Sunday 21st September – 6pm UK Time
a zoom talk by Gary Lachman
In 1915 a mysterious figure appeared in Moscow and soon gathered a core of devoted followers, students of his strange system of esoteric doctrine and psychological development. This remarkable man Gurdjieff had travelled in the east in search of ancient wisdom, and by his own account had found it. When the journalist and theosophist P.D. Ouspensky came into Gurdjieff’s orbit, one of the most compelling and dramatic narratives of spiritual adventure began, played out against the backdrop of WWI, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. When Ouspensky arrived in London in 1922, he was feted by literary lights such as T.S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley, and when Gurdjieff opened his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France, much of the cultural crème de la crème crossed the Channel to be put through his particularly strenuous mill. What is the Fourth Way and is it true that we are, as Gurdjieff, said, really nothing but machines? Make a super-effort to attend and see. My talk, based on my books In Search of P.D. Ouspensky and Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way, will trace the compelling psycho-history surrounding one of the most influential esoteric teachings in modern times.
Gary Lachman was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, but has lived in London, England since 1996. A founding member of the rock group Blondie, he is now a full time writer with more than twenty books to his name, on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness and the western esoteric tradition, to literature and suicide, and the history of popular culture. Lachman writes frequently for many journals in the US and UK, and lectures on his work in the US, UK, and Europe.His work has been translated into several languages. His website is gary-lachman.com
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