Psychological Illusions: Explorations of the G. I. Gurdjieff Fourth Way Teaching
Christopher P. Holmes was born in England, on October 7 1949, and raised in Ontario, Canada.  He graduated with a B.A. from Carleton University, Ottawa in 1971 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Waterloo in 1978.  He taught at York University, Downsview, Ontario over an eleven year period, amidst controversy over his investigations of mystical and spiritual psychology, science and psychic phenomena.  He co-founded with Anita Mitra, three centers–the Institute for Mystical and Spiritual Science, Maple, Ontario, the Rainbow Centre in Toronto, and  Zero Point in the Ottawa valley.  Christopher has also worked for twelve years as a forensic psychologist with young offenders and adults within the Ontario Ministry of Corrections.  He currently dedicates himself to furthering the aims of Zero Point-Institute for Mystical and Spiritual Science–currently in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Holmes has studied widely in modern psychology and science, as well as in the mystical and spiritual traditions.  In his view, the mainstream of modern thought is seriously misguided in dismissing the spiritual and soul nature of human beings, and in failing to explore the deep roots of human consciousness and the heart.  Dr. Holmes explains that a science of soul and spirit must consider the physics, metaphysics and cosmology of consciousness. Most importantly, it involves self study and awakening through the alchemy of psycho-spiritual transformation.  Christopher was introduced to the Gurdjieff teaching while a graduate student in clinical psychology interested in the development of consciousness within psychotherapy and in the broader nature of human psychopathology.   His early years of study were focused more on the Ouspensky version of the fourth way teaching, and it was only over the following twenty years that he began to fathom the depths of Gurdjieff’s masterpiece Beelzebub’s Tales and to apply the study of the sacred laws to the findings, theories and philosophy of modern science.