Meetings with remarkable men

✍ Scribed by Gurdjieff, George

Publisher: Penguin Compass
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 303
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive "read" in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on life, it is organized around portraits of remarkable men and women who aided Gurdjieff's search for hidden knowledge or accompanied him on his journeys in remote parts of the Near East and Central Asia.
This is a book of lives, not doctrines, although readers will long value Gurdjieff's accounts of conversations with sages. Meetings conveys a haunting sense of what it means to live fully—with conscience, with purpose, and with heart. Among the remarkable individuals whom the reader will come to know are Gurdjieff's father (a traditional bard), a Russian prince dedicated to the search for Truth, a Christian missionary who entered a World Brotherhood deep in Asia, and a...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: My father --
My first tutor --
Bogachevsky --
Mr. X. or Captain Pogossian --
Abram Yelov --
Prince Yuri Lubovedsky --
Ekim Bey --
Piotr Karpenko --
Professor Skridlov.

✦ Subjects

Gurdjieff Georges Ivanovitch 1872 1949 Philosophers Soviet Union Biography

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