Peter Demianovich Ouspensky was born in Moscow in 1878. At the University of Moscow he studied natural science and psychology, and his first book, ‘The Fourth Dimension’, earned him immediate respect as a mathematical theorist. Ouspensky decided, however, to become a journalist and writer, contributing to the principal Russian newspapers, Read more
The Gnostic Schools If we look back to the first two centuries of our era, for an understanding of the state of affairs regarding the innumerable communities and innumerable modes of expression – communities united for the living of a life and systems striving to express the radiance of a Read more
The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. This book was originally published in 1908 by “Three Initiates” (often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson, 1862–1932) that purports to convey the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. The Kybalion shares with ancient and medieval Hermetic texts a number of traits Read more
In the years preceding 1920, one of gurdjieff’s pupils, A.R. Orage, had formed a group of practicing psychologists to study psychoanalysis from all sides. This group, which included Dr. Maurice Nicoll – one of Jung’s foremost exponents, reached the conclusion that the need in psychology was not psychoanalysis but psycho-synthesis. In 1920, P.D. Ouspensky, Read more