The Gurdjieff Society of Massachusetts

Books by G. I. Gurdjieff:

 

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950.  New York: Penguin Arkana, revised 1st ed., 1999.  (Both the original translation and the revised edition, closer in approach to the important 1956 French translation, have merit.)  

 

Views from the Real World: Early Talks of Gurdjieff, as recollected by his pupils. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973.

 

Meetings with Remarkable Men. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1963.

 

Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am."  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978.

 

Other written materials that provide helpful approaches to the rich system of ideas in Gurdjieff's teaching:

 

Conge, Michel.  Inner Octaves. Toronto: Dolmen Meadow Editions, 2007.

 

de Hartmann, Thomas and Olga. Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff. London: Penguin Arkana, 1992.

 

Lannes, Henriette. This Fundamental Quest: The Journey of a Pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff. San Francisco: Far West Institute, 2003.

 

Needleman, Jacob and Baker, George, eds. G. I. Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teaching. New York: Continuum, 1996.  

 

Needleman, Jacob, ed. The Inner Journey: Views from the Gurdjieff Work. Parabola Anthology Series. Sandpoint: Morning Light Press, 2008.

 

Ouspensky, P. D. In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1949.

 

Ouspensky, P. D. The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution. New York:  Hedgehog Press, 1950.

 

Pentland, John.  Exchanges Within. New York: Continuum, 1997.

 

Ravindra, Ravi. Heart Without Measure: Gurdjieff Work with Madame de Salzmann. Sandpoint: Morning Light Press, 2004.

 

Tracol, Henri. The Taste for Things That Are True. Dorset: Element Books, 1994.

 

Vaysse, Jean. Toward Awakening. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.

 

Walker, Kenneth. Venture with Ideas.  New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952.