Gurdjieff Making a New World Author:John G Bennett Gurdjieff was an extraordinary man who made a profound impact upon those who met him even casually. In the early 1920s he founded a school in France, popularly known as the "forest philosophers," and attracted a circle of remarkable men and women whose lives were changed by their contact with him. Nevertheless, after 1935 he almost dis... more »appeared from view and remained an enigma till the end of his life. His followers pledged themselves to perpetuate his work and to oversee the publication of his writings. Through their efforts Gurdjieff's ideas have penetrated into the world, particularly Europe and America.
Now J.G. Bennett, long both friend and pupil of Gurdjieff, has undertaken a mammoth task: to put Gurdjieff's mission into perspective and to indicate precisely how his three-volume All And Everything fits into this mission.« less