Book Description
Gurdjieffian Confessions: a self remembered is the vivid memoir of Gurdjieff's biographer James Moore, focused on his decades in London in the groups of Gurdjieff's magnetic pupil Henriette Lannes. As such it necessarily illuminates and populates a secret world. It is equally a book for those who relish Moore's zestful writing; for social historians of Western esotericism; and for all who would enter, even by proxy, into the way of Gurdjieffian search. Peter Brook aficionados will be entertained by a three-chapter evocation of the concerted Gurdjieffian effort which underpinned the film Meetings with Remarkable Men. And Moore's unique reprise of London's World of Islam Festival 1976 now has ironic, indeed tragic, topical bite.
From the Publisher
Gurdjieff Studies Ltd is dedicated pro bono publico to promoting the rich and many-facetted spiritual teaching of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff; and its publishing programme energetically supports that aim. Formally GS Ltd is a company [no: 4466370] limited by guarantee, incorporated in England on 20 June 2002; and registered as charity no: 1098600 on 17 July 2003. (To avoid confusion, note that GS Ltd is unconnected with the Californian 'Gurdjieff Studies Program'.)
About the Author
James Moore was born in Cornwall in 1929. Active in practical and thematic Gurdjieff studies since 1956, he has spoken on many national and international platforms; broadcast and appeared on TV; published in journals as New Scientist, The Times, The Guardian, Religion Today, Resurgence, Times Literary Supplement, The Friend, Network and Question de. His biography Gurdjieff: the Anatomy of a Myth has been translated into four European languages and Japanese. He contributed the Gurdjieff module to the authoritative Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. He is a Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society. Moore's aim in attempting this memoir he expressed as follows: "If I have helped to prevent an exciting and formative Work chapter from being sucked in the Black Hole of historical oblivion; if I have conveyed some sense of my teacher Henriette Lannes - her scale, her endeavours, her sheer valour - I shall enter my house justified."
