Reply #11: Not a disciple but I've read a lot of Ouspensky. [View All]

[Stevepol]

I think he's the guy who provides the easiest access to Gurdjieff. The most interesting book is "In Search of the Miraculous" I think. Tells of the group that formed around G when he was in Moscow and St. Petersburg around the time of the beginnings of the revolution in Russia. If you get it, you may want to skip some of the denser chapters about the food chain, etc. Ouspensky wrote several books about The Fourth Way, as he and Gurdjieff called his approach. To my mind it's some of the most acute and powerful psychology and religion ever published anywhere. A lot of books have been written about these ideas. The key idea according to O ws the idea of "self-remembering." Really fascinating, thought-provoking reading.