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As the closest pupil of the charismatic spiritual master G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949), Jeanne de Salzmann was charged with carrying on his teachings of spiritual transformation. Known as the Fourth Way or "the Work," Gurdjieff’s system was based on teachings of the East that he adapted for modern life in the West. Now, some twenty years after de Salzmann's death, the notebooks that she filled with her insights over a forty-year period (and intended to publish) have been translated and edited by a small group of her family and followers. The result is this long-awaited guide to Gurdjieff's teaching, describing the routes to be traveled and the landmarks encountered along the way. Organized according to themes, the chapters touch on all the important concepts and practices of the Work, including:

· awakening from the sleep of identification with the ordinary level of being
· self-observation and self-remembering
· conscious effort and voluntary suffering
· understanding symbolic concepts like the Enneagram
· the Gurdjieff Movements, bodily exercises that provide training in Presence and the awareness of subtle energies
· the necessity of a "school," meaning the collective practice of the teaching in a group

Madame de Salzmann brings to the Work her own strong, direct language and personal journey in learning to live that knowledge of a higher level of being, which, she insists, "you have to see for yourself" on a level beyond theory and concept. De Salzmann consistently refused to discuss the teaching in terms of ideas, for this Fourth Way is to be experienced, not simply thought or believed.

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Publisher: Shambhala; 1 edition (July 27, 2010)
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
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Language: English
ASIN: B00AITRK92
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This is a Fourth Way Master's Class Reference Manual.

October 9, 2015

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A brilliant articulation of important ideas and accounting of corresponding efforts. This book resonates with De Salzman's deep personal sincerity in describing what it is like to commit all, or as much as of one's attention and energy as one can connect with and control, in a moment to moment 70 year pursuit of one's own highest cognitive and spiritual possibilities. ("Who am I - Who am I in this world?) This is no introductory overview of The Fourth Way, nothing casual about this book - De Salzmann's, THE REALITY OF BEING. Better first to have read "IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS", by P.D. Ouspensky. But as De Salzmann's account makes clear, The Fourth Way is not about books and intellectual exchange anymore than such may be necessary as trailmarkers for those on mission to answer the aforementioned questions. She makes clear that The Fourth Way is about effort, the effort to observe oneself over and over again, in a very special and different way, in the context of everyday life. Nothing I have read, nor anyone I have spoken to during 40 years of fitful dabbling in The Fourth Way, has provided such insight into the efforts and quality thereof to first verify and then implement Gurdjieff's teachings better than Jeanne De Salzmann in this book. This is a reference manual not a trophy book. Time's a wast'n. Good luck!

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swampflower

shining jewel

November 28, 2017

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highly highly useful book..... exceptionally precise and detailed observations...... this is treasure chest full of gems and many of them can very rarely be seen in other books, if ever.

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Miranda Martin

Best writing on Gurdjieff philosophy and practice

February 7, 2014

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Have bought several books about the practices Gurdjieff taught his pupils and the objectives of such practices, along with the different experiences of different students in following the practices. I had a hard time getting into the book, but then I read a paragraph by the author where she said it didn't matter if one just opened it at random or started from the beginning or whatever. I had tried starting from the beginning and failed totally, but in fact seemed to very often pick it up at random and then, about half of the time I did that, I would get totally absorbed, miss a meal, be late for work, and so on. So on this account I deemed this book my find of the year. And so it has proved to be. I came to it through reading another book, by Ravi Ravindra, which I found helpful but more of a personal writeup of his own experience with this teaching. This book is more from the viewpoint of one trying to provide information that will throw some light on the practices, including the dances, that Gurdjieff advised and taught, and what kind of results one might fairly expect, thus guidelines. To talk about being isn't easy - just try it sometime! So to talk about any kind of increase in awareness of being, well, either the reader is absorbed in 2 seconds or it remains opaque. If the latter, do come back later; if the former you're gone anyway, call us when you come back!

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W. W. Overwijk

Practical Account of the Gurdjieff Inner Work

August 5, 2011

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This book, published in 2011, contains decades of personal writings of Jeanne de Salzmann (1889-1990), Gurdjieff's principal student and the guardian and proponent of his work after his death. Students of the Gurdjieff work completed the task of compilation and shaped the book in such a way that it reads like a progression of de Salzmann's personal development. The book starts off with a challenging aspect of the Gurdjieff work, which is the need to see how I am asleep, how I am lacking the strength and will to truly do, how I fall short of living like a true, complete human being.

It is easy to skip over this Work foundation and move on to exercises and esoteric ideas of energies and transformation, but throughout the book it becomes clear how often de Salzmann herself went back to this notion of her lack, and staying on front of that lack without looking away. The book is permeated with a palpable force that seems to radiate off the pages.

Jeanne de Salzmann was a tireless, uncompromising seeker after Truth, and her writings transmit some of this intense dedication to living a conscious Life. A true example of the Gurdjieff Work as it is practiced today, she not only preserved it as a Path towards embodying such a Life more and more fully, she also personally demonstrated its efficacy through her living and in this book.

An excellent accompanying book to this one is Ravi Ravindra's Heart without Measure, in which the author describes in a most touching way his personal interactions with Jeanne de Salzmann in her role as teacher of the Gurdjief Work during the last years of her life.

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David Murphy

Five Stars

December 6, 2017

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If you need a teacher and no real ones are available this will help

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Merlene Nieuwoudt

Gurdjieff’s “Fourth Way” is intense but profound.

August 3, 2015

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The book primarily consists of extracts from de Salzmann's notebooks, the author who had a long and close relationship with Gurdjieff. It provides new insight on Gurdjieff’s spiritual teachings—a way of gnosis or "knowledge of being" passed on from remote antiquity as well as answers to the question "What is it to be?". It takes deep digging and reflection to understand its significance which essentially is the effort to be present to our life in each moment but first we must awaken from what Gurdjieff called the state of “waking sleep.”
Gurdjieff respected traditional religious practices, which he regarded as falling into three general categories or "ways": the Way of the Fakir, related to mastery of the physical body; the Way of the Monk, based on faith and feeling; and the Way of the Yogi, which focuses on development of the mind. He presented his teaching as a Fourth Way that integrated these three aspects into a single path of self-knowledge.
The material is organised by themes and is the individual work of self-exploration and self-transformation consisting of 140 monographs which are brilliantly insightful and rich.

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Zanzibar

A groundbreaking book

February 10, 2015

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This is the most useful book I've read about the Work, aside from Gurdjieff's own writings. It is experiential - an incredible glimpse into Madame De Salzmann's practical work. It is a view into the spiritual world of a true mystic, and reveals a number of inner exercises which are usually only received via an oral tradition. A groundbreaking book.

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