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Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky, known in English as P. D. Ouspensky, was a Russian philosopher and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. He met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915, and was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He taught ideas and methods based in the Gurdjieff syst…

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science · Russian esotericist (1878–1947) · philosopher · writer · journalist · mathematician · psychologist · also Petr Uspensky, P. D. Ouspensky, Pyotr Dem'yanovich Uspensky, Peter Ouspensky, Pyotr Uspensky, Uspensky

Born 4 March 1878 · Died 2 October 1947 · Q434266

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s teachings in a book originally entitled Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, published posthumously in 1947 under the title In Search of the Miraculous. While this volume has been criticized by some of those who have followed Gurdjieff
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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
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1947· 6 entries

Oct 2, 1947Documented record86% confidence

Died 1947-10-02.

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Jan 1, 1947Documented record76% confidence

“s teachings in a book originally entitled Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, published posthumously in 1947 under the title In Search of the Miraculous. While this volume has been criticized by some of those who have followed Gurdjieff”

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1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Just before his death, but his own recorded words on the subject ("A Record of Meetings", published posthumously) do not clearly endorse this judgement

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1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Under the title In Search of the Miraculous

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1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Ouspensky, by then a very sick man, moved back to Lyne Place, England, without his wife who strongly opposed the move back to the U

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“It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”

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1924· 2 entries

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Announced that he would continue independently the way he had begun in 1921

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1924Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

For reasons that are explained in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous

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1917· 1 entry

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Updated these articles to include "recent developments in physics" and republished them as a book in Russian entitled A New Model of the Universe

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1915· 2 entries

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Spent the next few years studying with him, and supporting the founding of a school

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And was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on

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Worked in the editorial office of the Moscow daily paper The Morning

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1890· 1 entry

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Studied at the Second Moscow Gymnasium, a government school attended by boys aged 10 to 18

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1878· 1 entry

Mar 4, 1878Documented record86% confidence

Born 1878-03-04.

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