Gurdjieff, a Master in Life

By Tcheslaw Tchekhovich

In January 1920, Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch, two decades of age, used to be a part of the Polish contingent of the Tsar's military in retreat to Constantinople. whereas haunted by way of stories of the atrocities of the Bolshevik revolution, he had a wierd instinct that there exists one other existence, a existence filled with which means. Seeing a poster saying lectures through P.D. Ouspensky titled "The old knowledge of the East published via a brand new present in Western thought", he determined to wait. This touch ended in Tchekhovitch's providential assembly with G.I. Gurdjieff, the fellow who might turn into his instructor and non secular master.

Gurdjieff: A grasp in existence chronicles 28 years of extreme interplay among grasp and scholar, and sheds clean gentle at the tools Gurdjieff used to open his students to an internal reality

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