Leeds Gurdjieff Society

The ‘Gurdjieff Work’ in the Northern UK

The Leeds Gurdjieff Society follows the tradition of the Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, which has been active in the Yorkshire region since the mid 1950’s.

All and Everything

After a lifetime spent in the teaching of a system of knowledge which he gave only to a small circle of pupils, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff decided shortly before his death in October 1949 to publish the first of a series of his books which expresses his ideas in the form of a ‘cosmological epic’ called ‘All and Everything’.

All and Everything is of special significance now, when the world is helplessly struggling to control the intensification of technical achievement which threatens to destroy the essential values and purpose of life. This book rediscovers the path which man was destined to follow in the universal scheme and from which he has gone so far astray.

Who was G.I. Gurdjieff?

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (ca. 1870–1949) was born in Alexandropol in the Caucasus. He spent the first part of his life undertaking anthropological and archaeological research in Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. His search took him to the lamaseries of Tibetan Rimpoches, to the libraries and mosques and monasteries of Asia, and to the great religious centres of Echmiadzin, Jerusalem and Bokhara.

After visiting many countries he reached the conviction that his researches had led him to a valid conception of the meaning of human existence, and having discovered methods, some ancient, others new, for the development of the powers latent in the human psyche, he founded in 1912 in Moscow the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. After the Russian revolution, this was moved to France.

Introductory Meetings

The Leeds Gurdjieff Society hold meetings in and around Leeds in the North of England. For more details please email: rb@fourthway.org.uk

A. R. Orage, who worked in Leeds as a school teacher, was Mr. Gurdjieff’s representative in America.

 

 

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