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George Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.
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culture · Russian Empire mystic and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949) · philosopher · composer · writer · screenwriter · choreographer · teacher · also George Gurdjieff, Georges Gurdjieff Ivanovitch, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff
Born 13 January 1866 · Died 29 October 1949 · Q217771
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You ask about the aim of the movements. To each position of the body corresponds a certain inner state and, on the other hand, to each inner state corresponds a certain posture. A man, in his life, has a certain number of habitual postures and he passes from one to another without stopping at those between. Taking new, unaccustomed postures enables you to observe yourself inside differently from the way you usually do in ordinary conditions.
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2026· 4 entries
“You ask about the aim of the movements. To each position of the body corresponds a certain inner state and, on the other hand, to each inner state corresponds a certain posture. A man, in his life, has a certain number of habitual postures and he passes from one to another without stopping at those between. Taking new, unaccustomed postures enables you to observe yourself inside differently from the way you usually do in ordinary conditions.”
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“Our aim is to have constantly a sensation of oneself, of one”
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El Ciudadano: Proponen una puesta audiovisual experimental en homenaje a George Gurdjieff con música en vivo, video y performance
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2009· 1 entry
Pianist Elan Sicroff released Laudamus: The Music of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, consisting of a selection of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann collaborations (as well as three early romantic works composed
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2005· 1 entry
And dedicated to the work of Gurdjieff
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1998· 2 entries
Alessandra Celletti released "Hidden Sources" (Kha Records) with 18 tracks by Gurdjieff/de Hartmann
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Then reissued as a 3-CD set containing 56 tracks in 1989
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1973· 1 entry
As Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, and Chicago, as recollected by his pupils
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1965· 1 entry
And established the Gurdjieff Society of Newport
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1950· 1 entry
Is the First Series and titled An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man or Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
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1949· 4 entries
Died 1949-10-29.
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“Friendly Advice [Written impromptu by the author on delivering this book, already prepared for publication, to the printer”
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Then was appointed as President of the Gurdjieff Foundation of America by Jeanne de Salzmann when she founded that institution in New York in 1953
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The Gurdjieff Foundation in Paris was established and led by his close pupil Jeanne de Salzmann in cooperation with other direct pupils of Gurdjieff, until her death in 1990; and then by her son Michel de Salzmann, until
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1948· 1 entry
“I was looking at a dying man. Even this is not enough to express it. It was a dead man, a corpse, that came out of the car; and yet it walked. I was shivering like someone who sees a ghost.”
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1947· 1 entry
Visited Gurdjieff in Paris many times
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1937· 1 entry
His brother Dmitry died, and The Rope disbanded
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1936· 1 entry
Settled in a flat at 6, Rue des Colonels-Renard in Paris, where he was to stay for the rest of his life
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1935· 1 entry
Gurdjieff stopped work on All and Everything
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1931· 1 entry
On Ouspensky's advice, he started his own Fourth Way groups in England
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1927· 1 entry
After he had trained at the Prieuré for a year
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1925· 3 entries
And his wife developed cancer and died in June 1926
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Which is the French variant of the Greek Evdokia; while the Alexandropol record of local families in 1907 lists her by the Armenian name of Yeva
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Moved to Paris to study at Gurdjieff's Institute, and re-established her group in Paris until 1935 when Gurdjieff sent her to London to lead the group that C
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1924· 4 entries
While driving alone from Paris to Fontainebleau, he had a near-fatal car crash
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Was appointed by Gurdjieff to lead the institute's branch in New York
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Gurdjieff made visits to North America, where he eventually received the pupils taught previously by A
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During the latter's first visit to the US
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1921· 1 entry
And then met Gurdjieff when the latter first visited London early in 1922
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1920· 1 entry
Spent August 1923 at Gurdjieff's Institute, became Ouspensky's pupil between 1922 and 1941 and, after learning that Gurdjieff was still alive, was one of Gurdjieff's frequent visitors in Paris during 1949
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1919· 1 entry
Gurdjieff and his closest pupils moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, where Gurdjieff's wife Julia Ostrowska, the Stjoernvals, the Hartmanns, and the de Salzmanns continued to assimilate his teaching
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1917· 1 entry
To return to his family home in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia)
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1916· 1 entry
Accepted the composer Thomas de Hartmann and his wife, Olga, as students
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1915· 1 entry
And spent the next five years studying with him, then formed his own independent groups in London in 1921
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1914· 1 entry
Gurdjieff advertised his ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians, and he supervised his pupils' writing of the sketch Glimpses of Truth
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1912· 1 entry
Gurdjieff arrived in Moscow and attracted his first students, including his cousin, the sculptor Sergey Merkurov, and the eccentric Rachmilievitch
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1875· 1 entry
Said that Gurdjieff was about three years older than him, which would point to a birth date c
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-01-13.
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