The Gurdjieff Work Kathleen Riordan Speeth
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Gurdjieff should also study the written works of Richard Rose. Gurdjieff was by no means a musician in the careerist sense of the word. His works do not fall in line as created and recorded for the purpose of commercial activity and furthering a life in music. In parallel with other spiritual traditions, Gurdjieff taught that one must expend considerable effort to effect the transformation that leads to awakening. They tried hard to do Gurdjieff's Work, and were in contact with John G. After many visits to the United States, over a period of more than ten years, Gurdjieff had become known to a rather large group of people, particularly in New York City. Any serious student of the teachings, ideas or practices of G. My Alexander teacher often tells me to watch little children to re-learn the effortless way to walk and use my body. Ive read one of his works," Beelzebub,s Tales to His Grandson", very interesting i thought, especialy the Mars stories, it gets a bit heavy in places, as its over a thousand pages. The best starting point is Rose's book, "Energy Transmutation, Between-ness and Transmission. The Alexander Technique and the Gurdjieff Work. They formed a small and very close Gurdjieff group–or, Rovner insists, a "company," as its members were "too individualist" to form a group.