Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man
The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in the Prieuré des Basses Loges in Avon near Paris was founded in 1922 by the Caucasian esoteric Georges I. Gurdjieff . It existed until 1932. After that, Gurdjieff continued to work with various groups and individual students in Paris (during the German occupation in the Rue des Colonels Rénard ) as well as on extensive trips to the United States .
The program of this esoteric school pursued the goal of enabling the students to fully and independently develop their human potential. Gurdjieff had previously worked in a similar way in Russia and in the Caucasus with students such as PD Ouspensky (who later separated from him) and Jeanne de Salzmann . The form of this work became known as the Fourth Way .
Gurdjieff's charismatic personality in particular attracted more and more international artists and intellectuals, including the publisher and editor of the epoch-making magazine New Age , AR Orage , the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright , the psychoanalyst Maurice Nicoll, and the physicist and mathematician John G. Bennett .
In France at the time, people were soon talking about the “forest philosophers”, as the institute was located in a large forest near Paris and from there dazzling stories kept coming out to the public. For example, the case of the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield was scandalized, who sought her last refuge with Gurdjieff in a moribund state and died of tuberculosis soon after under controversial circumstances in the Prieuré .
literature
- Bennett, John G .: Gurdjieff, Making a New World
- - ds .: Masters of Wisdom
- - ds .: transformation
- - ds .: Deeper Man
- - ds .: Witness
- Daumal, René: Mount Analogue . (1974)
- Fox. J .: Forty Years After Gurdjieff
- Gurdjieff, Luba: A Memoir with Recipes
- Heap, Jane: The Notes of Jane Heap
- Moore, James: Gurdjieff, the anatomy of a myth
- - ds .: GURDJIEFFIAN CONFESSIONS, a self remembered
- Needleman, Jacob: Money and the Meaning of Live
- - ds. and G.Baker: Gurdjieff
- Nicoll, Maurice: Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky . (1980, 6 volumes)
- Pentland, John: Exchanges Within
- Speeth, Kathleen Riordan: The Gurdjieff Work
- Tracol, Henry: The Taste for Things That Are True
- Vaysse, Jean: Toward Awakening . (1980)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is where the consciousness researcher Charles Tart Gurdjiews later tried to put ideas into practice on the basis of modern psychology, for example in 1986 in his book Waking Up : Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential. dt .: Live wide awake and conscious. Paths to the development of human potential - the guide to conscious being. Scherz, Bern 1988 - since 1995 Arbor, Freiamt