Any one of these could pave your way to meeting us. On a long journey by spaceship, the fallen angel Beelzebub good-humouredly imparts to his grandson Hassein his understanding of humanity's predicament and possibility. We strongly commend this book, well knowing how difficult it is, because it brings uniquely a taste of real being. These autobiographical sketches from Gurdjieff's adventurous early searches in Asia constitute a relatively easy book to approach. Yet any apparent thematic naivety is entirely misleading.
Closer examination reveals an allegorical subtext pitched at a spiritual level.
This unique and vibrant book was endorsed by Gurdjieff himself as an authentic expression of his integrated psychological and cosmological ideas, propounded to a select group of intimate pupils, during the crucial years of dramatic exodus from revolutionary Russia. Dr Nicoll, an eminent Jungian psychiatrist, was briefly Gurdjieff's pupil at his Institute in France. James George is a former Canadian ambassador. This is the fullest biography of Gurdjieff thus far available. It is illustrated and contains a chronology and substantial note section.