Books in the Gurdjieff Canon

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything. New York: Penguin, 1992.

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Meetings with Remarkable Men. London and New York: Arkana/Penguin Books, 1985.

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Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am." London and New York: Arkana/Penguin Books, 1991.

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Views From the Real World: Early Talks with G. I. Gurdjieff. London and New York: Arkana/Penguin Books, 1984.

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These books provide helpful approaches to the rich system of ideas in the Gurdjieff teaching: 

 

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

 

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

 

de Salzmann, Jeanne. The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff. Boston and London: Shambhala, 2010.

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Dooling, D.M. A Way or Working: The Spiritual Dimension of Craft. Boulder (Colorado): Shambhala Publications, 1985.

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

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Lipsey, Roger. Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy. Boulder (Colorado): Shambhala Publications, 2019.

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For the video of Roger's May 2019 book talk at Potter's House Bookstore in Washington, DC, please visit our Videography page.

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Please see this article which appeared in the May 2019 issue of the Watkins Bookshop magazine (London).

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

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Needleman, Jacob. Introduction to the Gurdjieff Work. Sandpoint: Morning Light Press, 2009.

 

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 Real Question Remains: Gurdjieff: A Living Call. Sandpoint: Morning Light Press, 2009.

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

 

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