PW: Why this book [Gurdjieff] now? John Shirley: People typically think their own era terribly dangerous and volatile—but ours does seem especially dangerous on a global scale. We puzzle over...wars, ...

(Classical Detours meanders through stylistic byways, exploring new recordings from the fringes of classical music.) Many westerners (me included) had never heard of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff until ...

The internationally acclaimed Gurdjieff Ensemble consists of leading musicians from Armenia playing Armenian and Middle Eastern traditional instruments. The Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to ...

George Gurdjieff arranged traditional chants and dances as piano miniatures. Now a fuller instrumentation is returning. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim The traditional ethnic hymns, chants and dances ...

George Gurdjieff was a mystic, radical teacher, and unconventional psychological thinker. Last month I posted a short, animated video about his ideas on not taking things too personally. This week, I ...

George Gurdjieff was a mystic, radical teacher, and unconventional psychological thinker. Last month I posted a short, animated video about his ideas on not taking things too personally. This week, I ...

When Armenian arranger and composer Levon Eskenian took on to reimagine the music of Armenian mystic and philosopher Gurdjieff for the Gurdjieff Ensemble's debut record on ECM, he touched upon the ...

What is it to be? Are we really awake to this state of being? Could we move to a higher level of being — if we made the effort? The Middle Eastern wise man and teacher G.I. Gurdjieff offered answers ...