Author: Fritz PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
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Boyhood with Gurdjieff
Author: Fritz PetersBoyhood with Gurdjieff
Author: Fritz PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Boyhood with Gurdjieff
Author: Hirsch Giovanni PublishingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781957241043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fritz Peters became perhaps the most intimate student of his headmaster, G. I. Gurdjieff, founder of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France. This enigmatic, controversial, and mercurial mystic. Gurdjieff was more than just a teacher to Fritz. This stunning memoir covers Peters' first years at the Institute as he retains a child's naive perspective while offering a photorealistic recall of Gurdjieff, the workings of his intentional community, and the eccentric characters who lived there.
Boyhood with Gurdjieff; Gurdjieff Remembered; Balanced Man
Author: Fritz PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780974566764
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In 1924, at the age of eleven, Fritz Peters first met Gurdjieff, the great master who introduced the West to the teachings of the Fourth Way. This hardcover volume brings together all three of Peters' books on Gurdjieff for the first time. Boyhood with Gurdjieff covers Fritz Peters' time as a young troublemaker at Gurdjieff's Institute in Fontainbleau, France. Gurdjieff's unconventional yet strangely logical behavior made him the only adult who made sense to Fritz Peters. In a series of brilliantly told anecdotes, Peters relates Gurdjieff's impromptu and surprising responses to the day-to-day problems of the Institute. In Gurdjieff Remembered, Peters describes his adult encounters with Gurdjieff from 1932 to 1947. As an adult, Peters is more circumspect about Gurdjieff, but Gurdjieff still makes a huge impression on him as a man who lives in the present, heedless of the opinions of others. Peters' third and final book about Gurdjieff, the rare Balanced Man, which has never before been published in the USA, looks back at the previous two books, and to the future of Gurdjieff's teaching.
The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag
Author: Edward FieldPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299213234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York’s literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris’s Left Bank and Tangier—where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay—Field opens the closet door to reveal, as never been seen before, some of the most important writers of his time. Here are young, beautiful Susan Sontag sitting at the feet of her idol Alfred Chester, who shrewdly plotted to marry her; May Swenson and her two loves; Paul and Jane Bowles in their ambiguous marriage; Frank O’Hara in and out of bed; Fritz Peters, the anointed son of Gurdjieff; and James Baldwin, Isabel Miller (Patience and Sarah), Tobias Schneebaum, Robert Friend, and many others. With its intimate portraits, Field’s memoir brings back a forgotten era—postwar bohemia—bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.
My Journey with a Mystic
Author: Fritz PetersPublisher: Tale Weaver
ISBN: 9780942139006
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The author recounts his boyhood friendship with Gurdjieff, shares his impressions of the philosopher, and attempts to depict his complex personality
My Dear Father Gurdjieff
Author: Nikolai De StjernvallPublisher: Bardic Press
ISBN: 9781906834012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Nikolai de Stjernvall was always close to his "dear father," G.I. Gurdjieff, but especially so during the few months between 1937 and 1938 when he served as his father's attendant and collected such rich experiences. As the only person who lived with Gurdjieff to ever write about him, Nikolai's account is invaluable for providing an intimate and human perspective of his subject unavailable elsewhere. Supplementing his memoirs are two texts by Elizaveta de Stjernvall, his mother, including her account of her trek with Gurdjieff 's entourage across the Caucasus evading the Russian Revolution, and Adele Kafian's account of caring for Katherine Mansfield at Gurdjieff 's Institute during her final days. Nikolai's frankness, Elizaveta's devotion, and Adele's compassion are all faithfully maintained in the translation of Paul Beekman Taylor, Nikolai's boyhood friend who also lived at the Prieure in his youth.
Dawn of the New Everything
Author: Jaron LanierPublisher: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN: 1627794093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The guru of virtual reality looks back at the unique experiences that formed his vision for the future of technology With a singular voice and perspective, Lanier who The New York Times calls "daringly original . . . a major wizard in the futurist circus. He is the father of virtual reality in the gaudy, reputation-burnishing way that Michael Jackson was the king of pop" considers the future of virtual technology in a book that blends memoir with ideas. He tells the wild story of his own relationship with technology by starting from the beginning. The son of Jewish immigrants and concentration camp survivors, raised in the UFO territory of New Mexico, he lost his mother at a young age and built a geodesic dome with his father in the desert. He worked as a goatherd and midwife, attended college before graduating high school, transferred to and failed out of a tony northeast liberal arts college, played music for money on the streets of New York, and eventually landed in Silicon Valley at the dawn of the first tech boom where he suddenly became rich. This crazy course to becoming a world renowned technology guru informs Lanier's optimism about virtual reality--the technology he has been immersed in from its very start. While he has been very critical of social media and other manifestations of technology, he believes that virtual reality can actually make our lives richer and fuller.Dawn of the New Everything is ultimately a look at what it means to be human in the dawn of unprecedented technological possibility.
Luba Gurdjieff
Author: Luba Gurdjieff EverittPublisher: S L G Books
ISBN: 9780943389226
Category : Cooking, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a child, Luba Gurdjieff fled revolutionary Russia with her family for the refuge of her uncle G. I. Gurdjieff's spiritual school in France. She wa raised amid artists, intellectuals, and politicians such as Katherine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, and Franklin Roosevelt, who came seeking her uncle George's insights to the riches of Eastern wisdom. Here is an intimate glimpse of this fascinating household and some of the secrets of the kitchen.
In Search of the Miraculous
Author: P. D. OuspenskyPublisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774643227
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This book recounts P. D. Ouspensky's first meeting and subsequent association with George Gurdjieff. It is widely regarded as perhaps the most comprehensive account of Gurdjieff's system of thought available. Many followers regard it as a "fundamental textbook" of Gurdjieff's teachings and it is often used as a means of introducing new students to Gurdjieff's system of self-development.