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neutron flux
13-04-2007, 02:56 PM
Here is a documentary series on Gurdjieff that might intrest some people:

Part 1: "What is the sense and significance
of life on Earth,
and human life in particular?" Who is G. I. Gurdjieff?

What is pre-sand Egypt?
Where did Gurdjieff travel?
How can we understand Egyptian monuments?
Was there a Christianity before Christ?
What is the source of Egyptian knowledge?
What did Gurdjieff find?

This is the question which impelled G. I. Gurdjieff's search for the origin of esoteric knowledge.
Gurdjieff believed that the esoteric knowledge of ancient civilizations contained the answer to his question and so set out to find its origin.


Gurdjieff in Egypt retraces G.I. Gurdjieff's journey and his discovery of the teaching of The Fourth Way, an ancient prehistoric teaching of self-development and conscience, which he reassembled and reformulated for our time.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3788194363580090765&q=Gurdjieff+in+Egypt

Part 2: Shot on site in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Constantinople, London, Fontainebleau-en-Avon, New York and Lascaux, this documentary video—narrated by William Patrick Patterson and based on his book Struggle of the Magicians—retraces Gurdjieff's mission to introduce the teaching to the West. P.D. Ouspensky's and J.G. Bennett's enigmatic relationship with Gurdjieff are explored. Particularly stressed are the "St. Petersburg Conditions" and Gurdjieff's technique of "divine acting."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-662405558105428301&q=Gurdjieff

Part 3:Shot on site in Paris, Avon, Mont. St. Michel, Lascaux, London, New York, and New Haven, the documentary traces Gurdjieff's life from his near-fatal car crash through to his giving meetings during the Nazi-occupation of Paris to his death in 1949. Examined in depth are the writing of his Legominism All and Everything and his relationships with Orage, Ouspensky and Bennett. Also included is the Rope and his final trip to the Caves of Lascaux.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6792396376650834022&q=William+Patrick+Patterson

cleft_asunder
16-04-2007, 03:50 AM
Viewing first part now.