Michel de Salzmann, Footnotes to the Gurdjieff Literature, 1/100 Copies

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Michel de Salzmann

Footnotes to the Gurdjieff Literature

by the Society for Experimental Studies Armonk, New York 1983

 

This book was printed in a limited edition of approx. 100 copies. Here copy number 12

The text was set by hand in 14-point Caslon type

The paper is Strathmore Americana, Nantucket Ivory 80lb

Pages 30+4

23cm x 15,5cm

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher and composer. Gurdjieff taught that people are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic “waking sleep”, but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and serve our purpose as human beings. He described a method attempting to do so, calling the discipline “The Work” (connoting “work on oneself”) or “the System”. According to his principles and instructions, Gurdjieff’s method for awakening one’s consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus his student P.D. Ouspensky referred to it as the ”Fourth way”. Source: Wikipedia