![]() Some authors (such as James Moore) argue for 1866. The exact year of his birth remains unknown conjectures range from 1866 to 1877. The name Gurdjieff represents the Anglicized Russian form of the Greek surname Γεωργιάδης ( Georgiádes). Gurdjieff was born to Greek parents Ivan Ivanovich Gurdjieff ( Greek: Ιωάννης Γεωργιάδης) and Evdokia Eleptherovna (Greek: Ευδοκία Ελευθεριάδη), in Alexandropol (modern-day Gyumri), Russian Empire in the Transcaucasus. The International Association of the Gurdjieff Foundations is an umbrella group for the four main organisations: The Gurdjieff Foundation in the USA, with centers in New York and San Francisco, The Gurdjieff Society in the UK, the Institut Gurdjieff in France and GI Gurdjieff Foundation - Caracas in Venezuela with a network of partner foundations in South America. After his death in 1949, the Gurdjieff Foundation Paris was organized and led by Jeanne de Salzmann from the early 1950s, in cooperation with other direct pupils, until her death in 1990 and by Michel de Salzmann, until his death in 2001. Gurdjieff's teaching and practice inspired the formation of many groups organized as Foundations, Institutes, and Societies many of which are now connected by the International Association of the Gurdjieff Foundations (IAGF). Ouspensky referred to it as the " Fourth Way". According to his principles and instructions, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus his student P. Gurdjieff described a method attempting to do so, calling the discipline "The Work" (connoting "work on oneself") or "the System". ![]() ![]() Gurdjieff taught that most humans are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, and composer. ![]()
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