Meetings with Remarkable Men
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. 303pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Spine rolled. Bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown. In the dust jacket, with light spotting, and a very shallow closed tear along the top edge at the head of the spine. Despite these flaws, the jacket is actually quite attractive. Very Good / Very Good. Item #68250
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George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1877?-1949) was a Greco-Armenian mystic and philosopher who "disappeared' in his formative adult years for some twenty years. All that is known about his whereabouts, is that he traveled in the remotest regions of Central Asia. These years were crucial in the molding of his thought. His basic claim was that human life as ordinarily lived resembles sleep; transcendence of the sleeping state takes work, but, when it is achieved, an individual can reach astounding levels of vitality and awareness. Gurdjieff established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in 1919 at Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia.
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