Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1867 – 29 October 1949) was a Greek–Armenian philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher. 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. The practice of h… More