modernist and African...
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An Intersection of Interests: Gurdjieff's Rope Group as a Site of Literary Production

Journal article by Rebecca Rauve; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 49, 2003

Subjects:

Flanner, Janet--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch--Influence, Mansfield, Katherine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Moore, Marianne--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An intersection of interests: Gurdjieffs Rope Group as a site of literary production...self-proclaimed spiritual teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Andersons French lover, Georgette LeBlanc...also published books and studied with Gurdjieff. These women (together with Louise Davidson...
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Lifework of Colin Wilson From Outsider to Post Tragic Man: Colin Wilson and the Case for Optimism

Journal article by Gary Lachman; Re-vision, Vol. 16, 1994

Subjects:

Consciousness

Collections: Entire Library

...writing about the Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff or the Dusseldorf sex murderer Peter...alternative thinkers like Rudolf Steiner, Gurdjieff, Jung, Ouspensky, and the infamous...revival of the sixties), T. E. Lawrence, Gurdjieff, Van Gogh, William Blake, Hemingway...
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An Introduction to the Spiritual/Transpersonal Path for the Scientificay "Handicapped"

Journal article by Charles T. Tart; Re-vision, Vol. 15, 1993

Subjects:

Consciousness

Collections: Entire Library

...disciplines, such as Sufism, yoga, or the Gurdjieff work, in which they described the psychology...with a certain kind of purity, what Gurdjieff called "essence." As Peter Russell remarks...drunkenness -- which is one category of what Gurdjieff called being "asleep" -- cost me until...
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Jean Toomer and Kenneth Burke and the Persistence of the Past

Journal article by Charles Scruggs; American Literary History, Vol. 13, 2001

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1923). Thus, in embracing Georges Gurdjieff in 1924 and in having a mystical experience...One might say that Toomer embraced Gurdjieff to escape Louisas madness at the end...Rudolph R. Jean Toomers Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936...

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Magazine Articles on: Gurdjieff

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Pierre Wack

Magazine article by Pw; Whole Earth, Spring 1999

Collections: Entire Library

...1922-1992) is considered the greatest teacher of scenarios. He guided Shell through the two oil crises. He was a student of Georgy Gurdjieff, a famous teacher of mysticism and the power of Will, and had a guru in India whom he visited each year. His guru called scenarios...
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A Certain Path

Magazine article by Margaret Croyden; American Theatre, Vol. 18, May 2001

Subjects:

Brook, Peter--Interviews, Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews

Collections: Entire Library

...How does your affiliation with the Gurdjieff teaching influence your art? I rigorously...avoid ever using anything of the Work Gurdjieff teaching. Where the two come together...natural relationship to elements in the Gurdjieff Work. But I would never ever use a method...
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20/20 Hindsight

Magazine article by Christina C. Sales; American Theatre, Vol. 11, April 1994

Subjects:

Operas--Production and direction, Sacharow, Lawrence--Production and direction

Collections: Entire Library

...same name by pre-revolutionary Russian author P.D. Ouspensky, which was itself based on the teachings of anti-Czarist guru G. Gurdjieff. The opera tells of Ivans quest to change the misfortunes of his present by reliving the mistakes of his past. It is a project...
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The Quest for Katherine Mansfield

Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; World and I, Vol. 15, January 2000

Subjects:

Mansfield, Katherine--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...important literary influence), and George Gurdjieff (her bogus mentor). I began to establish...parental consent. I found there was a Gurdjieff group in the town where I was living...this odd group confirmed my belief that Gurdjieff was a fraud who deceived and exploited...
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Wright on Stage: Monsters and Miracles

Magazine article by Mark Dundas Wood; American Theatre, Vol. 17, September 2000

Subjects:

Architects--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Wright, Frank Lloyd--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...Geometry of Miracles took its inspiration from the connection between Wrights third wife Olgivanna and Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff. This spring Manhattans Axis Theater staged Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenwright), a kind of nightmarish, 40-minute...

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Newspaper Articles on: Gurdjieff

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In the Footsteps of the Self-Elected

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, August 4, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...next chapter takes in Georgei Ivanovich Gurdjieff, the Russian-born Greek-Armenian whose...manic-depressive or paranoid schizophrenic types. Gurdjieffs coining of neologisms in his arcane writings...psychosis than has been generally supposed. Gurdjieff was sensationally effective in this regard...
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The Bulletin

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 29, 2006

Subjects:

Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Real World. Suggested donation of $20. He will lead a second workshop at 7 p.m. Tuesday called `Living from the Miraculous: Gurdjieff Work for the 21st Century. Suggested donation of $20. Taylor will also perform in concert at 7 p.m. Thursday. Child care available...
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Why Peter Brook Needed a Bigger Stage; the Legendary Director Makes a Rare Return to London This Week. His Biographer Explains Why He Left Britain at the Height of a Career Marked by the Most Shocking, Ravishing and Inventive Theatre

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 25, 2005

Subjects:

Brook, Peter

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...She was the leading exponent of the teachings of Georges Gurdjieff, the Russian philosopher and sage whose work Brook had been...himself and the world. Although he went on to make a film about Gurdjieff, this too does not seem a sufficient reason for his uprooting...
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The Joy of Sects; Books

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 23, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...fantastical inner worlds, and whose upbringing means they find it difficult to enjoy equal relationships with their peers. Gurdjieff, the tantrum-throwing Greek-Armenian mystic of the inter-war years, chose to blame his car crashes not on his own appalling...
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So Supercali but Mary Poppins Made Her Creator Sob

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 25, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...magic, mythology and tradition - what she called `the unplummable world. In Paris she came under the influence of George Gurdjieff, a mystic and philosopher from the Caucasus who surrounded himself with a circle of brilliant disciples. In her own life-long...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Gurdjieff

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Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GURDJIEFF, GEORGE IVANOVICH gurjef , jef , 1872 1949, Armenian spiritualist and author. After spending years traveling, Gurdjieff settled in Moscow (c.1913). He fled the Russian Revolution...their lives. Disciples in the United States organized the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York (1953) and a similar group in...
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Travers, P. L

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...author of several other books for children. Interested in the occult, she wrote a biography (1973) of her teacher, G. I. Gurdjieff . In addition, she wrote extensively about mythology; many of her essays were collected in What the Bee Knows: Reflections...

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